148 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Class RHODOPHYCEAE. Red Algae. 



Order NEIVEALIONALES. 



Family LEMANEACEAE. 



LEMANEA Bory. 



Lemanea fucina mamillosa (Kuetz.) Atkinson. L. mamiUosa Kuetz. 

 In rivulets. North Alabama (Peters). Mobile. 

 North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 



TUOMEYA Harv. 



Tuomeya fluviatilis Harv. 



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

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



Family HELMINTHOCLADIACEAE. 



BATRACHOSPERMUM Roth. 



Batrachospermum moniliforme Roth. 



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, with a thallus from 6 to 8 inches long of a deep green to olive-brown color. 

 It has not been observed outside of the Coast Pine belt. 



Order RHODYN1ENIALES. 

 Family SPHAEKOCOCCACEAE. 



GRACILARIA Grev. 



Gracilaria armigera Harv. 

 Mobile. Mississippi Sound, Cat Island, Dauphin Island. 



Family DELESSERIACEAE. 



CALAGLOSSA (Harv.) J. G. Agh 



Calaglossa leprieuri J. G. Agh. 



Brackish water. Estuary of Mobile River, on immersed trunks. 

 Warmer seas of the Old World. 

 New Jersey. 



FUNGI. 



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

 von Schweinitz in the same field, the Rev. M. A. Curtis, of North Car- 

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

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

 mycologists cooperated Mr. Kavenel, of South Carolina, and Judge 

 Peters, of Moultou, 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 chiefly made during the period from 1854 to 



