426 General Notes. (July, 
The Mollusks of the Rocky Mountains. By E. Ingersoll. (From Popular Science 
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cents postpaid. For sale by D. H. Eaton, Peotone, Ill. 
Concerning the Fishes of the Ichthyologia Ohiensis. By D. S. Jordan. (Bulletin 
Buffalo Society of Sciences.) 1876. 8vo, pp. 6. 
Quarterly Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Cambridge, Mass. Vol. i. 
No. 1. April, 1876. Published by the Club. 8vo, pp. 28. $1.00a year; single 
nambers, 30 cents. Address H, B. Bailey, 13 Exchange Place, Boston, Mass. 
Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen Island, made in connection 
with the United States Transit of Venus Expedition, 1874-75. By J. H. Kidder, 
ol. 2. Washington, D. C. 1876. 8vo, pp. 122. 
Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas. By G. Brown Goode, Bulletin 5 of the 
United States National Museum. Washington, D. C. 1876. 8vo, pp. 82. 
Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Terti- 
tories. Vol. ii. No. 3. Washington, D. C. June 5, 1876. 8vo, pp. 197-277. 
Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Ar- 
chology and Ethnology. Cambridge. 1876. 8vo, pp. 56. 
Bulletin d’Insectologie Agricole, Journal Mensuel de la Société Centrale d’Agricul- 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.: 
SCHŒNOLIRION Torr. — This is the name given by Dr. Torrey to an 
Asphodelineous, Liliaceous genus, founded on Phalangium croceum 
Michaux, a native of Georgia. Elliott, having what he supposed to be 
Michaux’s plant, transferred it to Ornithogalum, and described the petals 
as white, with a mark of doubt. Later, Scheele, in Linnea, xxiii 
146, published an Ornithogalum Texanum with white flowers, from Lind- 
heimer’s Texan collection. In the Botany of the Mexican Boundary 
Survey, issued in 1859, Dr. Torrey characterized the present genus and 
a species, S. Michauati, referring to it Michaux’s original plant “ floribus 
croceis,” the plant which Elliott had taken for it, and which was now 
known, from Florida specimens collected by Mr. Buckley and Dr. Chap- 
man, to be white-flowered, and likewise the Texan plant which was 
equally white-flowered. The blossoms of these sometimes turning yet 
lowish in drying, Dr. Torrey too hastily concluded that Richard, t! . 
editor of Michaux’s Flora, had mistaken such originally white flowers a 
for saffron-colored, and so changed the specific name in order to "i 
an error while he honored the discoverer. Dr. Chapman, in his South- 
ern Flora, adopted Dr. Torrey’s view, he knowing of a white-flowered 7 
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