[3] This species I have ascertained to be identical with F. affinis, Cambess.; F. pyrifolia, Presl.; and F. radicans, Miers.
[4] Vide Hooker’s ‘Journal of Botany,’ vol. iv. p. 5.
[5] Dr. Parigot appears, however, to have found coal abundantly in the island of Santa Catharina, in the south of Brazil. He was employed by the Government while I was there, to explore that country for coal, and in a pamphlet which he published in 1841; entitled “Memoria sobre as Minas de Carvao de Pedra do Brazil,” he mentions a bed about three feet thick, of considerable extent; but as nothing has since transpired on the subject, it may be doubted whether this coal is of any useful quality.
The coal which Spix and Martius inform us exists near Bahia, Dr. Parigot found to consist of beds of lignite; and the probability is that they are equivalent to that which I found at Crato.
[6] The fishes were found by M. Agassiz to be all new species, and he has described them in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for January, 1841. I also possess, from the same rocks, specimens of two species of very minute bivalve shells, a single valve of a Venus, and casts of a univalve shell, all apparently new.
[7] Some of the specimens I obtained at this place were of that species which M. Agassiz has done me the honour to name Cladocyclus Gardneri, and are about a foot in depth; one, which from its great size, I was obliged to leave behind, was still deeper.
[8] Echites tenuifolia, Mikan. Dipladenia tenuifolia, var. puberula, Alph. D.C., Prodr. 8. p. 482.
[9] See Professor Morren’s paper “On the production of Vanilla in Europe” in Taylor’s Annals of Natural History, vol. iii. p. 1.
[10] Echites virescens, St. Hil., Dipladenia Gardneriana, Alph. DC.
[11] Hooker, Journal of Bot. Vol i. p. 215.