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PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
represented by the closely related genus Talauma. Of coniferous 
trees pines are abundant in the higher mountains of Mexico and 
Central America. Our slash pine, or Cuban pine, extends from the 
West Indian Islands to Honduras; Taxodium inhabits Mexico, and 
savin (Juniperus barbadensis) the West Indies, with other species of 
Juniperus in Mexic 
oO. 
The common elements in these floras are exhibited in the following 
table: ; 
Genera and species common to Alabama and tropical America. 
Number | Number Number | Number 
Classification. of of Classification. of of 
genera. | species. genera. | species.. 
Pteridophyta : | Dicotyledoneae—Continued. 
Filices!..........-------- 12 9 Archichlamydeae—Con- 
Ophioglossaceac.......-. 2 2 tinued. : 
Lycopodiaceae .....-.--- 2 2 Batidaceae .......--- 1 1 
Selaginellaceae.........- L1G eres Aristolochiaceae .... Ll haestavnerectievs 
Equisetaceae?.........-. 1 1 Loranthaceae ....--. 1 
Polygonaceae ......- 1 
TOL cxvecnsegeses a4 sos 18 | 14 Anacardiaceae ...... 1 
SS Tlicaceae -.......-.-. 1 
Gymnospermac......-..--.-- 3 | 3 Cistaceae .......----- a 
—— Passifloraccae - 1 
Monocotyledoneae : | Cactaceae .....-- 1 
Poaceae# .........------- 30 37 Haloragidaceae . 1 1 
Cyperaceaet.....-.-----. 10 41 Cornaceae .....------ dl | esgerctoeia se 
Liliaceae’ ...........---- 8 2, 
Orchidaceae......-..--.- 8 2: TO UB sagieey wate scot ostisis iateiecs 100 46 
Amaryllidaceae ........- 4 4 
Alismaceae....-.-....-.- 2, 2 || Sympetalae: 
Eriocaulaceae -....-..--- 2 2) Carduaceae— 
Commelinaceae .....-..- 2 4 Vernonieae and Eu- 
Pontederiaceae.....-..-- 2 2 patorieae .......... 
Najadaceae...... ae A. 1 Heliantheae... 
Juncaginaceae 1 1 Astereae....... 
Arecaceae ... 1 eee Senecioneae ... 
Mayacaceae ... 1 1 Inuleae....-. 
Xyridaceae (Xy: 1 2 Cynareae ...- . 
Cichoriaceae...-..-.--.-- 
PG baal seceseacedanctacevocicisjene 73 101 
Total Compositae& 
Dicotyledoneae: 
Archichlamydeae— Scrophulariaceae 
Leguminosae .......-. 23 14 || Nepetaceae ...--. 
Chenopodiaceae . Gi | saemaenase Ericaceae, Vaccin 
Ranunculaceae . . GF Picarnsiassvareus-s Hydrophyllaceae .... 
Rosaceae © ..... Br ersranmnarsnsssiets Solanaceae....... 
Euphorbiaceac GB iccesereecassessiece Asclepiadaceae . . 
Apiaceae .... 6) |asinasisecers Convolvulaceae . = 
Onagraceae. - 5 7 || Orobanchaceae. . 
Lythraceae - 5 7 || Loganiaceae ... . 
Malvaceae. 4 2 || Boraginaceae. . aoe 
Urticaceae.. BO |ctaincinces Verbenaceae... 
Juglandaceae. 2 3 || Pinguiculaceac.. -........-. 
Brassicaceae... BA estes cedvenczoie Monotropaceae .. 
Nymphaeaceae . De sariataot bite Primulaceae... 
Alsinaceae ..... mise 2 2 || Sapotaceae... 
Rhamnaceae . 2 2 || Cuscutacease .......0-..0ee05 
Vitaceae.....-. tects 2 2 || Polemoniaceae? .........-.-- 
Hypericaceae. 2 2 || Bignoniaceae ........-...---. 
Myricaceae . mee le Beer Acanthaceae.........-...-..- 
Salicaceae .. 1}. 
Betulaceae........--- 1 Total Sympetalae........ 91 34 
Fagaceae .........--- 1 
Moraceae .......----. 1 Total Dicotyledonae..... 191 94 
1Including Polypodiaceae, Hymenophyllaceae, and Osmundaceae. 
2 Equisetum robustum. 
8Chiefly Paniceae (Panicum, Paspalum) and Andropogoneae; all widely diffused from the West 
Indies to Argentina. 
4 Mostly of the genera Cyp 
being not met with, outsi 
5 Here used in the broader 
thioideae. 
6 Here used in the broader 
7 Phlox. 
erus, Eleocharis, Scleria, and Rynchospora, 10 species of the last 2 genera 
sense, 
sense. 
e of the West Indies, in tropical America. 
The species belong to Yucca and other genera, mostly Melan- 
