102 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
ms a at feet from the edge of the water. Is this form found in 
other 
ep pa eae from the same rootstock (I think) in two successive 
years, two specimens of xri erythrocarpum Mx., with pistillate flow- 
ers and nine petals. e extra petals took the place of the stamens, and 
. were colored like the others, e were somewhat smaller in size.— —S.N. 
OWLES, Otisco, N. Y. 
HE CEDARS OF LEBANON.— Dr. Hooker makes the following interest- 
ing communication to a recent number of the ** Gardeners’ Chronicle" :— 
“The Rev. M. Tristam, F. L. S., informs me of a most interesting discov- 
ery lately made in the Lebanon, viz., of several extensive groves of cedar 
trees, by Mr. Jessup, an American missionary, a friend d his own, to 
whom he pointed out the probable localities in the interi Of these 
there are five, three of great extent, east of ‘Ain Zabalteh,’ in aes southern 
Lebanon. This grove lately bestes 10000 trees, and had been pur- 
chased by a barbarous Sheikh, from the more barbarous (?) Turkish gov- 
The 
sand trees were destroyed in the attempt. One of the trees measured fifteen 
feet in diameter, and the forest is full of young trees, springing up with 
great vigor. He also found two'small groves on the eastern ga of 
Lebanon, overlooking the Buka'a, above El Medeuk; and two other large 
groves containing many thousand trees, one above ElBaruk, and another 
near Ma'asiv, where the trees are very large and equal to any others; all 
are being destroyed for firewood. Still another grove has been discov- 
ered near Duma, in the western slope of Lebanon, near the one discovered 
by Mr. Tristram himself. This gives ten distinct localities in the Leba- 
non, to the south of the originally discovered nd including it. 
Ehren had already discovered one on the north of that locality, en 
thence northwards the chain is unexplored by voyager or naturalist." 
Quarterly Journal of Science, London. 

ZOÓLOGY. 1 
THE Crow a Birp or Prey.—In confirmation of what Mr. Naumann 
has stated in regard to the crow as a ‘‘bird of prey,” Mr. H. G. Bruckart, 
of Silver Spring, Lancaster County, stated before the Linnean Society, — 
of Lancaster City, at its samay lude. that in his neighborhood it is. 
not an unco ecially not in the spring of the year, 
when they have had a winter's fast, and hens take their young broods 
abroad. Indeed he has known them to venture into barn-yards, à 
carry off young chickens. We know that the corvine appetite craves the 
eggs of other fowls, and d characteristic is only a farther advance in 
ara We have a formidable **Crow Roost” on the Cones- 
ogo, ii die abont d miles south of Tacit City, but with 
g, Mut nue yet learned that they **tease sheep near 






