8 CONTENTS. 
General principles of the distribution of plants—Continued. 
Plant formations and plant associations ...------------------+-+-+---+-++- 
Hydrophytic plant associations......--------------++--++-22 2-220: 
Xerophytic plant associations -....-.----------------+--+--erre-r- 
Halophytic plant associations -..-.-.---------------++--++2-2 eee 
Mesophytic plant associations .....-.--------------+-+-+2-2+e-e ere 
General character of the flora of Alabama ....--..------------------------- 
Systematical relations .......----------------------e cere reer cere 
Endemic plants -.....------------------ 2-2-2 eee e err eee 
Relationship of the Alabama flora to that of adjoining regions -..--- 
Relationship of the Alabama flora to foreign floras......-.---------- 
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West Indies, Mexico, South America ......-------------------- 
Europe and the Mediterranean region .--.--------------------- 
Biological and ecological relations ..-.-.---.---------------------+++++- 
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Shrubby plant associations......-...----.------+--------------- 
Arboreal plant associations ......--.-----------------+--------- 
Open land or campestrian flora (xerophile plant associations) -.-..-- 
Water and swamp flora (hydrophytic plant associations) ..-.--...--- 
Hydrocharidean class. ...-..-.----------+---------+- +--+ 2-2 -- 
Lithophytic and limnean classes _...-..-------------------+--- 
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Epiphytic plant associations .........----.-------------+------ 
Saprophytic and symbiotic plant associations. ........--.--..--- 
Parasitic plant associations........--.--.---------------------- 
Insectivorous (plants 11s sscexcexcweud 2+ seemaauseae ess eeseeseus’s 
Introduced plants and their influence upon native plant associations - 
Naturalized plants......--.-------------2---ee- eee eee eee eee 
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Plant distribution in. Alabama. 225000. ccccee sly e pee eseccnee se eeceeseee ees 
Carolinian area ortloras. oss cS ooseccank eee ee cawesetak sess secs esees ss 
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Ranges of hills of the Metamorphic and older Paleozoic strata... 
Table-lands of the Warrior and Coosa Basins 
Physiographical features and climate _.........-.-------------- 
Vegetation of the plateaus, mountain slopes, and higher valleys. . 
Region of the Tennessee River Valley .......-.-----2-------------- 
Physiographical features and climate -.-...-...-...-..--.22-2-- 
Vegetation of the table-lands and higher ridges 
Vegetation of the lowlands, coves, and bluffs 
Vegetation of the barrens and fiver hills 
Cultural plant formations............00.2.2220eeeeeeeeeceeeeee 
Region of the Lower Hill country ...........222..22.2-2--.--------- 
Gravelly hills of short-leaf pine and hardwood trees ............ 
Coal Measures of the Cahaba Valley and Warrior basin 
Louisianian area or flora......-.22.2 02.22.2002 eee eee eee eee 
Region of the Central Pine belt 
Central Prairie region 
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