206 
Scientijk Intelligence. 
Mainland. In a former N umber (vol. iii. p. 100.), we were enabled 
to describe a similar occurrence at Skeill, on the north-west of 
Pomona, and to add that the trees evidently belonged to the 
pine tribe. There can be no doubt, therefore, that in former 
ages the Islands of the Deucaledonian Sea were clothed with 
wood ; and that the trees consisted chiefly of some species of 
fir, the hazel and the birch. 
20. Discovery qf the Linnoea Bm'ealis in Northumberland . — 
The Linnoea borealis was found wild, growing luxuriantly in 
long runners, and covering a space of between twenty and thirty 
square yards, in an old fir plantation, near Catcherside, about 
three miles north of Wallington, Northumberland, in the be- 
ginning of September last. 
21. Sternhei'g^s Flora of a Former World. — The first fasci- 
culus of Graf Sternberg’s Flora of a I^ormer World has been 
published at Leipzic. It contains thirteen figures of different 
unknown trees, of which many belong to the family of palms. 
All the genera enumerated in this valuable work, are met with 
in the coal-fields of Scotland and England, and we have 
observed one of them in a piece of sandstone brought from 
Melville Island by the discovery ships. The Calamythis 
pseudo-bambusia, figured in Table xiii. Fig. 3. is so com- 
pletely alike in the jointed arrangement of its stem, &c., to 
the palmffi figured in 2. 5. and 6. in the Travels of Prince 
Newied in Brazil, that although the species cannot be deter- 
mined, there is a perfect resemblance in the generic characters. 
The work is to be continued in fasciculi, if the })resent be well 
received. We have no doubt that naturalists every where will 
encourage a publication which promises so well, and which treats 
of objects so interesting to the geologist and the botanist. 
22. Plants and Animals living in the Water qf the Hot- 
Springs of Gastein.—A species of Ulva, named thermalis, 
grows and flourishs in the water of these springs, in a tempera- 
ture of about 117° Fahrenheit; and it is said some ferns and 
several mosses grow in the fissures of the rocks out of which the 
hot water springs. We are further informed, that a land shell, 
the Limneus pereger of Drapernaud, thrives in the water of 
these springs, and at the same temperature as the Ulva therma- 
