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the Valley of Virginia until we finally crossed the Blue Ridge 
and quitted the mountain region. Yet we suffered little incon- 
venience on this account, as we were cordially received at the 
farm-houses along the road , and entertained according to the 
means and ability of the owners ; who seldom hesitated either to 
make a moderate charge, or to mochipith picker proper compensation for 
their hospitality, which we therefore did not hesitate to solicit, 
from time to time. On the Iron Mountains, we met with nearly 
all the species we had collected during the previous day, and with 
a single additional plant of much interest, viz. the Boykinia aco- 
nitifolia, Nutt. We found it in the greatest abundance and lux- 
uriance on the southern side of the mountain, near the summit, 
along the rocky margins of a small brook, which for a short dis- 
tance were completely covered with the plant. It here attains 
the height of two feet or more; the stems, rising from a thick 
rhizoma, (and clothed below, as well as the petioles, with decid- 
uous rusty hairs,) are terminated by a panicle of small cymes, 
which at first are crowded, but at length are loose, with the flow- 
ers mostly unilateral. The rather large, pure white petals are 
deciduous after flowering, not marcescent as in Sazifraga and 
Heuchera.— We did not again meet with this plant ; but Mr. 
Curtis collected it several years ago near the head of Linville 
myst Me.-Buckley aniond it in a the: mountains of Alabama. 
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not described i in his’ Flora, Pursh eotlected- it on the 
pea in Virginia.* I have little doubt that the Sazifraga 
Richardsonti would be more correctly transferred to Boykinia, 
as well as the S. ranunculifolia ; and, since the S. elata of Nut- 
tall, in Torrey and Gray’s F'lora, is referred to Boykinia occiden- 
talis, in the supplement to that work, no pentandrous Saxifrage 
remains, except the ambiguous S. Sullivantii, Torr. & Gr. 
But the authors of the Flora, having received fruiting specimens 
of this interesting plant, do not hesitate to remove it from the 
on to which a was provisionally appended, ‘and to Secale it 
* "s Phe specimen in Prof. Barton’s herbarium (in fruit), j is ticketed by Pursh: 
“ Heuchera villosa, Michz.? Salt-Pond SPIES under the naked knob, neara 
“spring. This spring is the highest I have seen.” —I know not the exact situation 
of this mountain, from which Pursh beeen many interesting plants. 
Boykinia aconitifolia, 1 may remark, would be a very rea ar in cul iva- 
tion, and 1 might be expected to endure the winter of New } i 
