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These shore trout, as I call them, seem to be a distinct species, differing in many respects from the other trout of the lakes or streams.

This is the only really hardy species of the genus, for though the rosy-purple flowered A. floribunda from Mexico has stood for several years uninjured in the South of England, it is not to be relied upon.

Scott, in the preface, tells how 'the first stanza of Cunmor Hall had a peculiar species of enchantment for his youthful ear, the force of which is not even now entirely spent.'

THOUGH THE HOOF IN THE HOG is, as a general rule, cloven, there are several remarkable exceptions, as in the species native to Norway, Illyria, Sardinia, and formerly to the Berkshire variety of the British domesticated pig, in which the hoof is entire and uncleft.

This is one of the handsomest species, of low, spreading habit, and blooming freely about midsummer.

Fossils of three other extinct species of crocodiles have also been found in India.

Creeping liverworts are here also in abundance, and several rare species of fungi, exceedingly small, and frail, and delicate, as if made only for beauty.

It is a desirable species, but suffers from our climate.

Onion, like the Leek, Garlic, and Shalot, belongs to the genus Allium, which is a numerous species of vegetable; and every one of them possesses, more or less, a volatile and acrid penetrating principle, pricking the thin transparent membrane of the eyelids; and all are very similar in their properties.

cinnamon-tree (Laurus Cinnamomum) is a valuable and beautiful species of the laurel family, and grows to the height of 20 or 30 feet.

In connection with the myths of plant life may be noticed that curious species of exotic plants, commonly known as "sensitive plants," and which have generally attracted considerable interest from their irritability when touched.

This is, perhaps, the most ornamental species in cultivation, and certainly the commonest.

The complete development of these characters is exhibited in northern species, and it has been beautifully shown that as we go southward there is a strong tendency to diminished size; toward smaller antlers and reduction in the number of tines; to smaller size, and finally complete loss of the metatarsal gland on the outside of the hind leg; and to the assumption of a uniform color throughout the year, instead of a seasonal change.

[Illustration: MUSHROOMS.] VARIETIES OF THE MUSHROOM.The common mushroom found in our pastures is the Agaricus campestris of science, and another edible British species is A. Georgii; but A. primulus is affirmed to be the most delicious mushroom.

In the typical species the flowers are pink or flesh-coloured, and produced in January and February.

" From this point the face of the country was covered by a low, scrubby growth of mesquite, interspersed with magnificent specimens of the Cerus Grandes, a remarkable species of cactus, called by the Indians Petahaya, which grows to the height of forty or fifty feet, and measure from eighteen to twenty inches in circumference.

This is a compact, neat species, and well suited for alpine gardening.

A deciduous species, which has white or rosy-white, sweet-scented flowers.

They were of the old magnificent species, bearing in beauty and majesty about the same relation to the Thames swan which that does to the goose.

Oat and rye grasses were abundant, with plenty of saltbush; at 9.10 crossed to the right bank, and steered 220 degrees to an abrupt headland on the north side of the valley, which was here about two miles wide; the soil a stiff brown loam, with rounded fragments of granite, flinty trap, and quartz, resembling in appearance the French millstone burr; the grass improved, being chiefly of perennial species.

Vaucheria has two or three rather doubtful marine species assigned to it by Harvey, but the fresh water forms are by far the more numerous, and it is to some of these I would call your attention for a few moments this evening.

The doctor contributed an Alligator, some two feet six inches long; another officer, a curiously-marked Ant-eaterof a species unknown to me.

A neat little species, of dwarf, compact growth, from the Yunnan district of China.

Besides the common honey-bee there are many other species herefine mossy, burly fellows, who were nourished on the mountains thousands of sunny seasons before the advent of the domestic species.

A pretty, half-hardy species, growing about 6 feet high, with slender branches, and shining-green leaves with bright red stalks.

271 adjectives to describe  specie