BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO NORTH CAROLINA. 25 
14th of June, and was conducted by the Indians across the 
mountains to the head of the Tugaloo (the other principal 
branch of the Savannah), and thence to the waters of the 
Tennessee. After suffering much inconvenience from unfa- 
vorable weather and the want of food, he returned to the 
Indian village of Seneca by way of Cane Creek, descended 
along the Savannah to Augusta, and arrived at Charleston on 
the Ist of July. His notes in this as well as in subsequent 
journeys to the mountains often contain remarks upon the 
more interesting plants he discovered; and in some cases 
their localities are so carefully specified that they might still 
be sought with confidence. On the 16th of July he embarked 
for Philadelphia, which he reached on the 27th; and, after 
visiting Mr. Bartram, traveled to New York, arriving at the 
garden he had established in New Jersey about the Ist of 
August. Returning by water to Charleston the same month, 
he remained in that vicinity until February, 1788, when he 
embarked for St. Augustine, and was busily occupied, during 
this spring, in exploring east Florida. His journal mentions 
several sub-tropical plants, now well known to be indigenous 
to Florida, but which are not noticed in his Flora: such as 
the Mangrove Guilandina Bonduc, Sophora occidentalis, 
two or three Ferns, and especially the Orange.! Leaving 
Florida at the beginning of June, he returned by land to 
Savannah and Charleston, where he was confined by sickness 
the remainder of the summer. Late in the autumn, however, 
he made a second excursion to the sources of the Savannah, 
chiefly to obtain the roots and seeds of the remarkable plants 
he had previously discovered. He pursued the same route as 
before, except that he ascended the Tugaloo, instead of the 
were stolen, a misfortune which, it appears from Michaux’s remarks, was 
of no uncommon occurrence in those days ; and they were obliged to pur- 
sue their journey to that place on foot. On the way he discovered “a 
shrubby Rumex,” which he terms Lapathum occidentale ; doubtless the 
Polygonella parvifolia of his Flora, and also the Polygonum polygamum of 
Ventenat. 
1 «Les bois etoient remplis d’oranges aigres,” etc. Michaux, MSS. 
See also Bartram’s “Travels”; and Torrey & Gray, “Flora of North 
America,” i. p, 222. 
