148 PLANT LIKK <>K AI.Al^AMA. 



Class RHODOPHVCEAE. Red Algae. 



Orclor XEXIALION^^^LES. 



Family LEMANEACEAE. 



LEMANEA I'.ory. 



Lemanea fucina niamillosa (Kuetz.) Atkinson. L. uunnilldsa Knot/. 

 In rivnlets. North Alabama {Peters). Mobile. 

 Noitii Carolina, C'bapel Hill. 



TUOMEYA Ilarv. 



Tuomeya fluviatilis llarv. 



On rocks in Warrior River near Tuscaloosa, 1857 (Tiiomey). 



Virginia near Fredericksburg (liailey); Connecticut; Maine, Mount Desert Island. 



Family HELMINTHOCLADIACEAE. 



BATRACHOSPERMUM Kotb. 



Batracliospermum moniliforme Kolh. 



In brooks and springs. Over the State; very variable. The Southern form inhab- 

 its in abundance swift-running pine-barren streams, attached to submerged timber 

 and roots, ^vith a tliallus from 6 to 8 inches long of a deep green to olive-brown color. 

 It has not bceu observed outside of the Coast I'ino belt. 



Order RHOOYMENI ALES. 



Family SPHAEROCOCCACEAE. 



GRACILARIA Grev. 



Gracilaria armigera Harv. 

 Mobile. Mississippi Sound, Cat Island, Dauphin Island. 



Family DELESSERIACEAE. 



CALAGLOSSA (llarv.) J. G. Agh 



Calaglossa leprieuri J. G. Agh. 



liiackish Avater. Estuary of Mobile Kiver, on immersed trunks. 

 Warmer seas of the Old World. 

 New Jersey. 



FUNGI. 



About the middle of the present ceutury, following the work of Baron 

 von Scliweinit/. in tlie same field, the Kev. M. A. Curtis, of Xorth Car- 

 olina, and the Ilev. M, J. Berkeley, of England, devoted their attention 

 to the study of the fungi of the Southern United States. With these 

 mycologists cooperated jNfr. Ravenel, of South Carolina, and Judge 

 Peters, of jNloulton, Ala. The latter proved a most active contributor, 

 exploring a region hitherto a veritable terra incognita to science, and 

 affording further light on the distribution of fungi in this part of our 

 continent. 



His collections were chietly made during the period from 1834 to 



