REVIEWS. NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 647 
Tae Earty Sraces or Bracniopops. * — The final memoir on 
this subject, of which an abstract by the author is given on p. 385 
vol. iii., of this journal, has at length appeared. After describing 
the different stages of Terebratulina septentrionalis, which are fig- 
ured with many details on two excellent plates, Prof. Morse dis- 
cusses the relations of agen with the Polyzoa, and in 
closing remarks as follows : — 
‘** With propriety may also be suggested a certain parallelism 
between the leading groups of the Polyzoa and the Brachiopods. 
We have forms like Lepralia, attached by one eege of their 
shell, this shell being yeni gtd and exhibiting ,minu inctures, 
which have been com to similar markings in certain T 
pods. So among the Txttar group do we find s attached, as 
, and pecies of Productus; and generally the 
pralia, while on the other hand, such genera as Pedicellina, with 
its long, pliant and muscular stalk, or Loxosoma, with a stalk 
highly retractile, may be compared to Lingula. The limits or in- 
tentions of this paper will not allow any considerations regarding 
the relations of the Brachiopods with the other groups of the ani- 
mal kingdom. I have elsewhere expressed my belief that they 
are gi pelt having nearer affinities with the Vermes; 
and in view of the above relations of the Brachiopods with the 
Pilea. it T interesting to remark that Leuckart has for a long 
so placed the Polyzoa with the Vermes, and in a iga edition of 
he ‘ Outlines of Comparative Anatomy’ Professor Carl Gegen 
wie removes the Poly zoa from the Mollusca, ia jote them 
with the Vermes. 
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
pit BOTANY. 
Cross FERTILIZATION OF PLANTS. — Mr. Meehan exhibited some 
flowers of the common Bouvardia leiantha of the green-houses, 
and of the hardy Deutzia gracilis, and referred to his papers, pub- 
lished a few years ago in the “ Proceedings of the Academy,” on 
practical dicecism in the trailing arbutus (Epigea repens) and 
*On the early stages of Terebratulina septentrionalis. By Edward S. Morse, Ph. D 
(From the memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History). Boston, 1871. 4to. pp. 
10. With two plates. 
