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spent. This is a summer resort, in the crest of the Blue Ridge, 

 at 4000 feet elevation. Grandfather was the first mountain 

 visited. This grand old mountain, classic in the annals 

 of southern botany as the foraging ground of botanists 

 from the elder Michaux to the present time, stands like an 

 immense sentinel some ten miles west of Blowing Rock. 

 Trips were also made to Table Rock (which Dr. Gray always 

 would call Table Mountain), thirty-five miles distant, and to 

 Roan, fifty miles west. Three new species were collected : 

 Solidago Roanemis Porter, on the slopes of Roan ; Liatris 

 Helleri Porter, on the " blowing rock," and Lotus Helleri 

 Britton, at Heilig's Mill. Pentstemon Smallii Heller was 

 collected in fruit, but not named until four years later. 



So well pleased were he and Mr. Small with the results 

 of this trip, that they decided to make it in company 

 during the next vacation. Accordingly, early in June they 

 started, stopping at Lynchburg, Virginia, to make a side 

 trip to Roanoke. Here they obtained a number of rare 

 plants, among them the recently published Oxalis grandis 

 Small and Oxalis recurva Ell. A stop was also made at 

 Fall Creek, near Danville, and a number of species col- 

 lected, one of which was Senecio Smallii Britton. Only a 

 few days were spent at Heilig's Mill, and by June 10, 

 they were quartered at Blowing Rock. Pentstemon 

 Smallii, with its handsome rose-purple flowers, was in 

 full bloom, and so, too, was Rhododendron Catawbiense, 

 and occasional belated bushes of Azalea lutea. Two 

 delightful months were spent in the mountains. Grand- 

 father was visited three times, and Roan and Table 

 Rock once. On the slopes of Grandfather the long- 

 neglected Lilium Carolinianum Michaux was found in 



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