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sepal. From these facts, he thinks the Bananiers should be re-united 
with the Balisiers, under the family name of Musacez.—Annales des Sci- 
ences Naturelles, June 1829. 
Sur une machoire inferieure d’Antracothérium trouvée dans les grés tertiaires 
dela Limagne.e By MM. L’ABBE CroizET and JOBERT. 
A description of some bones which have come to the Garden of Plants since 
the publication of Cuvier’s great work, in which he describes three spe- 
cies of Antracotherium from the lignites of Liguria, and the fresh water 
deposits in the environs of Agen. 
The present bones come from the tertiary sandstones which alternate with 
the mar! and shale formations of Limagne. 
It belonged to the greatest known species of the genus Antracotherium, 
and approximated to the rhinoceros and daman, by the simple configu- 
ration of its inferior molar teeth: it has also in the number and disposi- 
tion of its incisives, the oblique direction of its canine teeth, and in the 
arrangement of its grinders, a striking resemblance to the pig; whilst 
the apophysis, situated on the external side of the inferior maxillary 
bone, as well as the direction of the ascending branch, seems to indicate 
a kind of passage to the hippopotamus. 
This, then, was a true pachydermatous animal. Contemporary with the 
Anoplotherium, Lophiodon, and Paleotherium, it was one of the greatest 
mammifere of the tertiary epoch, and it lived on the borders of the 
great lakes, where those formations were deposited which preserved its 
spoils. With it, other herbivorous, gnawing, and carnivorous animals, 
birds, and reptiles, which the authors intend describing, peopled the 
mountains and shores of Auvergne. At that era, no doubt a rich vege- 
tation covered the country. It was the fourth period of the fossil vege- 
getation of Adolphe Brongniart. 
The volcanoes had not yet burst forth, *—Jbid. 
Note sur une nouvelle Espece de Mais. . By Mr. Matrureu Bonarovus. 
The maize or Turkey corn comes originally from South America, and has 
been grown in Europe from the beginning of the 16th century. It pre- 
sents such numberless varieties, that agriculturists cannot agree upon 
their nomenclature, while botanists refer all of them to the species Zea 
Mais, Lin. whose type in its natural state is unknown to us. 
In cultivating this plant, with a view to ascertain the comparative merits 
of these varieties, Mr. Bonafous was led to distinguish a plant brought 
over some years back from California, which he proposes to designate 
by the name of Zea hirta, “ foliis hirtis et dependentibus ; spiculis mas- 
culis sessilibus diandris triandrisve ; antheris subaureis.”—J0id. 
Des Formations Jurassiques dans le sud-ouest de la France. By Mr. Du- 
FRENOY. 
The ancient mountains of the centre of France, extending from Burgundy 
to High Languedoc, are surrounded on all sides by a band of Jura lime- 
stones ; and these formations admit of the four great divisions which. 
have been observed in the analogous deposits in England and in the 
north of France; and the divisions are marked by beds of clay and 
marls. The lowest of these divisions would be constituted by the lias, 
comprising a great part of the country contained between the Rhone 
and the mountains of Ardeche. The oolitic formations constitute a zone 
which would be contained in a line which would join Cahors, Angou- 
leme, and Rochefort, and another which would pass by Figeac, Poitiers, 
and the sands of Glonne. Some of the numerous subdivisions of the 
English geologists, are not met with in this part of France, and some 
fossils are in a rather different position. From what we have been able 
to gain from this paper, we find the following succession of beds, the in- 
ferior oolite lying indifferently on lias, or on the first-mentioned beds and 
the marls, with Gryphea virgulata, dividing them from the iron and 
green sand formations. 
* Our readers will remember, that there are two tertiary formations in Au- 
vergne, one below the volcanic products, and the other above them. 
