meee 
6 ge aE, MATOS Ph EPR 
ELS ike ee igs 
‘ rag 2 
=] 
[7 ee Pees |e > een eee eed rH th, Mountains of North Carolina. 35 
_ Near the summit of the mountain, we saw immense quantities 
of a low but very large-leaved Solidago, not yet in flower, which 
I take to be the S. glomerata of Michaux, who could not have 
failed to observe such a conspicuous and abundant plant, espe- 
cially as it must have been in full. blossom. at the time he as- 
cended this mountain. It does not, however, altogether accord 
- with Michaux’s description, nor does that author notice the size 
the heads, which in our plant are among the largest of the 
genus. Specimens i in flower were procured by Mr. Curtis, who 
visited this mountain at a more favorable season. With the lat- 
ter, we found a Geum, which Mr. Curtis had formerly observed 
on the Roan Mountain, (where we afterwards met with it in 
great abundance, ) and referred, I think correctly, to G. genicula- 
tum, Miche., although that species is said to have been collected 
in Canada. The lower portion of the style is less hairy in our 
Specimens than in Michaux’s plant, a difference which, if con- 
stant, is perhaps not of specific importance. In the subjoined 
character, I have-supplied an inadvertent omission in the Flora 
of North America, where the sessile head of carpels, which so 
readily distinguishes this species from G‘. rivale, is not men- 
tioned.* Here we again found Vaccinium erythrocarpum, as 
already mentioned; and obtained beautiful flowering specimens 
of Menziesia globularis, a strageing witled which in this pigs 
attains the — “s five or awentain 
ee ee ee é 5 Wel ie shibon 
wa ee) eee : e ~~ , Met oe 
* Geom ceases wee inet adil: sihspaitininn sessili, articulo sty 
superiore plumoso inferiorem pubescentem excedente, achenio hirsuto, petalis 
cuneato- -obovatis (nunc SEE aut leviter obcordatis) exunguiculatis calycem 
equa antibus; floribus mox erecti 
8. Macreanum: articulo styl inferiore sursum glabrescente.—G. Macreanum, 
M.A. Curtis, in litt. 
-Crescit i in Canada ex Michawx: an recte? Var. 8. in umbrosis ad montes 
randfather et Roan, Caroline NA ae alt. 5500—6000 pedes, ubi impri- 
mis detexit el. Curtis. Julio floret.—Caulis a eat — "felines inferne 
pilis rigidiusculis watraniie; superne pilis mollibus patenti erebrioribus villosus. 
Folia membranacea ; radicalia nunc palmatim 3-secta, nunc interrupte pinnati- 
secta, haud rariusque indivisa vel sublobata in eodem stirpe ; eaulinia trisecta tri- 
, lobis acutis ; superiora sessilia.' Flores minores et numerosiores quam 
in G. rivali: petala albida; venis purpurascentibus. “Styli pars inferior portione 
mum multo, postremum modice brevior, in exemplo Michz. manifeste, 
at juxta apicem parce piloso-pubescens ; in var. 8, superne glabrata. 
Should the Carolina plant poi prove to be a distinct ay it will of 
course retain the name proposed by Mr. Curtis, in honor of his fri nd ; 1 
associate in botanical labors, Dr. James F. McRee, of Wilmin, ngten, Novthi abel 1Z 
