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stars, and despising the minor denizens of the forest.” To ies stars, 
indeed, they must give their odor; for they have none for m Dis- 
coursing of flowerless vegetation, our author states, that Laven yeast 
+. 18 supposed by botanists to belong to this genera of the vegeta- 
ble world ;”—so that, after all, the botany is as good as the gram- 
a sa piece of vegetable morphology, we are told that “ seeds 
are merely leaves preserved in peculiar cerements ;” in respect 
o these coverings a series of statements follows, the logical con- 
nexion of which may perhaps be divin successfui, the reader 
h 
May next attempt to extricate the author’s meaning from the con- 
fused statements respecting the boundary between the vegetable and 
the animal kingdoms. Lastly, the Venus’ Fly-trap is called ‘a native 
rest of the book may be, surely, as to this chapter, the intelligent 
reader will hardly be able a ti 5 se ot one of the mottoes of the 
volume, taken from old Quar 
“The herbal savor gave his sense delight.” 
et us open the book in another place. On p. 92, we read that ‘* pa- 
per is produced from a beautiful fibrous plant, called Linum, or flax, the 
leaf of which i is rotied, and passing through certain processes, becomes 
colton cloth,” &c. Truly, ignorance, however preposterous, is not ne- 
cessarily a sin per se. lis heinousness dopants very much o vies use 
that is made of it. 
2. Lindley: The Vegetable Kingdom; or the Structure, Classifica- 
tion and Uses of Plants, illustrated — the Natural System; with 
upwards of 500 illustrations. hir ition: with ae ret and 
acetone genera. London : Besieged & Evans, aS Roy. 
the science down | to ite time of sli tion are > incorper . Itisan 
cessfully combate 
3. ndolle’s Prodromus.—Our Botanists may be glad to kaos 
that the ves g of the fourteenth volume of this work (to contain the 
Polygonacea, Thymelacee, Proteacee, &c.) has at length commenced. 
Probably the volume cannot be published before the early spring. 
A. G. 
4, Pye ial on the habits of certain Crawfishes, (in a letter 
ee Dr. R. P. Stevens to the Smithsonian Institution.) — While e en ising 
coal mine, sane the banks of Coal Creek, a tributary of Gree. 
River, Bureau Co., ~~ I found innumerable little paths of an Sitetae 
