GUANO AUSTRALIS This substance, which has been used for some years past as manure, is found on the coasts of Patagonia and principally on the Lobos Island near ...

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by WILLIAM RADDE, In the Clerk's Office, of the District Court, for the Southern District of New-York. ...

DELPHINUS AMAZONICUS DELPH. DELPHINUS GEOFFROYI (DESM.) PORTUG.: PEIXE BOI This dolphin is from 9 to 10 feet long; its body is large and cylindrical, of a ...

CROTALUS CASCAVELLA We commence the publication of our provings by the symptoms of the Crotalus Cascavella, not so much on account of the importance of the ...

CONVOLVULUS DUARTINUS. (NOBIS) CGNVUL. BLURT. CALONYCTION sPECIOSUM. (D. C.) IPOMEA BONA NOR. (LINN.) CONVOLVULUS PULCHERRIMUS. (WELL.) MORNING-GLORY THIS ...

CERVUS BRAZILICUS (NOBIS) CERV. BRAZILIAN STAG; GUAZOUTI. PORTUG: GOUAZOUPITA. This stag whose forms are extremely fine and graceful, inhabits the forests of ...

CANNA ANGUSTIFOLIA C. ANG. CANNA GLAUCA. PORTUG.: IMBIRI This plant inhabits damp regions, or the borders of brooks. Its stem is erect, cylindrical, growing ...

BUFO SAHYTIENSIS. (NOBIS.) BUFO. BUFO AGUA (LAT.) TOAD THIs toad is found all over America; it inhabits swamps and marshy regions. It is as big as two fists, ...

BLATTA AMERICANA (LAM.) BLATTA. KAKERLAT AMERICANA OAR.) PORTUG.: BARATTA. The blatta americana, which is very common in Brazil, where it inhabits human ...

ARISTOLOCHIA MILHOMENS (NOBIS.) ARIST. ARISTOLOCHIA GLANDIFLORA (GOM.) -ARISTOLOCHIA CYMBIFERA (MART.) SNAKE-ROOT A climbing plant with a glabrous stem; ...

AMPHISBOENA VERMICULARIS AMPH. Tate species moves either backwards or forwards, as occasion may require, and is quite frequent in the woods of Brazil. Its ...