12 Botanical - 1 to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
his memory, and acknowledges the important services whieh he 
had rendered to that work during its progress. . 
- The name of Rarryesaur should also be mentioned in chieeadt 
nexion; since that botanist crossed the Alleghanies four or five 
times between 1818 and 1833, (in Pennsylvania, ee and 
the north of banageecd and also oxplowd the © phe ep Ge 
tains. ar 
Sie fave years since, the Peaks of Otter, in Apia viel 
ted by Mr. 8. B. Buckxtey; and still more recently the same bot- 
‘anist has explored the mountains in the upper part of Alabama 
and Georgia, and the adjacent borders of North Carolina. Among 
the interesting contributions which the authors of the Flora of 
‘North America have received from this source, I may here men- 
tion the Coreopsis latifolia of Michaux, which had not been 
found by any subsequent sn-aonenci ee it Seensceiea - Mr. 
Buckley in the autumn of 1840. — 
ae nabs eames ‘beanaiery ‘is 0 ‘well acquainted with ‘the 
eee’ J of - North Carolina’ 8 Somtenately. vas the Rev: Mr. M. a“ 
Curtis; who, when resident for a short time in their vicinity, 
sisited ae opportunity occurred, the Tabli in, Grandfa 
the Yellow Mountain, the Roan, the Black Mountain, ‘&el-and 
subsequently (although prevented by infirm health from making 
large collections) extended his researches through the counties af 
Haywood, Macon, and Cherokee, which form the narrow south- 
western extremity of North Carolina. ‘To him we are indebted 
for local information which greatly facilitated our recent journey, 
and, indeed, for a complete itinerarium of the region south of Ashe 
County. But, as the latter county had not been visited by Mr. 
Curtis, nor so far as we are aware by any other botanist, and be- 
ing from its situation the most accessible to a traveller from the 
north, we determined to devote to its examination the poet 
part of the time allotted to our own excursio: 
- Intending to reach this remote region by ie of the Valley of 
Virginia, we left New York on the evening of the 22d of June, 
and travelling by rail-road, reached Winchester, a distance of 
three hundred miles, before sunset of the following day. | At 
sores Ferry, where the Potomac, joined by the Shenandoah, 
fo ts way throt ; sh the Blue 2 Ridge, ‘in the midst of some of 
: scenery. in the United States, we merely 
