48 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of Noi 
bling the leaves of the vine in size and shape, as remarked by 
DeCandolle ; in one instance we found them ten enna in 1 diam- 
eter; but they are generally much smaller and more divided, 
apparently passing into the former species. The number of the 
ai does not afford marked characters, since the lowest flow- 
of C. racemosa sometimes present.two, while the upper ones 
of C. cordifolia are almost always monogynous. 
“We were too early in the season. for several i interesting Ses, 
especially Composite, and did not extend our researches far 
enough south to obtain many others; such as Hudsonia mon- 
tana, which appears to be confined to Table Mountain, Rhodo- 
dendron punctatum, Stuartia pentagyna, Philadelphus hirsutus, 
Silene ovata (which Mr. Curtis found in Buncombe and Hay- 
wood —— Berberis Canadensis (which however Pursh 
: the mountains of Greenbrier in Virginia), Parnassia 
enribiin, ” (which according to Mr. Curtis first appears in Yancey 
County, but Pursh procured it from “ mountain runs on the 
Pond Mountain, Virginia, and on the top of the Alleghanies near 
Christiansburg,” ) and, above all, the new Thermopsis ! (T. Caro- 
liniana, M. A. Curtis, mss.) recently discovered by our friend Mr. 
Curtis, in Haywood and Cherokee Counties. We were likewise 
Unsuccessful in our search for a remarkable undescribed plant, 
with the habit of Pyrola and the foliage of Galax, which was 
obtained by Michaux in the high mountains of Carolina. The 
only specimen extant is among the ‘ Plante incognite’ of the 
Michauxian herbarium, in fruit only; and we were anxious to 
obtain flowering specimens, that we might complete its history ; 
as Ihave long wished to dedicate the plant to Prof. Short, of 
Kentucky, whose attainments and eminenj services in North 
American botany are well known and ee: both at home 
and abroad.* 
* SHORTIA,. Torrey & Gray. 
Calyx ep AY ; sepala meaner squamacen, striata, sige exteri- 
. St e, 
ora ovata, interiora oblonga. Cor amina apsula e brevior, 
subglobosa, stylo fliformi sidjaltnedic superata, fritocataria: toculie side trival- 
vis, valvis medio septiferis, placenta centrali magna persistente. Semina multa, 
parva; testa sree conformis. Embryo teres, fectiuscalos, albumine brevior.— 
Herba cespitosa ? subacaalis, perenpi, ae ; foliis lo rH rotundatis, 
subcordatis, petess ‘nune tis, atu scapi 
_ nudis. 
GALACIFOLIA, Torr. ec ink Micke cum schedula, 
‘ dine neontagase de Carolinie. An Pyrola spec.? an genus novum ?’) 
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