(General Wot. 157 



A new subgenus for Lepus idahoensis. 



The small rabbit described by Merriam in 1891 (North American 

 Fauna No. 5, p. 76) as Lepux idahoenxi* differs too widely from members 

 of any of the recognized subgenera to be associated with them. It may 

 therefore be regarded as the type of a new subgenus Brachylagus. The 

 characters are as follows: Skull short and deep, the disproportionately 

 large audital bullie and small rostrum (diastema shorter than orbit) pro 

 ducing a strikingly immature effect; supraorbital processes shorter than 

 toothrow, their extremities free; posterior prism of second lower pre- 

 molar and first and second lower molars less than half as large as an 

 terior; ears, legs, and tail short, the latter not perfectly formed. Gerrit 

 8. Miller, Jr. 



Antennaria solitaria near the District of Columbia. 



Although not included in recent works on the flora of the northeastern 

 United States, Antennaria ,wlitaria is entitled to a place there. In May, 

 1899, I found the plant growing in dry, open, deciduous woods near the 

 side of a road a mile or more east of Kensington, Montgomery Co., 

 Maryland, well within the limits commonly assigned to the flora of the 

 District of Columbia. It apparently occupies a small area only, though 

 this year it has spread. The species has been recorded (as Antennaria 

 plant a gini folia ft. monocephala) from the vicinity of 'Philadelphia, Pa., 

 (Torrey and Gray, Fl. N. Am., II, p. 431) and there is every reason to 

 expect its occurrence throughout the Austral zones of the eastern 

 United States. Gerrit #. Miller, Jr. 



Batrachium hederaceum in America. 



Up to the present year, so far as I have been able to ascertain, Batra 

 chium hederaceum (L.) S. F. Gray, has been credited to the following 

 stations and collectors only: Virginia: Hampton ("Chesapeake City"), 

 Ward, 1877, Vaaey, 1878; Norfolk, Ward, 1877, Muir; Dismal Swamp, 

 Chickering, 1877 ; Virginia Reach, Britton & Small, 1893; Newfoundland: 

 Bona Vista Bay, Oxborn, 1879; New Harbour, Waghorne, 1889 and 1890; 

 Quiddy Viddy Lake, Robinxon & Schrenk, 1894. 



The first record by name of station of the introduction of this species 

 from Europe is Dr. Watson's in the sixth edition of Gray's Manual, 

 1890. The second is Mr. ,T. M. Macoun's note (Bot. Gaz. 16: 285. 1891) 

 on the plants collected by the Rev. A. C. Waghorne, assigning to them 

 the record of being the first collected in Canada. If Mr. Macoun had 

 access to the specimens distributed by Mr. H. L. Osborn, he did not give 

 them the first Canadian credit because they were distributed under the 

 name Ranunculus hyperboreus Pursh. 



Dr. Robinson in Gray's Synoptical Flora (Vol. I, Pt. 1, Fasc. 1; 22. 

 189.")) cites Mr. Muir in connection with the station given in the Manual 

 and appends a foot-note naming the above collectors except Messrs. 



