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Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
Ulmus alata, or often to all the elms indifferently. The bit- . 
ter and somewhat aromatic infusion of the green cones of both 
these Magnolias in whiskey or apple-brandy, is very extensively 
employed: as a preventive against intermittent fevers; an use 
which, as the younger Michaux remarks, would doubtless— be 
much less frequent, if, with the same: a ceive deme 
aqueous infusion were substituted. a i 
Nearly at the top of this moratisins we snaiegabie wateeivdiall 
tie awaiting our arrival in perfect helplessness, having con- 
trived to break his carriage upon-a heap of stones, and to over- 
throw his: horse into, the boughs of a prostrate tree. So much 
time was g the poor animal, and in tempo- 
rary repairs to the waggon, that we had barely time to descend 
conaapedaar the opposite side, and to seek lodgings for the 
tim the secluded valley of the South Fork of the Holston. 
aay shady places along the descent of this mountain, and in 
‘similar. situations. throughout the mountains of North Carolina, we 
found plenty c of the northern Listera convallarioides, in fine state, 
entirely similar to the. plant from Vermont, G: , DMewHannd. 
land, and the Northwest Coast, and agreeing completely with the 
figure of Swartz, (in Weber & Mohr, Beitrige zur Naturkunde 
_ 1. (1805) p. 2. ¢. 1,) and the recent one of Hook. Flora Bore - 
na. It is difficult to conceive why Willdenow should 
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cite the Ophrys cordata of Michaux under the Epipactis conval- 
larioides of Swartz, while there is so little accordance ‘in their 
characters; but this has not prevented Pursh from combining 
the specific phrase of the two authors into one, while he assigns 
slocality for the plant, (New Jersey,) where the Listera conval- 
certainly does. not grow. The Rev. Mr. Curtis, I be- 
lieve, first detected the plant in these mountains. 
- The next day, (July 1,) we crossed the Iron Mechlities (the 
great chain which divides the states of North Carolina and Ten- 
nessee, and which here forms the northwestern boundary of 
Grayson County, Virginia,) by Fox-Creek Gap, and: traversing 
the numerous tributaries of the North Fork of New River, which 
abundantly water this sequestered region, we slept a few miles 
beyond the boundary of North Carolina, after a journey of nearly 
ota a cerns nat be ps isla we found hotels or 
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