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We were too early in the season for several interesting 
plants, especially Composite, and did not extend our re- 
searches far enough south to obtain many others; such as 
Hudsonia montana, which appears to be confined to Table 
Mountain, Rhododendron punctatum, Stuartia pentagyna, Phi- 
ladelphus hirsutus, Silene ovata (which Mr. Curtis found in 
Buncombe and Haywood counties,) Berberis Canadensis 
(collected, however, by Pursh on the mountains of Green- 
brier in Virginia,) Parnassia asarifolia, (which, according to 
Mr. Curtis, first appears in Yancey County, but Pursh pro- 
cured it from “ mountain runs on the Salt Pond Mountain, 
Virginia, and on the top of the Alleghanies near Christians- 
burg;”) and above all, the new Thermopsis! (T. Caro- 
liniana, Mr. A. Curtis, MSS.) recently discovered by our 
friend Mr. Curtis, in Haywood and Cherokee Counties. We 
were likewise unsuccessful in our search for a remarkable 
undescribed plant, with the habit of Pyrola and the foliage of 
Galax, which was obtained by Michaux in the high moun- 
tains of Carolina. The only specimen extant is among the 
“Plante incognite,” of the Michauxian herbarium, in fruit 
only; and we were most anxious to obtain flowering spe- 
cimens, that we might complete its history, as I have long 
Wished to dedicate the plant to Prof. Short of Kentucky, 
Whose attainments and eminent services in North American 
Botany are well known and appreciated both at home and 
abroad, * 
*Suortia, Torrey and Gray. ` 
Calyx quinquesepalus; sepala imbricata, squamacea, striata, persis- 
ia, exteriora ovata, interiora oblonga. Corolla.... Stamina.... 
Capsula calyce brevior, subglobosa, stylo filiformi (subpersistente) su- 
Perata, trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis, valvis medio septiferis, placenta 
centrali Magna persistente. Semina numerosa, parva; testa nucleo' con- 
formis, Embryo teres, rectiusculus, albumine brevior.—Herba cæspitosa ? 
subacaulis, perennis, glabra ; foliis longe petiolatis, rotundatis, subcordatis, 
v nunc retusis, crenato-serratis, crenaturis mucronatis; scapis uni- 
» nudis, apicem versus squamoso-bracteatis. 
5 S. galacifolia, Torr. et Gray. (vid. spec. sicc. in herb. Mz., cum schedula, 
Hautes Montagnes de Carolinie. An Pyrole spec. ? an genus novum ?”) 
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