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branched, flowers large, pale red ; leaves numerous, rather small, 
on petioles 6 lines to an inch long ; under surface greenish white, 
and covered with a dense, soft, woolly pubescence. A well de- 
fined species; described from specimens received from Maj. 
LeConte, who collected them in the southern part of Georgia. 
Preris ALABAMENSIS (7. sp.): frond pinnate ; leaflets alternate, 
linear-lanceolate ; pinnule alternate, oblong-lanceolate, terminat- 
ing abruptly at the base, sessile, generally auricled on the upper 
basal margin ; stipe and rachis smooth, black.—Frond 4-6 inches 
long, 2-3 broad, with an oblong-lanceolate outline ; easily distin- 
guished from other species growing in the United States, by its 
auricled pinnule. 
Grows in tufts on limestone rocks, that form the banks of the 
Tennessee River, at the foot of the Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 
PuHLox GLutinosa (7. sp.) viscid-pubescent ; leaves oblong-lan- 
ceolate, mucronate ; divisions of the calyx long, setaceous; tube 
of the corolla twice the length of the calyx; flowers bright red 
or scarlet.—Stem simple, erect, about 12 inches high; whole 
plant covered with a glutinous pubescence. Differs from P. aris- 
tata in its simple, erect stem; bright red or scarlet flowers, and 
its leaves are also broader as well as mucronate. Phlox aristata 
has many assurgent stems from the same root ; this species rarely 
if ever more than one. 
Hab. Pine woods, Black’s Bend, Wilcox Co., Alabama: May. 
Art. XX.—Ornithichnites of the Connecticut River Sandstones 
and the Dinornis of New Zealand. 
Ir is with great pleasure, not unmingled perhaps with some 
pride, that we present to our readers the following correspondence 
between Dr. James Deane, the original observer of the Ornithich- 
nites, (so well and boldly described by Prof. Hitchcock, ) and Dr. 
Mantell of England, to whom we had the pleasure last summer 
of transmitting a very full and beautiful series of these tracks 
collected by Dr. Deane, and accompanied by the letter which 
follows. 
The greatest scepticism has existed in England in relation to 
the truth of Prof. Hitchcock’s and Dr. Deane’s inferences from 
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