312 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



KAMTCHATKA, JAPAN, CHINA, HIMALAYAN INDIA. 



Boreal region to Carolinian area. Newfoundland, Ontario to British Columbia, 

 Vancouver Island, New England to New Jersey, Ohio Valley to Missouri, Arkansas, 

 and south along the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rich shady woods. Winston County, Colliers Creek, 

 1,500 feet (T. M. Peters). Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, 1,600 feet. Clay 

 County, Emersons Gap, 1,800 feet. Cullman County, 800 feet. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Canada, Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



PTERIS L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1073. 1753. BRAKE FERN. 



About 103 species, mostly tropical, cosmopolitan. North America, 5 species. 

 Pteris aquilina L. Sp. PI. 2 : 1075. 1753. COMMON BRACKEN. KACJLK FERN. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 681. Chap. Fl. 589. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2 : 341. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 

 1 : 263', t. 35. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 564. Underwood, Native Ferns, 91. 



Cosmopolitan. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Throughout the continent to Mexico. 



ALABAMA : Over the State. In sterile open woodlands, abundant everywhere. 



Type locality : "Hab. in Europae sylvis, praesertim caeduis." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb Mohr. 



Pteris aquilina pseudocaudata Clute, Fern Bull. 8: 39. 1900. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Long Island, New Jersey, and Maryland to 

 Florida and Texas along the coast. (Clute.) 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie belt to Coast plain. Sandy shaded banks and thickets. 

 Mobile County, frequent. 



Type locality: "Abundant in the 'pine barrens/ Babylon, Long Island." 



Pteris serrulata L. f. Suppl. 425. 1781. CHINESE BRAKE. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 669. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2 : 239, t. 28, f. 5. Underwood, Native 

 Ferns, 91. 



TROPICAL ASIA. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina and Georgia. Probably introduced. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Shaded banks of brooklets. Mobile County, iirst 

 observed in 1870. Since spreading along the banks of water courses and ditches, 

 and on old walls. July. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CHEILANTHES Sw. Syn. Fil. 126. 1806. LIP FERN. ' 



Over 60 species, temperate and warmer regions. Mexico, South America; North 

 America, chiefly in the arid table-lands west of the Mississippi. 



Cheilanthes alabamensis (Buckl.) Kuntze, Liunaea, 20:234. 1847. 



ALABAMA LIP FERN. 



Pteris alabamensis Buckl. Am. Journ. Sci. 45 : 177. 1843. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 681. Chap. Fl. 590. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2 : 89, t. 57 J. 7. Coulter, 

 Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 565. Underwood, Native Ferns, 93. 



Carolinian area. Central Kentucky to the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, 

 and western Texas. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Lower hills. Lauderdale County, near Florence, 

 rocky banks of Cypress Creek. Winston County, sandstone cliffs on Sipsey fork, 

 1,200 feet. Etowah County, Black Creek Falls, 1,200 feet. Bibb County, Pratt's 

 Ferry, on limestone rock (E. A. Smith). 



Type locality: "Grows in tufts on limestone rocks, that form the banks of the 

 Tennessee River, at the foot of the Muscle Shoals, Alabama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cheilanthes lanosa (Michx.) Watt, Trimen's Journ. Bot. 12 : 48. 1847. 



WOOLLY LIP FERN. 



Nephrodium lanosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 270. 1803. 



Cheilanthes vestita Sw. Syn. Fil. 128. 1806. 



Gray, Man.ed. 6, 681. Chap. Fl. 590. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 1 : 13, t. ./. 2. Under- 

 wood, Native Ferns, 93. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. British Columbia, northwest coast, to east- 

 ern base of the Rocky Mountains, southeast New York west to Kentucky, Illinois, 

 southern Missouri, Arkansas, and Colorado, and south to Tennessee and North 

 Carolina. 



