8 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
visited Table Mountain on the 5th of September, and proceeded, 
(by way of Morganton, Lincolnton, Salisbury, and Fayetteville, 
North Carolina,) to Charleston, where he passed the winter. 
cended the Wateree, or Catawba, to Flat-Rock Creek, visited Flat. 
Rock,* crossed Hanging-Rock Creek, and ascended the Little Oa- 
tawba to Lincolnton. In the early part of May he revisited Lin- 
ville Mountain, the Yellow Mountain, the Roan, and some 
others, and then descended Doe River and the Holston to Knox- 
ville, 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 
Hlinois River, and devoted 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 as- 
cended 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 ees: 19th of ett and after maki 
a journey to Louisville and back again, he started for Carolina at 
- ae set Francaise.” If this enthusiasm were called forth by mere elevation, 
should have chanted his pwans on the Black Mountain and the Roan, both of 
higher than the Grandfather. 1 
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Pier) 3 believe this is the only instance in which the name of Flat Rock occurs in 
Michaux’ s journal; it is in South rink oy not far from Camden. Here, without 
doubt, he discovered Sedum pusillum, Sheena Nutt.) the habitat of which is 
said to be “in Carolina Septentrionali, loco dic Rock.”’ Mr. Nuttall, who 
subsequently collected the plant at the same \écokey. inadvertently continued this 
mistake, by assigning the habitat, “‘ Flat Rock near Camden, North Carolina,’ as 
well in his Genera of N. American plants, as in a letter to Dr. Short on this sub- 
ject. (Vide, Short on Western Botany, in the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, 
and in Hooker’s Juurnal of Botany, for Nov, 1840, p. 103.) Hence some co 
has arisen respecting the locality of this interesting plant, since there is botha 
Flat Rock, and a village named Camden in North Citing tires the two are 
widely separated. After all, Pursh’s habitat, “on flat rocks in North Carolina, 
and elsewhere,” proves sufficien ntly correct, ‘tities Mr. Nanall ‘himself, and also 
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