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trip there to locate it. Driving out to the banks of the ]S[euse River 

 about 4 miles north of town I found Rhododendron catawhiense in 

 full bloom, and quite abundant on a steep bluff on the south side of 

 the river, a position exactly similar to its station in Chapel Hill. 

 This record extends the species to the middle of the coastal plain and 

 down to an elevation of about 150 feet above the sea. 



There seems to be no published record of the occurrence of this 

 species between the tops of the high mountains of the main ranges 

 and Orange County except from Kings Mountain, as mentioned 

 above, and from Table Eock by J^uttall (Genera of ]^. Am. Plants 

 2 : 5. 1818) who records it from the "romantic summit" in com- 

 pany with his interesting Hudsonic montana, which seems to be con- 

 fined to this place. To these records we can now add Crowders 

 Mountain, near Kings Mountain, these two being abrupt emi- 

 nences in Gaston County near the South Carolina line and about 

 sixty miles from the nearest high mountains. Dr. Small 

 visited Table Rock July 2, 1891, but failed to notice R. cataw- 

 hiense tliere (Mem. Tor. Bot. Club 3: 10. 1892). It is 

 also very strange that Dr. Asa Gray and his large party who as- 

 cended Table Rock on June 12, 1879, failed to recognize this species 

 (Bull. Tor. Bot. Club 6: 335. 1879). The plants had flowered about 

 a month before their arrival and they must have carelessly taken it 

 for R. punctatum or R. maximunu. They report only the former. It 

 is interesting to note that they found on the same trip that R. cataw- 

 hiense was just coming into bloom on Roan Mountain on June 16th. 



In May of this year the writer with three of his students 

 took an automobile trip to the three mountains just mentioned to 

 ascertain what species of Rhododendron grew on them and to look 

 for Rhododendron in other places. Rehder has reported (from Small's 

 collections) R. carolinianum and R. minus from Table Rock (Rhod- 

 ora 14 : 97. 1912). We found the former in abundance and in full 

 bloom, but did not see the latter. There was also an abundance of 

 R. catawhiense in bloom on the top (elevation about 3,900 feet) and 

 on the sides in small amount down to perhaps 2,500 feet. Near the 

 top but not on it a few clunips of R. maximum were seen. 



