Vol. III. JULY, 1913. No. 4. 



AMERICAN MIDLAND 



NATURALIST 



Devoted to Natural History, Primarily 

 that of the Prairie States 



Published by the University of Notre Dame, 

 Notre Dame, Indiana 



J. A. NIEUWLAND, C. S. C, Ph. D., Sc. D., Editor 



CONTENTS 



Certain Violet Names Edivard L. Greene 79 

 A New Midland Violet and Some Notes on "Cleistogamous" 



Flowers /■ ^- Nicuwland 85 



Some Littoral Algae of Puget Sound Chas. O. Chambers 91 



Notes on Our Local Plants. — FV. /. A. Nieuwland 98 

 Migration of Our Birds in the Autumn of 1912 



Brother Alphonsus, C. S. C. 125 



An Older Name for Listera /. A . Nieuwland 128 



New Plants from Various Places. — II. J- A. Nieuwland 129 



Eook Note 133 



Viola arvensis Murr. in Northern Indiana /. A. Nieuwland 134 



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