MISCELLANY. 
329 
“'Family fGenus Paradoxurus. 
Hemigaiidce. (-Ambliodon. 
These have been known since 1814, but M. Jqurdan, of Ligon, has recently 
examined them in the museum of that place, the results of which we now give. 
— -Athenoeum, as quoted in the Cheltenham Chronicle , April 19, 1838, communi¬ 
cated hy Peter Bylands , Esq. 
Mode of repelling the Wolf.— -A few days ago* a boy ten years old, was 
gathering sticks in a wood near Sauqueville, in the Seine Inferieure, when he 
observed a she Wolf carry one of her cubs in her mouth into some bushes, and 
hide it. As soon as the animal had departed, the boy went and took the cub, 
but the mother heard him and returned upon him. The bold boy, instead of 
being intimidated, made a stand, and drew his knife, which he flourished in the 
eyes of the assailant, who, either from fear, or, which is more probable, from care 
of her remaining young ones, retreated and suffered her antagonist to carry off 
the prize. For this trait of courage the mayor of his commune has given him a 
reward of 30fr .—Bath Post, April 28, 1838. 
Arrow Head.— The head of an arrow, made of iron, and from its singular 
shape appearing to have belonged to some of the savage tribes of Africa, has been 
found in the body of an Eagle which was killed in Laconia.— Athenceum, quoted 
in Chelt. Chron ., Ap. 19, 1838, communicated hy P. Bylands , Esq. 
BOTANY. 
Numerical Estimate of the British Flora. —Having occasion to make an 
estimate of the British Flora, in connection with a paper which I am preparing 
for our Natural History Society, it has occurred to me that it might be both 
useful and interesting to the readers of The Naturalist. The Phcenogamous 
plants are taken from the Flora of Berwick , as quoted in Mr. Watson’s Geo¬ 
graphical Distribution of British Plants; the Ferns and their allies from Mr. 
Francis’s work, and the remaining orders from the second volume of Sir W. J. 
Hooker’s British Flora . Of course the latter orders are not so complete or 
numerous as they will be when the various naturalists who have been investi¬ 
gating those tribes, since the publication of the last-mentioned work, shall have 
made known their discoveries. I believe that the Rev. M. J. Berkeley has 
published descriptions of some new genera and species of Fungi in the Magazine 
of Zoology and Botany which I have not included in this estimate. 
Polypodiaceee , 35 ; Gleicheniacece , 8; Osmundacece , 1; Ophioglossiacece 2 ; 
Lycopodiacece , 7; Marsileaceoe , 1; Equisetaceee , 8; Musci , 309; Hepatic fflj 93; 
Lichenes , 420 ; Characece*, 8 ; Algce^ 516; Fungi-f , 1,383. The great division 
* This has most probably been included in the estimate of phsenogamous plants. 
f Agaricus alone contains 333 species; Peaisa has 106; and Sphceria 201. 
