TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



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Mentha sylvestris ; Geranium rotundifolium ; Melissa Ca- 

 lamintha» 



FOURTH REGION. 



Canaria : Zone of the Canary Pine, from four thou- 

 sand and eighty, to five thousand nine hundred feet, 

 mean temperature 10° cent. 

 Madeira : Zone of Broom and Heath, from three 

 thousand, to five thousand two hundred and fifty feet, 

 mean temperature 10.76° cent. 

 Cytisus divaricatus ; Spartium scoparium ; Erica scoparia 

 (which extends to the highest rocks) ; Pteris aquiiina; Aira 

 caryophyllacea ; Piptatherum paradoxum ; EcHlTJM CANDI- 

 CJNS ; SeMPERVIVUM VILLOSUM ; AlZOON CANARIENSE, 



which, as well as the Cotyledon Umbilicus, may be seen 

 everywhere on the rocks from the second region upwards. 



Note 3. 



We observed the following animals in the vicinity of the 

 equator. Aves : Phaeton sethereus ; Pelicaniis Aquilus. 

 Pisces : Squaliis Carcharias ; Gasterosteus Ductor ; Echeneis 

 Remora ; Exoccetus volitans ; Scomber Thynnus, Pelamis. 

 Insecta : Hydrometra marina nob. Mollusca : Salpa 

 confiata nob., cristata, cylindrica, dipterygia nob.; Physalis 

 pelagica ; Glaucus octopterygius, ventricosus, Draco nob. ; 

 Porpita nuda ? Botellus pellucidus 7iob. ; Medusas sp. div. ; 

 Noctiluca oceanica nob. 



The new Hydromatra, and the new genera and species 

 of Mollusca, will appear in a separate treatise. 



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