10 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
visited the Southern States in 1807; and the latter, after the de- 
cease of the father in 1811, -rettlinned to” wnt penny _ eames 
ued his indefatigable Fdeontohies until 1 
Many of the rarest plants of these nica ere made nowt, ae 
especially to English gardens and r. Joun Lyon, 
Whose’ indefatigable researches are” “highly spoken’ of by Pursh, 
Elliott. Tt bith 
mountains previous to annie aes charge of Mr. 
¢ollections near Iphia, whietehe 
Ata later period, how 
from Georgia’ as far north at s the - | 
ser died at Asheville, in BancbaibeCo!> erty Carolina, some- 
dine sebegen AGM ave"1818)° Tam informed by my friend 
Rev. Mr. Curtis, that his journals and a portion of his herbarium 
were preserved at Asheville for many ines and that it is — 
ble they may yet be found. 
~~ Mrcuavx the younger, utieew of he Syloa’ siontidieing nites 
accompanied his father in some of his earlier journeys, returned 
to this country in 1801, and crossed the Alleghany Mountains 
twice; first in Pennsylvania prt rn ‘estern States, 
sad the next year in North Ca | u - a 
Tr erossing from Jonesboro’, T to Morgant ray 
Toe River, (not Doe River, as stated pinaneraetoigye RO 
ally stopped at the house of Davenport, his father’s guide in these 
mountains. The observations of the younger Michaux on this 
part of the Alleghany Mountains, in achapter of his pee bat 
voted to that subject, are mainly accurate. 
~' “Tr the beginning of 1805,” Pursu, as he states in the pre- 
face to his Flora, “ set out for the mountains and westerti territo- 
ries of the Southern States, beginning at Maryland and extending 
to the Carolinas, (in which tract the ifiteresting high mountains 
of Virginia and Carolina took my particular wei. ant res 
turning late in the autumn through the lower along the 
sea-coast to Philadelphia.” This plan, however, was” not fully 
carried out, since he does not appear to have crossedthe Alle- 
ghanies into the _ Western Valley, nor to have botanized 
pain mounte rer sribeensenSrermalis ent ‘the: New: River 
