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who immediately ran to his master, Mr. Robertson, exclaiming, ‘I have 
found heather.” Full enquiry into the whole circumstances leads me to 
the belief that the Calluna has not been planted at St. Ann’s, but is a 
genuine native. There is only a small patch of it, not much more than 
RYAN ACTOS. 6.6 de). ts surroundings at t. Ann" $ are most appro- 
priate. Both in scenery and vegetation there is ‘siikiog resemblance to 
the Scotch Highlands. Gelic is the common language, and all “s gen- 
uine manners and customs of the Highlanders are there.” It is interest- 
ing to notice that the Heather appears to be even more restricted in this 
new station than in that at Tewksbury, Mass..—the indigenous character 
here with the rival claimants of the 
2. Icones Muscorum, or Figures and Descriptions of most of those 
Mosses peculiar to Eastern North America which have not been heretofore 
Newfoundland, but is verging to extinction, not being able to compete 
egy soil. 
commonly two pages ‘of letter-press being devoted to each. The detailed 
descriptions are in Latin, as also the explanation of the plates; the ha 
itat and the geueral remarks are in English. The plates represent the 
oss of the natural size, as magnified, and with an ample series of ex- 
miite analyses ; for the most part there are as ma ny as twenty ey Bsa 
h plate. The drawings are placed to the credit of Mr. Au 
vant’s direction. They were engraved by Mr. Wm. Dougal, o 
= who ghee the plates of the Musci of Wilkes’s agi Explor 
Expedition. Probably upon no work of the kind has an equal 
pines of labor, knowledge, and expense been lavished. Only a small 
edition has been printed, “and it is published at a. price ($10 in gold) 
which, however considerable at present, will, it is understood, be ve: feed 
fronr covering the cos 
3. Species Filicum : by Sir W. J. Hooxer. Parts XV an a XVL 
completing the fourth volume “i parts 2 XVIL and XVIII, constituting 
the sass and last etary econd half of the fourth volume an 
. 0 
P. foe aeeibad in this Journal ({2], xxii, pr eae and 
and 
he she recently again described, figured, under the name o 
