292 Miscellaneous. 



acutd ; anfractibus 6 convexis, ultimo spird paulb breviore ; aper- 

 turd semiovali ; pariete aperturali medio plied lavi, intrante mu- 

 nito ; columella medio lamellatim truncatd ; peristomate simplice, 

 acuto. 



Long. 12y, diam. 6 mill. 



From the province of Merida, New Granada (Funck). 



19. Balea Funcki, Pfr. Bah testd sinistrorsd, vix subrimatd 7 

 turritd, truncatd, sublcevigatd, fused ; anfractibus {spec, trunc.) 

 5 convexiusculis , ultimo basi rotundato ; aperturd oblongo-semi- 

 ovali, intus fulvd ; plied parietali validd, compressd, columellari 

 obliqud, obsoletd ; peristomate albo, expanso, refiexiusculo, mar- 

 ginibus callo junctis, externo sinuato. 



Long. (spec, trunc.) 14, diam. 4 mill. 



From Chachopo, province of Merida, New Granada (Funck) . 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the Red Corpuscles of the Blood of the Mud-fish (Lepidosiren 

 annectens). By Andrew Smith, M.D., Deputy Inspector-Ge- 

 neral of Hospitals, and George Gulliver, F.R.S., Surgeon in 

 the Royal Horse Guards. 



In the uncertainty as to whether the Lepidosiren is to be classed 

 among Reptiles or Fishes, it is interesting to examine the characters 

 of its blood-discs; and Dr. Andrew Smith having procured some 

 dried specimens of its blood, we have examined them together, and 

 the following are short notes of the results : — 



In shape and structure these blood- corpuscles are the same as 

 those of the naked amphibia, and in size range between the blood- 

 corpuscles of the Siren and of the Triton. The long diameter of these 

 blood-corpuscles of the Lepidosiren is gy^-th, and the short diameter 

 -q iySt of an inch, and the nuclei are 14 1 55 th long and f-fl^th broad : 

 these are the average sizes in vulgar fractions of an English inch. 



Now no blood-corpuscles, so far as we know, of any fish, are so 

 large as these of the Lepidosiren ; while this great size is character- 

 istic of the blood- corpuscles of some of the amphibious reptiles, as 

 was long ago described by Professor Wagner, and may be seen, for 

 comparison, in Mr. Gulliver's measurements of the blood-corpuscles 

 of the Proteus, Siren, and Triton, in his Notes to the edition of 

 Hewson's works printed for the Sydenham Society, and in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society, February 1848, p. 38. 



Filago apiculata, G. E. Smith. 



The Rev. G. E. Smith discovered in Yorkshire a plant to which 

 he gave the above name (Phytol. ii. 575), considering it a distinct 

 species from F. germanica (Linn.). Although favoured with speci- 

 mens by him, I was unable to satisfy myself of its just claims to spe- 

 cific rank. Recently (July 28) I had the pleasure of gathering it 

 near Thetford, close to the station on Redneck Heath of Apera in- 



