14 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
sailed ep ekey -seheaeesieatundlined end :Huphorbia..Leth 
must also be added to the list of eresapalaneid plants. The> little 
Verbena angustifolia is alsoa common weed. We collected but 
asingle indigenous plant of any interest, and one which we by 
no means expected to find, viz. Carer stenolepis of Torrey,* 
which here, as in the Western a to. o-whielt. ‘we: supposed ‘it 
confined, takes the place of the n » Wesearcl 
ed for its constant companion, C. Shortii, and th t dé ly we 
found the two growing together. © Daring + the day’s ride, we ob- 
served that the bearded wheat was almost exclusively cultivated, 
and were informed that it-had been found less subject to the rav- 
ages of the Eph tier: the: ordinary varieties; which may be 
owing to the recent introduction of the seed of the betnied vari- 
es districts unmolested by this insect. 
- The following day we travelled only sixteen thins on our att 
but from Mount Sidney made an interesting excursion on foot to 
Weyer’s Cave, one of the largest, and certainly the most remark- 
able grotto in the United States.. It has been so often described 
as to render any account on our part superfluous. Near the cave 
we saw some trees of rie P ree Mictne Vent. (T. alba, M 
f oe mt and solicetabmm few ray mens with unope ned fi em 
} +1. ae eee 
- or 
on en next aay offered “pte of interest. Near Staunton, 
we saw some patches of Delphinium Consolida, where it was 
*It is the C. Frankit of Kunth (1837,) and of Kunze’s Supplement to 
Schkuhr’s Caricography, where it is well figured : it was distributed among Dr. 
Frank's s plarits under the name of C. atherodes, and with the locality of Baltimore 
in Pe ia! I had always supposed it to be derived from some part of the 
. States ; ; but since it abounds in the Valley of Virginia, it may have been 
collected near Baltimore, Maryland! By the way, we hope the excellent eollec- 
tions distributed from time to time by the Unio Itineraria are in general, more 
correctly ticketed than poor Frank’s small collection from the United States. .Not 
to venture beyond the Carices, we may remark that the plant distributed under the 
name of C. blanda is C. Careyana, binom fs their C. plant agin eais C, ele and 
their C. Vieckii is a variety of the ; their C. tribuloides, Wahl., 
C. festucacea ; their C. seh ic Aapalie var. dba ideii (C. Fitrhacckiitam of; Dewey 
isa large form of C. oligocarpa, Schk. (the true C. oligocarpa of Schkukr, but 
nek or wher authors, being a small state of Prof. Dewey's C. Hitchcockiana ;) a 
that the C. Ohiotica, (formosa, Dewey ?) Hochst., is €. Shortiz. This last, we titi 
add; is the C. Jorn of amt Cyprari, which will account for the dis- 
y between | ‘ sere pa eres The. €. . juncea 
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