THE FLORA OF THE METAMORPHIC REGION 



OF ALABAMA. 



BY F. S. EaRLE. 



The following list of the ferns and flowering plants of 

 the Metamorphic Region of Alabama is based on the 

 collections in the herbarium of the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute at Auburn. The Alabama material in this 

 herbarium was secured as follows : First, a few plants 

 collected prior to 1895 by Dr. P. H. Mell and his assist- 

 ants. (The bulk of this earlier material was destroyed 

 by fire) ; second, a few plants collected during the Fall 

 of 1835 by Dr. L. M. Underwood ; third, plants collected 

 during the Spring and Summer of 1896 by L. M. Under- 

 wood and F. S. Earle; fourth, plants collected during 

 the Fall of 1896, during 1897, and the Spring and Sum- 

 mer of 1898 by C. F. Baker and F. S. Earle; fifth, plants 

 collected from the Fall of 1898 to the Summer of 1901 by 

 F. S. Earle and Mrs. F. S. Earle. Prior to 1897 atten- 

 tion had been devoted mainly to the fungi, fiowering 

 plants being taken only incidentally. Prof. Baker first 

 suggested the systematic collection of the fioAvering 

 plants, and the greater part of the species enumerated 

 below were taken during the period of his residence at 

 Auburn. 



As Dr. Charles Mohr was knovx n to be working' on a 

 flora of Alabama, the collections made prior to mid- 

 summer of 1897 were all sent to him for determination, 

 and he was permitted to retain a full set, including all 

 uniques, for his own herbarium. These plants are fre- 

 quently referred to in his recent work on The Plant Life 

 of Alabama that was published first by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture as Volume 6, of the Con- 



