477 
For the entire fifty miles between Poor Fork and Wasioto, the 
Pine Mountain remains the same in height and character. It is 
only broken at Wasioto, where the Cumberland passes through 
it. The Black Mountain, however, breaks up into a number of 
lesser ridges, of which the chief is known as the Log Mountain. 
The Pine still proved the most interesting collecting ground. 
In a ravine on the south slope, a single specimen of the rare and 
little-known Gaylussacia ursina (M, A. Curtis) Torr. & Gray, a 
much branched shrub about I m. in height, was found. The best 
it could yield in the way of inflorescence or fruit was a few clusters 
of apparently unfertilized ovaries. Lodelia puberula, Michx., Galax 
aphylla, L., and the magnificent grass, Erianthus contortus, Ell., 
also appeared in the ravine. 
On the dryer ridges of the Pine, Eupatorium verbenefolium, 
Michx., Chrysopsis graminifolia, Nutt., Juncus biflorus, Ell., and an 
interesting little Panicum with membranaceous leaf-margins, Pant- 
cum nitidum crassifolium, A. Gray, possibly Elliott's P. ciatum, 
flourished. In the richer soil of the north slope grew Artstolochia 
Sipho, LHér., Pyrularia pubera, Michx., Cimicifuga Americana, 
Michx. and Eupatorium sessilifolium L. 
In the neighborhood of Wasioto, a well-marked variety of 
Panicum capillare, Panicum capillare geniulatum Scribn.,* was 
found to be frequent in the loose soil of railroad embankments. 
On Clear Creek, Oxypolis rigida (L.), Raf.,t Solidago arguta, 
Ait., S. patula, Muhl. and S. Curtisu, Torr. & Gray, were collected. 
On dry slate along the same stream Phyllanthus Carolinensis, Walt., 
and Aster dumosus, L., were found. 
Towards the end of September I left Kentucky, regretting 
much that circumstances had not permitted me to begin collecting 
earlier in the season in a country whose flora would seem to 
promise so much of interest. 
_ Appended is a complete list of the plants collected in Bell and 
-*« Culms usually prostrate or ascending, geniculate or much branched, with 
numerous oblong or ovate diffusely branched panicles. Spikelets more numerous 
than in var. a [the ordinary form]. This corresponds to var. geniculatum of P. 
proliferum.” 
+ Tiedemannia rigida, Coult. and Rose. 
