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in the atmospheric air.
(*8) The region of the Niger. See Simmona's Colonial Magazine.
(*9) The Myrmeleon-lion-ant. The term "monster" is equally applicable
to small abnormal things and to great, while such epithets as "vast" are
merely comparative. The cavern of the myrmeleon is vast in comparison
with the hole of the common red ant. A grain of silex is also a "rock."
(*10) The Epidendron, Flos Aeris, of the family of the Orchideae,
grows with merely the surface of its roots attached to a tree or other
object, from which it derives no nutriment--subsisting altogether upon
air.
(*11) The Parasites, such as the wonderful Rafflesia Arnaldii.
(
*12) Schouw advocates a class of plants that grow upon living
animals--the Plantae Epizoae. Of this class are the Fuci and
Algae.
Mr. J. B. Williams, of Salem, Mass., presented the "National
Institute" with an insect from New Zealand, with the following
description: "'The Hotte, a decided caterpillar, or worm, is found
gnawing at the root of the Rota tree, with a plant growing out of its
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