150 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
those collected by Professor Atkinson or his associates and deposited in 
the herbarium of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the material col- 
lected by G. W. Carver of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Insti- 
tute in Macon County, and the species reported upon by the authors 
in later papers from material collected in 1895 and subsequently. 
The following list of the Alabama fungi has been kindly furnished 
by Prof. F. S. Earle. The writer takes this occasion to express his 
gratitude for this valuable contribution to his catalogue of Alabama 
plants. 
Introductory to this list Professor Karle makes the following remarks: 
In the Preliminary List of Alabama Fungi, of Underwood and Earle, published 
during the summer of 1897! 1,110 species were noted as occurring in the State, and the 
distribution by counties was given. At about the same time Professor Atkinson 
published his list of 644 species, which appeared as Bulletin, Vol. 3, No, 1, of the 
Cornell University. Two hundred and thirty-two of the species were not given in 
Bulletin 80. 
These two publications are the basis of the following list, though it contains a 
number of additional species not reported in either of them, 
The nomenclature adopted is essentially that of Engler & Prantl, Die Natuer- 
lichen Pflanzenfamilien. This necessitates the change for good reason of a few of 
the Saccardian generic names that were used in the above publication, The sequence 
of orders and families is that of Engler & Prantl’s work, the genera and species 
being arranged alphabetically. 
To this the writer has to add that, in order to bring his list into 
accord with the plan adopted in the present work, the genera had also 
to be systematically arranged according to the work of the above 
authors, and the authority for each genus had to be given. Further 
have been added citations for the more recently described species,’ the 
naines of collectors in Alabama, and the distribution of species by 
States, as far as could be ascertained from the various State floras, 
occurrence in Europe being also noted. 
Division EUMYCETES. Fungi. 
Class PHYCOMYCETES. 
Order CHY’TRIDIALES. 
Family SYNCHYTRIACEAE. 
SYNCHYTRIUM De Bary & Woronin. 
Synchytrium decipiens Farlow. 
Ala. Bull. 185.3 
On Falcata comosa. Dekalb County, May, 1896 (Underwood § Earle). 
‘This Bulletin was dated April, 1897, but was not issued till about July 1. 
2Except when the publication occurred in either the Alabama or the Cornell 
Bulletin, 
3“ Ala, Bull.” denotes Bulletin No. 80 of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment 
station, referred to in the introduction. 
