Welsh Journals

Natural History and Phenomena. 4^7 Market; " re-canvassed " would mean canvass**/ back, or again. 5—That portions of leaves should dare to "strike." Plants thus produced not only live, but return the blow in kind! Is that a striking fact ? Don't say no \ 6—To both, with equal welcome : what was he but a Tadpole at first ? 7 — Thereby hangs a tale. Let A, B, and C represent three plate¬ layers. A tries the Winter mushroom, after showing samples to O. P. " Hasn't had such a supper doesn't know when ! " After " carrying on" for some time, informs B of the agaric, but not of the field for all the world, pro¬ posing a walk to another habitat a mile off. Having filled their basket there, they invite C, a "bad man," (i.e., an invalid!) to supper out of charity, hoping to tempt him to " try a bit o' summat." C getting on too fast a great deal for them, they (after a mutual squint) drop a hint that they are "not reg'lar mushirooms loike, but summat of a fungus." He, concluding that, if they was nobbat frogstools, he was nobbat a jed mon, left off; and ultimately called them and their mushirooms ' • all manner." NATURAL HISTORY AND PHENOMENA. Crustacea, per Saltum. I AM quite as much puzzled which denizen of this fruitful region to select for " the next article" as Horace was when he wrote " Romulum post hos prius, an quietum Pompili regnum," &c. The same voice that asked, in no unfriendly tone, "Are we never to have any thing but bright Beroids ?" might now exclaim against a glut of sea slugs! But in truth my fellow mermen know that each province of this wide realm of creation is too fascinating to quit 6v ^;aX67rco9 for any other; and the poor landsmen must condole with themselves, if they are so insensible to shore attractions as to be soon tired of the agremens of Miranda and Co. But which is to be the next ? The