A bat new to the United States

96

General Notes.

NEW NAMES FOR TWO RECENTLY DESCRIBED GENERA OP PLANTS*

Through

^{the kindnessofOswald H.} Sargent ofYork,

West

_Australia,

my

^{attentionhasbeencalled tothefactthat}

my

Harperia ^isa

homonym,

Mr.

W.

V. Fitzgerald havingrecentlypublished the

name

fora

new

genus of Baloskionaceae. Hisdescrijition appeared^{in thefirst}

number

ofa

new

journal started in

West

Australia. This _journal, ofwhich _onlyone _i)art seemsto

have

been issued,hasbeen overlooked

by

me,^as

by

the Interna- tional Catalogue of^ScientificLiterature

and

the BotanischesCentralblatt.

Forthe

name

_Tlarperinasubstituteis{proposedsuchas toconformtobotan- icalusageandstilltocarry out

my

^{desire tohonorthecollector,}

^{Roland M.}

Harper. ^Thisgenusbelongs^totheApiaceae^orUmbelliferae.

The name

Doinicl/ia wasused foragenus^ofmosses

more

than twenty- five_year-sago,whichofcourse precludes the use of^itasrecently])roposed

by

^{Mr. C. B. Clark for a} genus ^of Commelinaceae.

The

substitute for this

name

is likewise so chosen as still to

commemorate

the

name

^of Captain

John

Donnell Smith,

who

hasdone such admirable

work

onthe Central

American

llora.

Harperella ^Rose.

Harperia Rose, ^Pro(t. Nat. Mus. 29: 441. 1905, not //arpfnaFitzgerald, Journ.

West

Australian Nat. Hist. Soc. [1]^{: 34.} 1904.

Harperella nodosa Rose.

Harperianodosa Rose, ^Proc.Nat.Mus. 29: 441. 1905.

The

_{type sheet}isNo. 514,914ⁱⁿ the U.S.NationalHerbarium.

Heretoforethis specieshasbeen

known

_onlyfrom twolocalitiesinGeor-

gia. In 1905Mr. Harperdiscovered the plant^attwostations in

Alabama

asfollows:

Rocky

^{bed of}

Town

Creek on

Sand

Mountains near Chavres,

DeKalb

County,

November

24,1905 (No.8).

Rocky

^{bed of LittleRiver} on Lookout Mountain,

DeKalb

County, No-

vember

25,1905 (No. 14).

Neodonnellia Rose.

Donnellia Clark, Bot. Gaz.

33

^: 261._{pi. 11,} not Donnellia Austin,^Bull.Torr.

Club 7: 15. 1880.

Neodonnelliagrandiflora (Donnell-Smith) Rose.

Callesiu grauxlijloraDonnell-Smith,^Bot. Gaz.31^: 125. 1901.

Donnellia gravdiflora C\aiX^,Boi. Gaz.33: _261.?)/. 11. 1902.

—J.

N. Rose.

A BAT NEW TO THE UNITED STATES.

Dr.C.

Hart Merriam

has_recentlysubmitted to

me

^foridentificationa leaf-nosed battaken

by

^Mr.Philip Waughtall ^{in the} Chiricahua

Mount-

ains,eight miles west of Paradise, Arizona,August 17,1904.

The

_speci-

men

(No. 184,442, United States National

Museum,

Biological Survey collection)represents aspecies

and

genus, Chwronycferis ^nic;r(canaTschudi, notliitherto foundintheUnitedStates.

—

GerrilS. Miller, Jr.

*Published with the permission^oftheActingSecretaryoftlieSmithsonianInstitution.