2 Botanical.Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
- Cherokee country, in the spring of 1776. In this journey, he as- 
cended the Seneca or Keowee River, one of the principal sources 
of the Savannah, and crossing the mountains which divide its 
waters from those of the Tennessee, he continued his travels 
along the course of the latter to the borders of the present State of 
Tennessee. Finding that his researches could not safely be ex- 
tended in that direction, after exploring some of the higher moun- 
tains in the neighborhood, he retraced his steps to the Savannah. 
River, proceeding thence through Georgia and Alabama to Mobile. 
His well-known and very interesting volume of Travels,* contains 
numerous observations upon the botany of these regions, with oc- 
casional popular descriptions, and in a few cases Latin characters 
of some remarkable plants; as, for example, the Rhododendon 
punctatum (which he calls R. ferrugineum), Stuartia pentagyna 
(under the name of S. montana), Azalea calendulacea (which he 
terms A. flammea), 7'rautvetteria, which he took for a new spe- 
cies of Hydrastris, Magnolia auriculata, &c. He also notices 
the remarkable intermixture of the vegetation of the north and 
south, which occurs in this portion of the mountains; where 
Halesia, Styraz, Stuartia, and Gelsemium,+ (although the lat- 
ter ‘“‘is killed by a very slight frost in the open air in Pennsylva- 
sistas seen enentniary by the side of the birches, maples, and 
firs of Canada. 
I should next mention the name 2 of Anpré Micuavux, who, at 
an early period, amidst difficulties and privations of which few 
can now form an adequate conception, explored our country from 
Hudson’ s «Bay to Florida, and westward to the Mississippi, more 
botanist. A few of his plants 
have:not. yet it“ Aeotet rediscovered, and a considerable number 
remain among the rarest and least known species of the Uni- 
ted States; it may therefore be useful to give a somewhat par- 
ticular account of his peregrinations, especially through the moun- 
tain region which he so diligently explored, and in. which ‘he 
* Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East pe West Florida, 
the Cherokee country, &c. ; by Wittiam Bartram. Philadelphia, Wel 
t Dr. Torrey has directed my attention to an unaccountable mistake into 
the lea Endlicher must have fallen, i in SA ing 
ticularly in the supplement his, eaeed ‘p. 1396), where it tre 
lished as a new tribe of. @,and a fit o iil 8 
ds, attributed to it exter the characters gi 
