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species, which is well characterized by Michaux. The flowers 
were not yet expanded, but towards the end of July we ob- 
tained from other localities, specimens in full bloom, while 
the racemes and capsules of the preceding year were still 
persistent. The conspicuous bracts, it may be remarked, 
are as caducous in the wild as they are said to be in the cul- 
tivated state, usually falling before the flower-buds have at- 
tained their full size. We also saw Campanula divaricata, 
(Michx.), not yet in flower, and obtained fruiting specimens 
of the Convallaria umbellulata, Miche, (Clintonia Raf., not of 
Dougl While the character in Michaux is drawn from this 
species, the * planta Canadensis" there mentioned is the 
nearly allied Dracena borealis of the Hortus Kewensis. The 
two species are mixed in Michaux’s herbarium; and although 
the latter is almost exclusively a northern plant, we found 
them both growing together on the Grandfather, Roan, 
and other high mountains of North Carolina. "Towards the 
ase of the mountain we saw, for the first time, the Pyru- 
laria of Michaux, (Oil-nut, Buffalo-tree, &c., Hamiltonia 
oleifera, Muhl.), a low shrub, which is not of unfrequent 
occurrence in rich shady soil. Its geographical range extends 
from the Cherokee country on the confines of Georgia (where 
the elder Michaux discovered it on his earliest visit to the 
mountains, and where Mr. Curtis has recently observed it), 
to the western ranges of the Alleghanies of Pennsylvania, in 
lat. 409, where it was found by the younger Michaux.* It 
flowers early in the season, and the oleaginous fruit, in the 
Specimens we collected, had attained the size of a musket- 
all. 
parvis (corolla conspicua alba) cymuloso-paniculatis, post anthesin in apicem 
Pedicellorum arcte deflexis. 
S. Ohionis.—Saxif raga? Sullivantii, Zorrey et Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1, p. 575: 
Genus a Sazifraga precipue diversum staminibus petalis isomeris, et seminibus 
scobiformibus; a Boykinia calyce fere libero, atque seminibus; ab Heuchera 
capsula biloculari, etc,; a Leptarrhena staminibus 5, antheris bilocularibus, et 
seminibus alato-marginatis, nec utrinque subulatis. 
gie c to the Westward of the Alleghany Mountains, §c. Engl. Ed. 
p. 57, &c. 
