150 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



those collected by Professor Atkinson or his associates and deposited in 

 the herbarium of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the material col- 

 lected by G. W. Carver of the Tuskegee formal and Industrial Insti- 

 tute in Macon County, and the species reported upon by the authors 

 in later papers from material collected in 1895 and subsequently. 



The following list of the Alabama fungi has been kindly furnished 

 by Prof. F. S. Earle. The writer takes this occasion to express his 

 gratitude for this valuable contribution to his catalogue of Alabama 

 plants. 



Introductory to this list Professor Earle makes the following remarks : 



In the Preliminary List of Alabama Fungi, of Underwood and Earle, published 

 during the summer of 1897 ' 1,110 species were noted as occurring in the State, and the 

 distribution by counties was given. At about the same time Professor Atkinson 

 published his list of 644 species, which appeared as Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1, of the 

 Cornell University. Two hundred and thirty-two of the species were not given in 

 Bulletin 80. 



These two publications are the basis of the following list, though it contains a 

 number of additional species not reported in either of them. 



The nomenclature adopted is essentially that of Engler & Prantl, Die Natuer- 

 lichen Pflanzenfamilien. This necessitates the change for good reason of a few of 

 the Saccardian generic names that were used in the above publication. The sequence 

 of orders and families is that of Engler & Prantl's work, the genera and species 

 being arranged alphabetically. 



To this the writer has to add that, in order to bring his list into 

 accord with the plan adopted in the present work, the genera had also 

 to be systematically arranged according to the work of the above 

 authors, and the authority for each genus had to be given. Further 

 have been added citations for the more recently described species, 2 the 

 names of collectors in Alabama, and the distribution of species by 

 States, as far as could be ascertained from the various State floras, 

 occurrence in Europe being also noted. 



Division EUMYCETES, Fungi, 



Class PHYCOMYCETES. 



Order CHYTRIDIALES. 



Family SYNCHYTRIACEAE. 



SYNCHYTRIUM De Bary & Woronin. 



Synchytrium decipiens Farlow. 



Ala. Bull. 135. 3 



On Falcata comosa. Dekalb County, May, 1896 ( Underwood $- Earle}. 



1 This Bulletin was dated April, 1897, but was not issued till about July 1. 



2 Except when the publication occurred in either the Alabama or tbo Cornell 

 Bulletin. 



3 "Ala. Bull." denotes Bulletin No. 80 of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment 

 station, referred to in the introduction. 



