104 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
Corresponding Species Found in the Drainage of the 
Upper Ohio. 
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Notes on Alabama Plants. : 
BY W. WOLF, 0. S. B. 
A New Monotropoid Plant. 
Lis 
About the first of November, 1901, my attention was drawn 
to the discovery of a plant by Brother Norbert Knapke, who 
detected it while he was raking leaves in the forest of the St. 
Bernard College estate, Cullman County. The man was very 
enthusiastic about the plant, never before observed by him. 
He described the plant as leafless, with bell-shaped flowers 
almost ready to expand. At that time my interest in plant life 
was very limited. At the man’s urgent request, however, I 
finally consented to accompany him to the habitat of the plant. 
Having reached the place, he removed the covering viz., fallen 
leaves of successive seasons, and exhibited a fine group of 
about a dozen scapes. These scapes were in excellent state 
and the flower buds far advanced. To all appearence it 
seemed but a question of a few days or possibly a week until 
the plant would be in full bloom. Having seen the plant, I 
was now easily induced to repeat the visit after a few days. 
In those days, the stock law was not in force, in this section 
of the state, and this accounts for the loss of the plant. 
On our next visit we found the whole group of plants up-— 
