126 JOUKNAL OF THE MiTCHELL SoCIETY [^Jan. 



A LIST OF PLANTS GEOWING SP0NTA:N'E0USLY 

 IN HENDERSON COUNTY, N. C. 



BY EDWARD READ MEMMINGER 



The following list summarizes the results of years of study 

 of the Flora of Henderson County, but being the work of but one 

 collector is necessarily incomplete. I have entered herein only 

 plants which I have myself seen. Specimens of most of the 

 plants listed are in my private collection and many in Colum- 

 bia University, N. Y., herbarium. 



Henderson County is situated in the western Alpine section 

 of the State ; most of the county lying west of the Blue Ridge, 

 and includes in its boundary all sorts of topographic conforma- 

 tions, from the level meadow lands of the French Broad River 

 and its tributaries to mountains of 3,000 — 4,000 feet in altitude. 

 Most of the level lands of the county are at an elevation of 

 2,000 feet above sea level. From its altitude its flora approaches 

 greatly the flora of more northern latitudes, so much so that 

 Gray's Flora of the Northern U. S. is nearly of as much use in 

 the study of this flora as Chapman's Southern Flora. 



Though this list adds but few new species to the Flora of 

 the State as heretofore published by Curtis and Hyams, yet it 

 extends the ranges of many plants beyond the limits set forth 

 in those lists, and so tends to give us a more accurate knowledge 

 of the distribution of the plants of the State. 



The question of nomenclature being in such an unsettled 

 state I have generally adhered to that of Britton and Brown's 

 Illustrated Flora of the Northern States and Canada rather 

 than to the new, radical nomenclature of Dr. Small's Southern 

 Flora. 



As the Graminae and Cyperaceae have not been duly studied 

 many species that grow in this country are wanting from this 

 list. 



I desire herein to acknowledge the assistance kindly given 

 me in the identification of many species by Dr. Small, Mr. W. 

 W. Ashe and Mr. Biddle of the Biltmore Herbarium. 



The list follows : 



