32 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 
discovered it; and we believe that no subsequent botanist has 
ever met witli it, except Mr. Kin, whose specimen in Muhlen- 
berg’s herbarium is merely diakéted “ Deigher walli in der Wil- 
ternus.” Muhlenberg assigns the habitat, “'Tiger Valley, Penn-_. 
sylvania;” but Kin probably obtained his plant in Tygart’s Val- 
ley, Virginia, a secluded vale among the western ranges of the 
Alleghanies, (in Randolph County,) not far from Giesabtier 
Mountains, and other localities visited by this collector, as his 
tickets prove. Kin cultivated the plant for some time at Phila- 
delphia, where it was seen by sev several botanists, and among them | 
by Pursh, who table! it for the Mapania sylvatica of Aublet ; 
mistake which he did not discover whilst writing his Flotd in 
Europe, although he had the cultivated Carer Fraseriana be- 
fore him. We were too late for good specimens, but succeeded 
in obtaining a considerable number with the fruit still adherent. 
The plant grows in tufts, after the manner of C. plantaginea ; 
the evergreen leaves are a foot or more in length, and often an 
inch and a half in width, with singularly undulate margins; the 
slender scapes are naked, except towards the root, where they 
are sheathed by the convolute bases of the leaves. 'T'o the de- “3 
scription of the spike, fruit, &c., we have nothing of any eaune- 
quence to a 
Long beltirs we reached the summit we again met with its 
new Sazifraga,* which we had previously gathered on the 
mountains near Jefferson; but we now found it in great abund- 
ance, both in flower, iid with mature fruit. It grew in the 
xiFRAGA Cargyana (spec. nov.): foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis glabris 
Ceenltieia} ovato-rotundis grosse crenato-dentatis basi truncatis vel subcordatis, j 
scapo gracili nudo apice paniculato-cymoso, floribus effusis, pedicillis filiformibus, 
petalis tan ceatai-ablongie sessilibus sepala recurva plus duplo superantibus, car- 
centibus: 3, apa folie aut bracteis fo liaceis 1—2 instructo : 4, foliis ovalibus ob- 
ongisve, nunc argute dentatis, in petohen plus minus attenuatis. 
-Crescit in rupibus humidis opacis altisstmorum montium comitatus Ashe, pre- 
sertim ad montem Grandfather dictum, alt. 3500—5000 pedes. Junio floret.— 
Herba spithamea, rarius pedalis. Flores parvi. Petala consimilia, sessilia, subtri- } 
plinervia, alba, immaculata. Filamenta subulato-filiformia. Carpella ovoidei, ig 
sn walerres apiculata, oo, subincrassatis,) basi vix aut ne vix coalita, 
tem pet totam, egret entralent debigoehtis; me in pleris Saxifragis i 
pius 1 Pp Semina ovalia, d (per Jentem au- | 
, a SE te Nei eae % ne * . 
; aliter ne My ies distinctissima, rote ad sect. Hydati- 
eee . a ee at. 1 4 
