28. 
the short internodes, narrowly linear to filiform, rigid, scarcely +, 
wide, acute, deeply resinous-punctate, the margins revolute ; 
branches alternate ; upper leaves reduced to subulate bracts ; in- 
florescence, involucral bracts, and achenium as in the typical form. 
Upper division of the coast pine belt. Dale Co. Dr. Eugene 
A. Smith. August, 18go. 
Kouunia Kunnia (Gaertn.) 
Critonia Kuhnia Gaert. Fr. & Sem. 2: 411. 1788-91. 
Kuhnia Critonia Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 1773. 1804. 
Kuhnia paniculata Cass, Dict. 24: 516. 1821. 
Kuhnia eupatorioides var. gracilis T. & G. Fl.N. A. 2: 78. 1840. 
Dry pine barrens. Springhill. September-October. Fre- 
quent. 
CHONDROPHORA VIRGATA (Nutt.) 
Chrysocoma virgata Nutt. Gen. 2: 137. 1818. 
Bigelovia nudata var virgata T. & G. FL. N. A. @: 232. 1841. 
Chondrophora nudata virgata Britt. Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 5: 
317. 1894. 
Allied to C. nudata by the inflorescence and other floral charac- 
ters, but widely differing in the habit of growth, habitat, distri- 
bution and foliage. 
The stout sprouts of the multicipitate rootstock are covered 
with the soft, filiform leaves, forming dense tufts; leaves of the 
flowering stalk filiform, 1’-114’ long, more or less distant. In the 
specimens from Alabama and others from western Louisiana no 
tendency towards the development of a wider leaf blade could be 
observed ; on a specimen from western Texas a few linear-spatu- 
late leaves were found, scarcely 1’ wide. 4 
Mountain region. Rocky banks of Little River on Lookout 
Mountain, DeKalb Co. altitude 1,600 ft. September. Texas, 
western Louisiana. 
New Species of Fungi imperfecti from Alabama. 
By PF. 5, BASLE: 
During the past year Dr. Underwood and I have been 
preparing a preliminary list of the fungi of Alabama, which it is _ 
