1879. | Zoology. 189 
_ gardeners should therefore ce n edam plants by sprinkling 
their leaves, seem well establishe 
The Bulletin of Hayden’s U.S. Geological Survey, Vol. 1v, No. 
4, contains a catalogue, by Prof. J. W. Chickering, of Phenogam- 
ou 
summers of 1873 and 1874, in Dakota and Montana, along the 
forty-ninth parallel, by Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A.; with which are 
incorporated those collected in the same region at the same time, 
r. George M. Dawson 
Trimen’s Journal of Botany contains articles on a monandrous 
Cypripedium, by S. L. M. Moore, and a further note on the struc- 
ture of Composites, by M. T. Masters. Braun's article on the 
vegetable remains in the Egyptian museum at Berlin, is translated 
from the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic, the first part appearing in the 
January number. 
The Balletin of the Torrey Botanical Club contains an account 
among other notes, by Prof. Gray, of a sporting Z77ridium ee 
Teh and of an Agaricus with the odor of chlorine, by 
us 
In the Botanical Gazette G. Vasey describes a new Panicum, 
P. littorale from Mobile. J. M. Coulter contributes an article on 
the flora of Northern Indiana. 
ZOÖLOGY.! 
Nore ON THE HAIRY-TAILED MoLE, SCALOPS BREWERI OF 
AUTHORS.— The earliest description of a mole, referable to the 
genus Scapanus and to the species subsequently named “ Scalops 
brewerit by Bachman, is that given by Harlan, Fauna Americana, 
1825, p. 43, under the name of Talpa europea—he wrongly sup- 
posing that it was the common mole of Europe. He does not 
state whether he described an American or a European specimen; 
and the general drift of his remarks indicates that he compiled, 
at least in part, from some staple description of Talpa europea. 
But it is evident that he really had in view an American mole 
which he recognized as distinct, both generically and specifically, 
from our common Scalops aquaticus. 
at this is no other than the Scapanus is shown by the den- 
tal formula of forty-four teeth, which is applicable neither to 
Scalops nor to Talpa ; and the rest of his description is incom- 
patible in no respect with Scalops “breweri,” which so closely 
resembles 7a/pa europea in superficial appearance that it has not 
seldom been mistaken for the latter. That there is no doubt in 
the case is further witnessed by Audubon and Bachman, who 
State (Quad. N. A. 1, p. 219) that “Harlan had described the 
skull of the species we have since described and figured as 
Scalops breweri, having forty-four teeth,” &c. 
In connection with this description, Harlan published William 
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