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Ferry below Parisburg, and thence to Tazewell County. In 
Giles County, soon after crossing the river, live roots of the very 
rare and distinct Heuchera hispida, Pursu., were obtained, which 
have been preserved in cultivation. Clinch River was crossed 
above Saltville, and the North Fork of the Holston at Seven-mile 
Ford; the Middle Fork was ascended to within a few miles of 
the place where the writer crossed the Iron Mountains on a pre- 
vious journey, and this range was ascended by a new road a lit- 
tle farther westward. In consequence of this, the remarkable Ca-, 
rez Fraseriana was met with, in immense quantities, through 
some miles of moist wood-land, within the borders of Virginia, 
whence an adequate supply has been secured for cultivation. En- 
tering Ashe County, North Carolina, the Negro Mountain. was 
first visited; the Grandfather sedulously re-explored ; and then 
Table Mountain was visited by crossing the Blue Ridge into 
Burke County. Besides the plants before known at this locality, 
a single patch of the curious Sckweinitzia was found. Contin- 
uing southward to the Catawba, the Blue Ridge was again trav- 
ersed by Swananoa Gap into Buncombe County, and the route 
along the French Broad River explored. to the Warm Springs, 
Paint Rock, and to within the borders of ‘Tennessee ; where, 
among the phanerogamous plants obtained for cultivation, the 
most interesting is the Buckleya of Torney, a Santalaceous shrub, 
allied to Pyrularia. . Here the expedition bifurcated, to use a bo- 
~ tanical phrase,—one of its members. crossing the Cumberland 
Mountains into Kentucky ; the other, returning to Ashville, vis- 
ited Hickory Nut Gap, then explored the high mountains in Hay- 
wood and Henderson Counties, near the sources of the French 
Broad and Pigeon Rivers, (the Great Balsam Mountain, the Devil’s 
Court House, &c.;) again crossed the Blue Ridge to Cesar’s 
Head, in South Carolina, ascended the far-famed Table Rock, 
which is certainly one of the greatest curiosities in the United 
States; thence continued his course to Augusta, Georgia, and re- 
turned northward by the usually travelled route. We must not 
prolong this article by farther notices of the interesting plants, 
which the memory of this botanical journey so vividly recalls to 
mind. ; eer; ning oe tos 
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