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Excerpta Botanica. 



scription, are not " perfectly similar to those of Perameles 

 and from these discrepancies I should have been induced to 

 consider the animal under consideration a distinct genus from 

 that described by Mr. Ogilby, if it had not very accurately 

 agreed with Sir Thomas Mitchell's copy of his figure. 



Mr. Gould, who examined the specimens in the Australian 

 Museum at Sidney, informs me that he believes it is very 

 different from the one here described, and has longer legs. 



Ch^eropus castanotis. 



Brownish gray, beneath white, sides brownish. Head gray, with 

 intermingled black hairs ; whiskers black, rigid. The ears two-thirds 

 the length of the head, broad, thin, rather coriaceous, covered at the 

 base and internally with short, close-set, rufous hairs, naked and black- 

 ish at the tip externally. Fur soft, lead-coloured, with longer black- 

 tipped hairs on the back, and rufous-tipped hairs on the sides ; outer 

 side of the thighs and legs covered w r ith soft hair ; the feet covered 

 with short, close-pressed hair, rufous from the heel to the base of the 

 middle toes, and the rest brownish white. Tail with white adpressed 

 hairs, with a central black stripe along the upper surface, becoming 

 paler and ending in a ridge of elongated brownish white hairs over 

 the tip. Inhab. the scrub near the Murray : the Hon. Capt. G. Grey. 

 Length of body and head, 10 inches ; of tail, 3 J ; ears, 1 J ; of head, 



; of hind foot, 2 \ ; from the tip of the nose to the eye, 1 \. 



Capt. Grey, in a letter dated July 15, 1841, observes, "A man 

 I have out collecting had obtained a specimen of a marsupial 

 animal with cloven feet, which, as far as I can understand the 

 description, is nearly allied to the Chceropus ecaudatus of Mr. 

 Ogilby, and yet differs from it in several particulars." And 

 further, " since writing the above, my collector has come in 

 from the Murray, and 1 have sent home the animal resembling 

 Chceropus ecaudatus of Mitchell, but which differs from it in 

 several particulars ; amongst others, it has a tail and a very 

 handsome one. It inhabits the scrub near the Murray river." 



British Museum, Feb. 4, 1842. 



VII. — Excerpta Botanica, or abridged Extracts translated 

 from the Foreign Journals, illustrative of, or connected with, 

 the Botany of Great Britain. By W. A. Leighton, Esq., 

 B.A., F.B.S.E., &c. 



No. 8. Revisio Populorum. Auctore Eduardo Spach. (Ann. 



des Sc. Nat. t. xv. p. 28.) [Extracts so far as relating to 



the British species.] 



Sectio I. Leuce, Reichb. 



Rami ramulique cylindrici ; novelli (prsesertim surculi radicales) 

 tomentosi, v. velutini, v. pubescentes. Folia ramularia ssepissime 

 latitudine longitudinem sequantia v. subecquantia, petiolo longo, gra- 



