New and rare Plants of North Carolina. 83 



when ripe. Found on most or all the mountains south of Bun- 

 combe County, but no where north of it. The flowers I had not 

 seen until supplied this season with fine specimens by Mr. Buck- 

 ley. In fruit it bears some resemblance to V. resinosum. It is 

 well known, where it grows, under the names of Bear-berry, 

 Buck-berry, and Bear-whortleberry. Dr. Gray informs me that 

 it is noticed by Michaux, in his Mss. journal, under the name of 

 " Vaccinium d'Ours" but I cannot discover that it is described 

 in his Flora. He probably found it in fruit, and included it 

 under V. resinosum. But this cannot belong to the section with 

 urceolate corollas. 



Lindernia saxicola : stems numerous, erect, branching, gla- 

 brous ; leaves opposite, ovate or oblong, obtuse, entire, the lowest 

 attenuate at base, the upper clasping ; peduncles strong, much 

 longer than the leaves, refracted in fruit ; corol four times the 

 length of the calyx, the tube gradually enlarging from the base ; 

 segments of the calyx linear, subequal ; capsule acute when 

 young, terminated by the somewhat persistent style. 



Stem 3-5 inches high ; leaves rather distant ; corol about 4 

 lines long, blue with lighter veins, the lower lip whitish with 

 large blotches of blue. — Flowers in August. 



On rocks in the Hiwassee River; also on rocks at Tolula Falls, 

 Georgia. — Mr. Buckley. 



Juncus cylindricns : stem compressed, # leafy ; leaves plane, 

 smooth ; panicle cymose, decompound ; spikes cylindrical, many 

 flowered, compact, mostly pedicellate ; sepals 6, the exterior lan- 

 ceolate, very acute, carinate, narrowly margined, the interior a 

 little longer, oblong, obtuse, with a broad membranaceous mar- 

 gin; stamens 3, shorter than the obtusely trigonous capsule; 



anthers tawny. 



This may prove a variety of /. aristulatus, Mich. ; j but I am 



inclined to consider it distinct. The cymes are small and but 



little expanding ; stem 2-3 feet high ; spikes 30-40 flowered ; 



florets 3-angled by the strongly keeled outer sepals ; capsule 



retuse, a little shorter than the sepals ; style hardly perceptible ; 



stigmas 3. — Lincolnton, N. C. 



Muhlenbergia Jilipes : cespitose, glabrous ; leaves very long, 



involute ; panicle large, diffuse, capillary, not wholly exsert ; 



pedicels long ; calyx much smaller than the corolla, unequal, both 



valves long awned; corolla with the lower valve three-awned, the 





