470 Scientific Intelligence. 
must replace that of Y. Treculiana of Carriére, the latter being 
a name published without character, in 1858, the former described 
and figured in 1860, in the Botanical Magazine. The prince of 
Yuccas must be Vacca baccuta, which, in its variety australis, 
in diameter, with ten or a dozen branches,” or sometimes reaches 
to even fifty feet of elevation, according to the late Dr. Gregg, 
although the most an ern form o it is almost stemless. Its 
pulpy fruits are “savory, like dates,” are eaten fresh by both 
aa and Indians, ay are cured by the latter for winter provi- 
They also make a stew of ‘the flower-buds and flowe rs, 
whigh Dr. Palmer found to be pleasant and iouHaneHe: The seeds 
are said to be actively purgative. The fibers of the leaves are 
used for cordage, the trunks for palings, or are riven into slabs 
sige covering of huts, and the tender top of the stem is roasted 
an ten 
Professor Riley’s curious paper upon the mutual relations of 
Yuecas with Pronuba, a Tineideous moth that does the wee of 
paltinaton, will be read with interest. 
some ribiibhs ble Forms of Animal Life from the Grdihe 
Deeps off the Norwegian os partly from posthuanorts manu- 
Crt of the late Profess r Dr. Michael Sars; by GEORGE 
. nov.); of Ce Monkees Dentaliu ile, Triopa incisa, 
Gonitolis typica ; of Annelida, Uinbetlisytlis Fascia (gen. nov.), 
Paramphinome pulchella (gen. ead ) nthozoa, Mopsea 
borealis, Fungicyathus ragilis oe LANE f Spo ongi, Tricho- 
stem 
nov.), Hyalonema longissimum. 
t named species has ‘been found during the two past 
summers on our own coast, at moderate depths (see el 440), and 
Cladorhiza abyssicola was dre ged in the deeper parts of the 
Gulf of St. Pawrecs last year, by Mr. Whiteaves, who sent me a 
specimen for pe ghey agreeing in size and form ek the 
enus tinder t e of Chor se beasts (op. cit. pp. 187, 188, 
ofa 36), though he ated (p. 49) that he had Pagunnined the types 
Sars’ spec 
* Depths of the beg hy ©. Wyville Thomson, 1873, - 112. The species figured 
oe Thomson (p. 1 45) as Chondrocladia virgata is stouter and less branches 
n 0. poe ate is probably a distinct pat It should, therefore, be 
called Cladorhiza virgata 
