132 Scientific Intelligence. 
Mr. Ayres remarked, we of those genera of Echinoderms, which 
Mr. Forbes phe as deep sea genera, two or three are found in 
North Amer in water not two yaedred feet deep. Terebratula, 
which has babs generally regarded as only an inhabitant of very deep 
water, and whose structure has been described as admirably adapted 
to the depth at which it has been found, and which Prof. Owen has de- 
monstrated cannot exist at a depth of less than two or three hundred 
faitatesia: exists at Eastport, Me.,in water so shallow that it can be taken 
b e same locality and position, Radiata are found which 
have heretofore been thought to be only inhabitants of deep water. 
Some of Mr. Forbes’s genera are also found in less than ten fathoms o 
water. 
Ill. Borany anp Zootoey. 
1. Salad for in Solitary ; by an Epicure. New York: Lamport, 
Blakeman & Law.—A book which has a very large sale, and is com- 
ended as a m seal of erudition. A chapter in it, w hich treats of curi- 
ous matiers concerning plants, having casually atiracted our attention, 
o it, to Aina negatively, the pee Spi to mor- 
alize eiiviecly. upon any department of nature, or to v felicitous 
illustrations, requires that an author should know Se paitat of the sub- 
ject matter he writes about. The following mai tae are culled from 
a doz zen pears of the book (from p- 185 to aed The Papyrus. of 
Bark, ‘its Sea owing to the Srequent sealing of the bark, is said to 
be Sais seen thi cker than the arm, although it attains a great height.” 
Camphor is said to be distilled * from the roots of a tree, growing in 
Borneo and Sumatra.” ‘\t is the leaves of plants and trees that act 
‘upon the air like human me _ absorbing carbon and evolving vital 
air for animal respiration,’ urious and confusing way of e express- 
ing what is meant. The (Sarees tree at Chapultepec, near the city of 
Mexico, our author affirms to be “one hundred and seventeen feet ten 
inches in girth.” The two latest measurements that we have heard of 
made it ve or 45 feet: but this was several years ago! On reading 
feetick, we perceive that the author has mixed up various famous s Cy- 
presses of Mexico into one salad; and has then applied De Candolle’s 
(or as he writes De Candalle’s) remark on the tree of Santa Maria del 
Tule to that of sa Se epec. Contrary to the rep ground opinions, 
we are told that the Great Chestant es Mou ase was probabl 
measures from way to five fee “ i, grvely a ce.” Our Magnolia 
grandiflora i is said to be a “tro a) plant;” with “leaves from. ere 
to nine feet in length: * beaut white Dicesoies are of like dimen- 
sions.” Truly of such a tree he would have reason to say: ‘itis 
doubiless one vf the ana superb vegetable productions of which we 
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