168 The Mole Carnivorous. 
1833) as a ‘Phenomenon in vegetable life.’ These trees (Pinus 
palustris) are forty or fifty feet in height. 
In Malva Nuttalloides the petals are bright purple, and not dark 
purple, as I have said, describing from a dried specimen in the Her- 
barium in which the petals had changed their color. This plant is 
not confined to the pine woods, but occurs also in the oaky forests 
of Florida. It is remarkably variable in its leaves, calyx, and pu- 
bescence. I subjom an amended description. 
Malva Nuttaloides. 
Root perennial? stem prostrate or procumbent, branching, 1—2 
feet long; leaves palmate, 3—5 lobed, lobes variable in form and 
length ; petioles long, 3—6 inches; peduncles longer than the pet- 
ioles; interior calyx five parted; exterior calyx three leaved, leaves 
lanceolate or linear, sometimes entirely or partially wanting; petals 
five, about one and a quarter inch long, one inch broad, obtuse, fim- 
briate, bright purple; capsules arranged in a circle, with a flattened 
disk; stem, leaves, calyx, peduncles, and petioles hairy, almost se- 
tose. In Florida and the southern parts of Georgia as far as Haw- 
kinsville on the Ocmulgee. Flowers May—June. ‘The peculiari- 
ties of this plant render it probable that Nuttallca is properly only a 
section of the genus Malva. Should this opinion be confirmed, all 
botanists will readily concur in dedicating some other genus to the 
memory of a man who has done so much in the investigation and il- 
lustration of North American Botany, and who is now periling his 
life in the prosecution of further discoveries. 
At page 315 of this Journal, (July, 1834,) for “‘Peedee River” 
read ‘‘Santee River.”’ At page 314 of the same number, for ‘“ Dr. 
McKee” read ‘“‘ Dr. McRee.” 
Art. XVIII.— The Mole Carnivorous ;* by Saw’ Wooprurr, Esq. 
TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. 
Dear Sir,—Under the article ‘Natural History” in the 17th 
Vol. of your Journal of Science, &c. p. 138, I read with much in- 
terest the ‘‘ Natural History of the Mole.” It appears conclusively 
* The animal which in this country is commonly called a mole, is different from 
that which bears the name in Europe. The former is the Scalops Canadensis of 
Cuvier; the latter is the Talpa Europea of Linneus. In the second edition of 
Cuvier’s Regne Animal, published in 1829, our mole (or shrew mole, as Godman 
calls it,) is classed under the order Carnaria, family Insectivora, which shows that 
