58 Botany of the White-Mountains. 



fortunately lost half of mine, in descending a gulley. 

 While we were labouring up the mountain, I twice ex- 

 claimed, a Heath ! and was as often disappointed. The 

 first shrub I took for one was Empetrum nigrum : the 

 other I believed to be an Erica, till my arrival at home. 

 It seems more allied to Andromeda ; its leaves are nearly 



of the size and figure of those of our Hemlock-Fir. 



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" I found Azalea procumbens and Azalea Lapponica, 

 and I am almost sure of Diapensia Lapponica. Dr. 

 Cutler mentioned his having seen something which ap- 

 peared like a Tulip, when he was on the mountains 

 formerly. We had the good fortune to meet with it, 

 and it proved Bartsia pallida. We found Vaccinium 

 oxycoccos (not macrocarpon) ; some other species of 

 Vaccinium ; a small shrub, in fruit, which seems a Kal- 

 mia, and a few other plants. On the very summit, I 

 collected a Clerus formicarius, and one other species of 

 the same genus. In the woods, at the foot of the moun- 

 tain, some of our company collected a fine specimen of 

 Michaux's Streptopus, in fruit, but we could not save 

 it*. Some of these plants have never before been col- 

 lected, or in any other place, I believe, in the United- 

 States, which indicates that the White-Mountains are 

 the highest in the United- States." 



* All Michaux's species of Streptopus are natives of the moun- 

 tains of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and other parts of the United- 

 States, where they were (if I do not mistake) first discovered by 

 the younger Mr. Marshall, who named the genus Bartonia. 

 Editor. 



