BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO NORTH CAROLINA. 69 
in Buncombe and Haywood counties), Berberis Canadensis 
(which, however, Pursh collected on the mountains of Green- 
brier in Virginia), Parnassia asarifolia (which according 
to Mr. Curtis first appears in Yancey County, but Pursh 
procured it from “mountain runs on the Salt Pond Mountain, 
Virginia, and on the top of the Alleghanies near Christian- 
burg ”’), and, above all, the new Thermopsis; (7. Caroliniana, 
M. A. Curtis, MSS.) recently discovered by our friend Mr. 
Curtis, in Haywood and Cherokee counties. We were like- 
wise unsuccessful in our search for a remarkable undescribed 
plant, with a habit of Pyrola and the foliage of Galax, which 
was obtained by Michaux in the high mountains of Carolina. 
The only specimen extant is among the “ Plants incognitz ” 
of the Michauxian herbarium, in fruit only; and we were 
anxious to obtain flowering specimens, that we might complete 
its history; as I have long wished to dedicate the plant to 
Professor Short of Kentucky, whose attainments and emi- 
nent services in North American botany are well known and 
appreciated both at home and abroad.! 
We left this interesting region near the end of July, re- 
turning to New York by way of Raleigh, Richmond, etc. ; and 
found a marked change in the vegetation immediately on 
crossing the Blue Ridge. I cannot extend these remarks to 
the plants observed in our homeward journey, except to men- 
tion that the Schrankia of this part of the country, which ex- 
tends to the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, is the S. angu- 
stata, Torr. & Gray ; at least we observed no other species. 
1 Shortia, Torrey & Gray. Calyx quinquesepalus ; sepala imbricata, 
squamacea, striata, persistentia, exteriora ovata, interiora oblonga. 
Corolla — Stamina— Capsula calyce brevior, subglobosa, stylo filiformi 
(subpersistente) superata, trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis, valvis medio 
septiferis, placenta centrali magna persistente. Semina multa, parva ; 
testa nucleo conformis. Embryo teres, rectiusculus, albumine brevior. 
Herba cspitosa? subaculjs, perenni, glabra; foliis longe petiolatis, 
rotundatis, subcordatis, apice nune retusis, crenato-serratis, crenaturis 
mucronatis ; scapis unifloris, nudis, apicem versus squamoso-bracteatis. 
S. galacifolia, Torrey & Gray. (V. spec. sice. in herb. Michx., cum 
schedula, “ Hautes montagnes de Carolinie. An Pyrola spec. ? an genus 
novum ? ”’) 
