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and among them the names of Sir Joseph Banks, Lambert, 
and Walker, were frequently mentioned in the letters which 
he wrote while at sea. His own name, recorded as it is by 
his superior botanical designs, commemorated by the genus 
Bauera in the annals of botany, and, as we before stated, in 
those also of geography, willlong live in the recollection of 
posterity. 
Notes of a Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of South 
Carolina; with some Remarks on the Botany of the higher 
Alleghany Mountains ; in a letter to Sir W. J. Hooker, by 
Asa Gray, M.D. ; 
(Continued from p. 217 of vol. 1.\ 
On the 7th of July, we started for the high mountains 
farther south ; having hired a cumbrous and unsightly, but 
convenient, tilted waggon, with a pair of horses and a driver, 
(who rode one of the beasts according to the usual custom of 
this region), for the conveyance of our luggage, and which 
afforded us, at intervals, the luxury of reposing on straw, at 
the bottom, while we were dragged along at the rate of two 
or three miles an hour. 
Our first day’s journey, extending to about twenty-four 
miles, was somewhat tedious, for we found no new plants of 
any interest. We saw, however, a variety of Lonicera parvi- 
flora? with larger leaves and flowers than ordinary, the 
latter dull-purplish ; probably it is the Caprifolium bracteo- 
sum, var. floribus violaceo-purpureis, of Michaux. The follow- 
ing morning we reached the Watauga River (a tributary of 
the Holston), and leaving our driver to follow up the banks 
of the stream to the termination of the road at the foot of 
the Grandfather, we ascended an adjacent mountain, called 
Hanging-rock, and reached our quarters for the night by a 
different route. The fine and near view of the rugged Grand- 
Sather, amply rewarded the toil of ascending this beetling 
cliff, where we also obtained the Geum (Sieversia) radiatum, 
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