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] here o hallow, that we could not come cloe to the land with our boat, o that we were obliged to wade part of the way in the water.

I followed the coat in a northerly direction, ometimes penetrating a hort way into the forets. As it was low-tide, I walked with great facility along the hore, where I oberved everal mall holes, in the form of a tunnel, made in the and, each of which contained a mall crab at the bottom. Upon drawing out the animal, it oon crawled back into its hiding place, which, as I judge from its analogy with that of the formica leo in our country, erves it likewie as a trap to catch its prey.

I was agreeably urpried by the ingular form of a new pecies of fungus, which grew amongt the moes with which the ground was covered. I named it aeroë, on account of the dipoition of its radii.

Its roots are mall filaments attached to a fungous tubercle, which upports a globular volva, of a whitih colour and gelatinous conitence, marked both within and without with even triæ.

From the centre of this volva proceeds a tipes of a reddih colour, and an almot cylindrical form, hollow throughout, and open at its uperior extremity, which forms a ort of cup, of a fine red