366 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
Leeds, Butte. 
502. Lesquerella Lunellii lutea A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 54: 149. 
(nom? yi: 
Pleasant lake, Dunsieth, Towner, Minot, Williston. 
PHYSARIA A. Gray, Gen. Ill. x: 162. (1848). 
503. Physaria didymocarpa (Hook.) A. Gray, l. c. 
Vesicaria didymocarpa Hooker, Fl. Bor. Am. I: 49. pl. 16. 
(1830). 
Medora (Bergman). 
BIAURICULA Bubani, FI. Pyr. III. 207. (1901). 
Iberis Dillenius Gen. 6. (1719). Linn. Syst. (1735). also 
GenwPl. 102. (0737)} 292. 41754.) net Diose; 
The Iberis Dioscorides is an entirely different plant. Adanson 
(Fam. Pl. 2, p. 422. (1763) called the Linnaean Genus Jberis by 
the name Arabis Dod. Dodonaeus did not even give this name 
exclusively to plants of this genus. /beris Democritus is Leprdium 
Iberis Linn. Sp. P'. 645. (1753). In any case the I[beris (Dill.) 
Linn is inapplicable. 
(To be continued.) 
THE STORY OF OUR BIRDS THROUGHOUT 
THE YEAR 1015.’ 
BY BROTHER ALPHONSUS, C. S. C. 
It affords me great pleasure to have the honor to address 
the members of the Chicago Ornithological Society. The regu- 
larity with which this society holds it meetings, and the methodical 
way in which its members study bird life are evident tokens of 
the vitality of the association. It seems to me that such manifest 
enthusiasm for so delightful a pursuit as ornithology should 
awaken a similar interest in many others. Indeed it seems to 
me that the influence of those who are so fortunate as to be ad- 
mitted to this society should create a wide-spread desire to share 
the advantages they possess. Why should the Chicago Orni- 
thological Society not feel that it has a great mission to the people 
of this city—to be instrumental in promoting a knowledge of 
) 
‘A paper read before the Chicago Ornithological Society on Tuesday 
Evening, January 4, 1916. 
