154 Scientific Intelligence. 
it is said to be of inestimable value as a “forage plant.” There 
are notices of it in this Journal, eight or ten years ago: these 
would have supplied the author of this monograph with materials 
for amplifying his paragraph upon the use of Lespedeze : 
17. On the Systematic Position of the Br wéhkipodts by E. S. 
Morse. (From the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, vol. xv, 1873.) 60 pages, with numerous figures.—In this 
memoir Professor Morse has presented, a at some length, his argu- 
ments in hea of uniting the Brachiopods with the Cheetopod 
Worms. His avowed object is “to show that in every point of 
their ieiotaie. the Brachiopoda are true worms, with possibly 
some affinities to the Crustacea, and that they ie no relations to 
the eee save what many other worms may possess in com- 
mon em 
In this and several other valuable papers on the Brachiopods 
the author has presented many facts of great interest and import- 
ance concerning their anatomy and embryology, and for these he 
deserves much credit, _— we accept his theories concerning 
s, or not. A i i 
theory and ar, apm, on this iiatsjout, will not be attempted at 
this time; but as some of his statements are calculated to mislead 
oc.) a cinay = given of the characters in which Worne 
“ce 
vermes,” or to particular groups, like the Annelids. But 
ee se immense divweatt n the anatomy and embryology 
of the numerous groups, of at a ordinal value, if not classes, 
already hire ed to the “ Vermes,” this distinction is of essential 
importance. Thus it would be easy to show that there are excep- 
tions (often very rmumerous) to cout ed feonbra! given as 
‘characteristic of “ Vermes’ Ts ae 
to show that part of the characters given as phon n to Verme 
and Brachiopods are common, likewise, to most other classes of 
the Vermes a form, whose length is much greater in propo 
its breadth than in the Mollusks. - Waky ciate: like ‘piri 
rosyne, certain leeches, and many of the lower “ Vermes, 
like the Planarians, are notable exceptions, — relatively 
circular, the e dorsal and ventral regions so near alike in many 
cases as to be distinguished with titel, and the body never 
flattened laterally,” the reverse being stated of the Mollusks. 
But we find many Annelids that are ae of pee asymmetric eal, 
