Note on ,i Specimen of Behiga Catodo-n. 35] 



Pell ea gracilis, Hook. — Banks of Grand River, 

 Fergus. 



Asplenuim Tricjiomanes, L — Poiht-a-Pic, Murray 

 Bay. 



Cystopteris p.i'i.i'.ifki;.\. Bernh. — Orangeville, Cap-a- 

 L'Aigle. 



OSMUNDA CINNAMOMEA, var. FRONDOSA, L. — Cap-a- 

 L'Aigle. 



Camptosorus rhizophyllus, Link. — Philipsburgh, Que. 



Lycopodium Selago, L.- — Cap-a-L'Aigle. 



Lycopodium lucidulum, Midi.x. — Cap-a-L'Aigle. 



Lycopodii.m annotinum, L. — ( Jap-a-L'Aigle. 



Lycopodium clavatum, L. — Cap-a-L'Aigle. 



Lycopodium Carolinian um, L. — Cap-a-L'Aigle. 



Lycopodium complanatum, var. Cham^ecyparissus. — 

 ( !ap-a-L'Aigle. 



Xote on a Specimen of Beluga Catodon, from the 

 Leda Clay, Montreal. 



By Sir William Dawson, F.R.S., Etc. 



Tin's animal, the White Whale or Beluga, once very 

 abundant and still not uncommon in the Lower St. 

 Lawrence, is widely distributed throughout the northern 

 seas. It occurs in Greenland, and the same or a similar 

 species is found on the coasts and in the rivers of 

 Alaska and Siberia. It is only a rare and occasional 

 visitor on the coasts of northern Europe. Ii is one of the 

 smaller of the toothed whales, and subsists on fish, 

 especially cod, haddock, Loche and flounders. lis creamy 

 white colour distinguishes it very markedly from all our 

 other cetaceans. Its favourite abode seems to be the 

 tideways and estuaries of Large rivers, which it sometimes 

 ascends for great distances in search of I I. A stuffed 



