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eye; seit extend s from Missour 
It is worth noting that all those ie nea ned enumerated above, mià i 
already in the seedling plant a few months old. During my absenceint 
Europe for the next twelve months, Professor A.Gray, of Cambridge, has 
kindly offered his assistance in communicating with those who wish ® 
assist me, and letters directed to me, at St. Louis, Missouri, will be for 
warded to me.—I. G. E 
THE CORALS AND STARFISHES OF BRazIL.*— But little is known otie 
shores of Brazil, and ge their discovery by Professor Hartt, so 
cally related by him in the NaruraList, was it ever known that there 
were reefs of coral on mothe coast. Professor Verrill here gives us 
i 
those of ee a et noi cea remarks that 
ute ap a the — with few exceptions, 4 
ar as kno 
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be re toca; all the y anata groups of islands having pyar paer forms. 
ninpderag remain in 

nger time dur ing 
Viti Hallinan int eee 4a 

THE ‘Reon OF EVERGREENS. “By Josiah ooma author T ; 
nished, under the above modest title, a book than which none 
e o 
ence up 
fer, rather than an excuse for “intruding his views and experi 
the public.” 
Mr. Hoopes has long been favorably known as a successful ar 
turist, and as especially successful in growing the Coniferæ. 
moreover, been a pupil of the late, lamented Dr. et 
memory the volume is dedicated. With these homer” ol 
we might reasonably expect vonistilang good. 
expectations to be well founded. 
Up to this time no ular work on the subject, ems 
plying a popular want. It is more; for on its pages 
valuable to the man of science, along with some petit 
are open to his criticism. The views of classification eir 
may not accord with those of Parlatore and Engelmann. 

* Notice of the Corals and Echinoderms collected by Professor C. F. Hee of 
Reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, a 8vo, T 3 Notice of a Colleen A. 
fr Paz, Lower California, with Descriptions of a New Genus. By sail 
me April, 1868. With Pyrola (From the pediam of 

