ae THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
° 1912-13 nS 
Dec. Jan. Feb Total 
Blue Jay 10 er 9 35 
Crow 7 2 20 51 
Song Sparrow I oO fe) I 
Chickadee 5 oO fo) 5 
Snowbird 12 10 12 34 
Downy Woodpecker 4 6 zg 13 
Brown Creeper 2 fe) I g 
Northern Shrike I fo) I 2 
White-breasted Nuthatch re) V2 17 39 
Hairy Woodpecker fe) I fe) I 
Tree Sparrow oO 2 I 3 
Herring Gull fe) I fo) I 
Snowflake o o 3 3 
Bluebird fe) fo) I I 
Total number of species seen in four winters, 23. 
NOTES ON OUR LOCAL PLANTS.—X. 
BY J. A. NIEUWLAND. 
Family 76. SILIQUOSAE Linn., Phil. Bot., 34 (1751). 
Also Ray, Meth. PI., 119 (1681), Morison, Caesalpinus, in 
part. Cruciferae B. Jussieu, Hort. Trianon, (1759), A. Jussieu, 
Gen. 67 (1789), DeCandolle, Syst. 11, 139 (1821), Prod. I, 131 
(1824). Cruciformes Pontedera. ; 
EROPHILA DC. .Prod..1,.172 (2824), Syst. IT, 356 Geseun 
Draba Linn. Syst. (1735), Gen. 194 (1737), 294 (1754). Draba 
Dillenius, Gen. 122 (1719) in part. Gansblum Brunfels, Herb. 
Viv. Ic. (1531) also Adanson Fam. des Plantes, II, 420 (1763). 
(Name not Latin). 
Erophila verna (Linn.) E. Mey., Gartenfl. Deutsch. ed. 4, 35. 
Erophila vulgaris DC. Syst. 1. c., Draba verna Linn., Sp. PL, 
642 (1753). Common everywhere very early in spring. 
TOMOSTIMA Raf., Neogenyton, 2, (1825). 
Drabella Bubani Fl. Pyr., III, 197 (1901), in part, Draba 
Linn. |. c. in part. Not Draba Dioscorides which is Lepidium 
Draba Linn. 
Tomostima caroliniana (Walt.) 
