THE MOUNTAINS OF N. CAROLINA. 1S 
for the purpose of obtaining living plants and seeds. He 
also collected many interesting specimens, which may be 
found in the herbaria of Muhlenberg and Willdenow, where 
his tickets may be known by the orthography and the 
amusing mixture of bad English and German, (with occa- 
sionally some very singular Latin), in which his observations 
are written. 
In the winter of 1816, Mr. NUTTALL crossed the mountains 
of North Carolina from the west, ascending the French Broad 
River (along the banks of which he found his Phi/adelphus 
hirsutus, &c.), to Asheville, passing the Blue Ridge, and 
exploring the Table Mountain, where he discovered Hudsonia 
montana, &c., and collected many other rare and interesting 
plants.* 
As early as 1817, the mountains at the sources of the 
Saluda River were visited by the late Dr. MacnnipE, the 
friend and correspondent of Elliott; who, in the preface to 
the second volume of his Sketch, pays an affecting and 
most deserved tribute to his memory, acknowledging the 
important service which he rendered to that work during its 
progress. 
The name of RArINESQUE should also be mentioned in this 
account; since that botanist crossed the Alleghanies four 
or five times between 1818 and 1833, in Pennsyivania, Mary- 
land, and the North of Virginia, and also explored the Cum- 
berland Mountains. A few years since, the Peaks of Otter, 
in Virginia, were visited by Mr. S. B. Buckley; and still 
more recently the same botanist explored the Moun- 
tains in the upper part of Alabama and Georgia, and the 
adjacent borders of North Carolina. Among the interesting 
contributions which the authors of the Flora of North Ame- 
.  * The spur of the Blue Ridge, from which the picturesque Table 
Mountain rises like a tower, is called by Mr. Nuttall the Catawba Ridge. 
lam informed, however, by Mr. Curtis, who is intimately acquainted 
with this region, that it is not known by that name, but called the Table 
Mountain Ridge. Its base is not washed by the Catawba River, but by its 
tributary, the Linville, 
