side; and eared to be aeialty fone ie An 
States, we here niall oniei in the iy open wdeds of the Bluff 
Mountain, and in similar places farther south. The flowers are 
pure white or cream-color, in a deuse and very showy raceme, at 
length changing to green. The cattle, which roam inthe woods 
for a great part of the year, are sometimes poisoned by feeding, 
as is supposed, on the foliage of this plant during the autumn: 
hence its name of Fall-poison. The wild Pea-vine, which is so 
highly prized as an autumnal food for cattle, is the Amphicar- 
pea* The Lily of the Valley, (Convallaria majalis,) which 
we occasionally met with in fruit, appears to be identical with 
the European plant. It extends from the mountains of Virginia. 
to Georgia, where it was long ago noticed by the younger Bar- 
tram. We also collected a_lhandsome Phlox, of frequent occur- 
rence in rich woods, which differs from P. Carolina (with 
which it has perhaps been confounded) in its perfectly smooth 
stem, and broader, less pointed ealyx-teeth. The leaves are 
sometimes an inch in width, and four or five in length; the 
uppermost often ovatesandeolata, and more or- ess cordate. at 
the base. ee 
A species of Carex, sista allied to €. etacieta, storie 
the greatest abundance on all the higher mountains of North 
Carolina, forming tufts on the earth or on rocks, and flowering 
throughout the summer. On this account it is called C. estiva- 
lis by Mr. Curtis, who discovered it several years since, and 
genres out its “oman We also met with C. canescens, 
* In the large woods, the surface of the soil is covered with a species of wild 
peas, which rise three feet above the earth, and of which the cattle are very 
greedy. They prefer this pasture to every other, and when removed from it they 
fall away, or make their escape to return to it. "—Michaus , (F. A.) Travels, p. 316. 
t C. mstivawis (M. A. Curtis, ined.) : s 3-5 gracilibus laxifloris suberec- 
tis, infima pedu neula ta, ceteris Subsesilibus, sal ema androgyna inferne mascula, 
squamam ovatam obtusam (nune mucronatam) duplo superantibus, stigmatibus 
tribus, vaginis foliorum inferiorum pubescentibus. 
Hab. a montibus altioribus Caroling Septentrionalis ubique. Julio-—Augusto 
floret.— ime nimis affinis ; a1 diversa, culmis foliisque gracilioribus, vagi- 
nis aes pubescentibus ; - bracteis vix Waginantibas ; spicis angustioribus et laxi- 
floris erectis, rihus- atis ; acheniis slavetewite?) ma- 
gis stipitatis. ¢ 
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