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the Little Catawba to Lincolnton. In the early part of May 
he revisited Linville Mountain, the Yellow Mountain, the 
Roan, and some others, and then descended Doe River and 
the Holston to Knoxville, Tennessee. Thence, crossing the 
Cumberland Mountains, and a wilderness one hundred and 
twenty miles in extent, he arrived at Nashville on the 16th of 
June, at Danville, Kentucky, on the 27th, and at Louisville 
on the 20th of July. In August he ascended the Wabash to 
Vincennes, crossed the country to the Illinois River, and de- 
voted the months of September, October, and November to 
diligent herborizations along the course of that river, the 
Mississippi, the lower part of the Ohio, and throughout the 
country included by these rivers. In December he descended 
the Mississippi in a small boat to the mouth of the Ohio, and 
ascended the latter and the Cumberland to Clarksville, which 
he reached on the 10th of January, 1796, after a perilous 
voyage in the most inclement weather. Leaving that place 
on the 16th, he arrived at Nashville on the 19th of January ; 
and after making a journey to Louisville and back again, he 
started for Carolina at the close of February, crossed the 
Cumberland Mountains early in March, reached Knoxville on 
the 8th, Greenville on the 18th, Jonesborough on the 19th, 
and on the 22d crossed the Iron Mountains into North 
Carolina, descended Cane Creek (which rises in the Roan), 
and spent several days in exploring the mountains in the 
vicinity, with his former guide, Davenport. In April he re- 
turned to Charleston by his usual route; and on the 13th of 
August embarked for Amsterdam in the ship Ophir. This 
vessel was wrecked on the coast of Holland, on the 10th of 
Oétober, and Michaux lost a part of the collections he had 
with him; on the 23d of December, 1796, he arrived at Paris 
Hence some confusion has arisen respecting the locality of this interesting 
plant, since there is both a Flat Rock and a village named Camden in 
North Carolina, although the two are widely separated. After all, 
Pursh’s habitat, “on flat rocks in North Carolina, and elsewhere,” proves 
sufficiently correct, since Mr. Nuttall himself, and also Mr. Curtis and 
others, have subsequently obtained it in such situations near Salisbury in 
that State, and Dr. Leavenworth found it abundantly throughout the upper 
district of Georgia. 
