408 Scientific Intelligence. 
pell-mell together from 60 to 90 feet below the surface in a tunnel 
far from the western shore of the peninsula.” 
. Meek on the shell structure hon some Spirifera—Mr. Meek’s 
sth on this subject, referred to . 262, was read before the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in December, 1865, 
and published in the Proceedings of the Academy, February, 1866. 
Ill BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
¢ sta gto raid _. = sea Martius have bee 
1. Botanical Notices.—Two new parts pe ~ fasciculi) 
ed during 
onsiderable is fase. ‘4, pope 
tius, a ‘penta of andoubted. character, and four others, two of them 
long ago proposed by Martius, which are conceded to be less dis- 
Phoradendron, an Ividium, this being a genus founded by Eichler 
on one Brazilian species and the Cuban Hremolepis pec 
Grisebach , and an n Lh tbrachion. Tn a note we have a syno} 
ago indicated, is not the case in the original Chionanthus. 
fase. 46, Dr. Seubert describes the Styracacew, two species of Pane 
philia and 22 of awe nueva by five plates. : : 
DeCandolle’s Prodromus, vol. xvi, section 2, fase. 2, issued in 
‘iacel, 
aeons &e., akan editor. This im seers vi espe 
cially as to the C oni, a. ag a wide range for commentary, a 
which we may not her ¢the 
No. 2 of the 12th sateue of the 7th series of the Me moirs 0 secupied 
we Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburgh (1868) i 15 OC® Sache- 
pe Schmidt’s Riesen in Amur-lande und aut ie —_ 
umerated ; 
interesting Flora Sachalinensis, Noting the points MOS" aq 
able as respects the relations of this ed or that of the United 
States, we observe that the Japan Thaenetiters is cone a — 
from the North American ; pipiigiet a Grayi fr 
