B tania E'rcursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 47 
lium; Gray, which is doubtless the Helonias gsraminea of the 
Botanical Magazine. We also made an excursion to the White 
Top, in Virginia, twenty miles northwest from Jefferson ; a moun- 
tain of the same character as the Roan, but on a sinaller scale, 
- and with the pasturage of its summit more closely fed. We 
: not rewarded, however, with any new plants, and the 
cloudy weather obscured the prospect, which is said to be very 
extensive. On our return, we found Cedronella cordata, Benth., 
nearly out of flower, with runners often two or thine’: feet in 
length. Mr. Bentham has omitted to mention the agreeable bal- 
samic odor of the genus, which in our plant is much less power- 
ful than in C. triphylla. We saw plenty of Cimicifuga Amer- 
icana, but the flowers were still unexpanded. Our endeavors to 
obtain the fruit of Cimicifuga cordifolia (common in this region, ) 
were likewise unsuccessful ; without which it is not always easy 
to distinguish this species from C. racemosa. The leaflets of 
the former are frequently . large, the terminal ones resem- 
$5. — e@qualiter dentatuis. pong oon eh ag corymbosi, terminales, ——— brac- 
teis laxis, interioribus brevissimis. Qvaria calva. Folia brevia, remotiuscula 
13. P. nupum (Nutt.): glabrum pallide virens, dentibus calycis a sweeten Sansbicaiee 
brevibus us pilosis, bracteis exeporiags aaah gsc ee brevissimis subu- 
latis ; foliis ova to-oblongis 
‘$6. Cilps plied dinates Verticillasiri compl in bracteis dapat ee 
solitarit ES aut sepius inestin Soliorum parium np alan ie 
14. P. ian tele apete ‘isltics, racy i ‘pouniostuats Vlhieoctith tie, 
terioribus ovatis intimis linearibus, dentibus calyeis brevibus acutis, foliis ovato-lanceola- 
? glabris.—P. montanum, Nutt. gen. 
2. P- 33, et, sic opinor, Miche. fl. 2, p. 8: igitur Monardella montana, Benth. Lab. p. 331. 
-inaltis montibus Caroline, Michaux. Ad jugum quod dicit “ Catawba Ridge,” 
. Ad radi 
te 
venit Curtis. Julio-Augusto floret.—Caulis 1-3-pedalis, simplex vel ramosus. Folia sub- 
Membranacea; inferiora 2-3-pollicaria, lanceolato-ovata, basi rotundata, petiolo brevi: 
iora magis 
lanceolata, sensim acuminata, basi acuta subsessilia ; pagina superior, 
Tami, et sepe bractee, d li expesite, purpurascentes. Brac uminatissime ; 
s equantes. Calyx tubulosus, pilis conspersus, denique subglabratus ; den 
tibus brevibus triangul i is purpureis notata, rin- 
ens ; labio inferiore profunde trilobato, lobo medio longiore ; superiore integro ! 
4 ina longule exserta : anthers loculis parallelis. gg lobi (ut in ceteris pyeanatheriaie) 
inequales. Ovaria penaea 
ecw fant te 
P. monarpetta, Michz. erisimiliter est Monarde species! (cf. adnot. nani Cer- 
tissime Monarda e iii teciaoses: Pursh! (fide herb. Lamb. et herb. Bart.) etia m Eliottii! 
_ P.verticturatum, Pers. _(Brachystemum sane ssasre Michz. fl. 2 pe 6. esniat 
Species mihi valde dubia. A 
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