VOL. III. JANUARY, 1Q14. NO. 7. 



a«Ik% 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 



In the Woods Walter Louis Hahn, Ph. D. 167 



Critical Notes on New and Old Genera of Plants. — I. 



j. A. Xieiiivland 170 



Priority of Hieroehloa R. M. h'acz.niarck 19S 



Notes on Cleistogamous Flowers of Violets. — 11. 



/. .4. Xicn-a'land 198 



Polygonum Longistylum Small, A Synonym /. .4. Xieiiidand 200 



Our Birds in the Spring of 1913 Brother Alphonsus, L'. S. ('. 201 



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