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LYCOPODIAOB^. 



Lycopodiuni annotinum, Linn. 

 July 28. 



FILICES. 



Phegopteiis Dryopteria, Fee. 

 July 28. Kear statiou. 

 Aspidium spiniilosum, Swartz. 



Mouth of Allokuagik River. August 23. 

 Asplenium Filix-fasmina, Beinh. 



July 27. 



MUSGI. 

 Sphagnum, species. 



Near station. August 12. 

 Polytrichum gracile, Menz. 



August 9. 

 Polytrichum strictuni, Banks. (P. juniperinum, Willd., var. strictum.) 



Abundant about statiou. June 10. 

 Hypnum, species. 



Specimens without fruit. Allokuagik River. August 24. 



LICHENS. 



"Cladonia gracilis (L.) Nyl, var. elongata, Fr. forma macroceras." Edward Tnck- 

 .eriuan (in litt.) 



Allokuagik River. August 24. 

 National Museum, June 1, 1885. 



THE GENERIC NAME OF THE PASTINACAS, OR "STING-RAYS. 



By S. GAUMAN. 



Dasifiahis Klein, 1742, Iclitliyol., Miss., iii, 34. 



Walbaum, 1792, Artedi Gen. Pise, .581. 

 Walb., 1793, Kleinii Ichthyol. Enod., 35. 

 Jordan, 1881, Pr. U. S. Mus., 35. 

 Dasyatis Rafinesque, 1810, Car. Gen., 16. 



Raf., 1810, Ind. d'lttiol. Sicil., 49. 

 Raf., 1815, Annal. Nat., 93. 

 Jord., 1883, Bull. 16, U. S. Mus., 47. 

 Trygonobatus Blaiuville, 1816, Bull. Soc. Philom., 112. 

 Trygon (Adans.) Cuvier, 1817, R. Anim., ii, 136,-1829, ii, 399. 

 Geoffroy, 1817, Descr. Egypt, Poiss., plates. 

 Eichwald, 1819, De Selachis Aristotelis, 55. 

 Risso, 1826, Hist. Nat., iii, 160. 

 Geoffroy, 1827, Descr. Egypt, Poiss., 332, 333. 

 Bonap., 1H32-'41, Fauna Ital., Pesci. 

 Miiller & Henle^ 1838, Ann, Mag. N. H., 90,-1841, Plagiost., 158. 



