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and the writer in whose personal collections most of the material 

 is contained. Duplicates of a considerable part of all these col- 

 lections are also to be found in the herbarium of the Alabama Poly- 

 technic Institute at Auburn, whose mycological collection and 

 library is the largest in the entire South. The local lists thus far 



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published are as follows : 



Underwood & Earle. A preliminary List of Alabama Fungi. 

 Bull. Ala. Agric. Exp. Sta. 80: 113-283, i-xvu. 1897. 



List of 1 1 10 species. Includes also a summary of papers treat- 

 ing of Alabama fungi ; these are omitted here, and the following 

 have appeared since this enumeration was published : 



Atkinson. Some Fungi from Alabama. Bull. Cornell Univ. 

 3 : 1-50. 1897. 



Includes 644 species with numerous new species ; a hundred 

 or more are not included in the previous list. 



Earle. New or noteworthy Alabama Fungi. Bull. Torrey 

 Bot. Club, 25 : 359-368. 1898. 



Descriptions of twelve species. 



Peck. New Species of Alabama Fungi. Bull. Torrey Bot. 

 Club, 25: 368-372. 1898. 



Descriptions of eleven species. 



Alaska. 



So far as known to us not a single species has been reported 

 from this remote part of our country, nor has a single fungus been 

 collected. From the analogies of high latitudes far less favorably 

 situated, a large and interesting fungus flora may be expected 

 when collecting botanists cease to look upon flowering plants as 

 constituting the whole of the vegetation of a province. 



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Arkansas. 



Except for a few fungi collected by F. L. Harvey when he was 

 connected with the Arkansas Industrial University at Fayetteville, 

 we know almost nothing of the fungus flora of this state. Noth- 

 ing has been published except a few notes on parasitic forms. 



Arizona. 



Except a few species of fungi incidentally collected by traveling 

 botanists, almost nothing is known of this region which like the 

 adjoining regions of New Mexico and Texas doubtless possesses 



