30 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
not hesitate to consider it a distinct species. 'The subjoined di- 
agnostic character will doubtless suflice for its discrimination.* _ 
On the 7th of July, we started for the high mountains farther 
south, having hired a cumbrous and unsightly, but convenient 
tilted waggon, with a pair of horses and a driver, (who rode one 
of the horses, according to the usual custom of this region,) for 
the eanivayanes of our luggage, and which afforded us, at inter- 
vals, the luxury of reposing on straw at the bottom, while we 
were dragged along the rate of two or three miles per hour. 
Our first day’s journey, of about twenty four miles, was some- 
what tedious, as we found no new plants of any interest. We 
saw, however, a variety of Lonicera parviflora? with larger 
leaves and flowers than ordinary, the latter dull purplish; prob- 
ably the Caprifolium bracteosum, var. floribus violaceo-pur 
of Michaux. 'The following morning we reached the Watauga 
River (a tributary of the Holston) ; and leaving our driver to fol- 
low up the banks of the stream to the termination of the road at 
the foot of the Grandfather, we ascended an adjacent mountain, 
called Hanging-rock, and reached our quarters for the night by 
a different route. The fine and close view of the rugged Girand- 
father amply rewarded the toil of ascending this’ <a, 
where we also obtained the Gewm (Sieversia) radiatum, 
the most showy species of the genus. The brilliant Pape 
flowers have a disposition to double, even in the wild state, in 
which we often found as many as eight or nine petals. This 
tendency would doubtless be fully developed by cultivation. 
Around the base of these mountains we saw Blephilia nepetoi- 
des, and another Labiate plant not yet in flower, which we took 
for Pycnanthemum montanum, Miche. 
The next day (July 9th) we ascended the Grandfather, the 
highest as well as the most rugged and savage mountain we had 
yet attempted; although by no means the most elevated in 
* CARDAMINE ROTUNDIFOLIA (Michz.): glaberrima decumbens, stolonibus re- 
pentibus, radice fibrosa, foliis omnibus conformibus (radicalibus sepe trisectis, sr 
mentis lateralibus parvis,) petiolatis rotundatis plerumque subcordatis integriuse 
lis vel repando sinuatis, siliquis parvis stylo subulatis, stigmate ee semini- 
bus ovalibus.—C, rotundifolia, Michx. fl. 2. p. 30; Hook. bot. misc. 3. t. 109. (statu 
ae - exemplis Carolinianis folia caulinia magis petiolata) ; : ers fi. 
. 2. p. 3e4. c. a eon sale & Gray, #. NV. Amer. . 83 
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