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contains a large amount of North Carolina species 

 not included in the former paper. These were the 

 first treatises of the kind produced in this country, 

 and the list of species given in the following report 

 will embrace a large number derived from them. 

 This learned and most estimable^gentleman, a worthy 

 descendant of the celebrated Count Zinzendorf, de- 

 parted this life, February, 1834, at the age of fifty- 

 four years. 



The Rev. Dr. Mitchell, during one period of his 

 Professorship at our University, was an assiduous cul- 

 tivator of botanical science, and had made a consid- 

 erable collection of specimens, which he generously 

 shared with Dr. Schweinitz and myself. I am in- 

 debted to him for several species which had other- 

 wise been yet unknown to our North Carolina Flora. 

 A species of Carex, named after him, commemorates 

 his devotion to the beautiful science. This is a petty 

 tribute to his name ; but others have honored it in 

 better proportion to its worth. Mt. Mitchell, the 

 loftiest summit of the Black Mountain range, the 

 witness of his laudable triumph when he first ascer- 

 tained its surpassing height, and which alone saw the 

 sad catastrophe of liis death in the darkness of night 

 and storm, is his noble monument and his tomb. 



Dr. Cyrus L. Hunter, of Lincoln County, has 

 devoted considerable attention to the study of plants 

 in his vicinity, and I am indebted to him for infor- 

 mation which will be acknowledged in another place. 

 He publislied in the Charlotte Journal (for 1834 ?) 



