184 General Notes. 



such einer Naturgeschichte von Chili, 1786, p. 272), overlooking the fact 

 that this latter name originated with Molina, it appearing in the first 

 (1782) edition of his 'Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili," p. 342, as 

 Lepus viscacia. The name of the Viscacha should therefore be Vizcaeia 

 viscacia (Molina). The authority for the specific name is hence Molina 

 and not Brandis, and the name itself takes the form mscan'a instead of 

 viscaccica. — J. A. Allen. 



A new Helianthus from Florida.* 

 Helianthus agrestis Pollard, n. sp. 



Annual, rather freely branching, about one meter in height; stem 

 many-striate or even sulcate, for the most part quite glabrous: pedun- 

 cles slender, 1-fiowered, hoary-pubescent near the heads, the pubescence 

 gradually thinning below to a few scattered hairs; lower cauline leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 dm. long, tapering below to a short margined 

 petiole, the margins remotely denticulate, hispid with short bristly 

 hairs; blade with a prominent central nerve and two laterals springing 

 from some distance above the base, both surfaces glabrous except along 

 the primary nerve beneath: heads 5 to (i cm. in diameter, the rays about 

 10 to 12, bright orange-yellow; involucral bracts lanceolate, attenuate, 

 slightly scabrous, the margins sparsely ciliate: achenes narrowly oblong. 



Type in the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, (sheets Nos. 370175 and 37017G) collected on shelly land between 

 Lake Reresford and the St. Johns River, Volusia County, Florida, July 

 12, 1900, by A. H. Ciirtiss, The collector observes that the plant is ten- 

 der and rather succulent, an unusual character among the species of 

 Helianthus. 



The new species had been previously collected by A. P. Garber in 

 Levy and Manatee Counties in 1877. Mr. Merritt L. Fernald, of the 

 Gray Herbarium, who had independently reached the conclusion that 

 the plant was undescribed, courteously placed at my disposal the notes 

 he had prepared, from which I cpiote the following: "Mr. Garber's 

 plant was included by Dr. Gray in his II. Florida nui^, but it is very dis- 

 tinct from that perennial species, which must rest upon Palmer's plant 

 No. 283 of the 1874 collection, first cited by Dr. Gray.— a plant well 

 matched by other specimens from Chapman and Curtiss, No. 1437." — 

 Charles Laim Pollard. 



*Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



