32 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 



discovered it ; and we believe that no subsequent botanist has 

 ever met with it, except Mr. Kin, whose specimen in Muhlen- 

 berg's herbarium is merely ticketed " Deigher walli in der Wil- 

 ter7iusy Muhlenberg assigns the habitat, " Tiger Yalley, Penn- 

 sylvania ;" but Kin probably obtained his plant in Tygarfs Val- 

 ley, Virginia, a secluded vale among the western ranges of the 

 AUeghanies, (in Randolph County,) not far from Greenbrier 

 Mountains, and other localities visited by this collector, as his 

 tickets prove. Kin cultivated the plant for some time at Phila- 

 delphia, where it was seen by several botanists, and among them 

 by Pursh, who took it for the Mapania sylvatica of Aublet ; a 

 mistake which he did not discover whilst writing his Flora in 

 Europe, although he had the cultivated Carex Fraseriana be- 

 fore him. We were too late for good specimens, but succeeded 

 in obtaining a considerable number with the fruit still adherent. 

 The plant grows in tufts, after the manner of C. plantagiiiea ; 

 the evergreen leaves are a foot or more in length, and often an 

 inch and a half in width, with singularly undulate margins ; the 

 slender scapes are naked, except towards the root, where they 

 are sheathed by the convolute bases of the leaves. To the de- 

 scription of the spike, fruit, &c., we have nothing of any conse- 

 quence to add. 



Long before we reached the summit we again met with the 

 new Saxifraga* which we had previously gathered on the 

 mountains near Jefferson ; but we now found it in great abund- 

 ance, both in flower, and with mature fruit. It grew in the 



* Saxifkaga Careyana {spec, nov.) : foliis radicalibus longe petiolalis glabris 

 (tenuibiis) ovato-rotundis grosse crenato-dentatis basi truncatis vel subcordatis, 

 scapo graeili nudo apice paniculato-cymoso, floribus effusis, pedicillis filiformibus, 

 petalis lanceolato-oblongis sessilibus sepala recurvci plus duplo superantibus, car- 

 pellis discretis turgidis demum divaricatis calyce liberls. — Variat 1, scapo petiolis- 

 nue glabriusculis : 2, scapo, pedicillis, necnon pagina foliorum pills viscosis pubcs- 

 centibus : 3, scapo foliis aut bracteis foliaceis 1 — 2 instructo : 4, foliis ovalibus ob- 

 longisve, nunc argute dentatis, in petiolum plus minus attenuatis. 



Crescit in rupibus humidis opacis allissimorum montium comitatus Ashe, prse- 

 sertim ad montem Grandfather dictum, alt. 3500 — 5000 pedes. Junio floret. — 

 Herba spithamsea, rarius pedalis. Floras parvi. Petala consimilia, sessilia, subtri- 

 plinorvia, alba, immaculata. Filamenta subulato-filiforniia. Carpella ovoidea, 

 stylis brevibus apiculata, (stigmatibus subincrassatis,) basi vi.\ aut ne vix coalita, 

 ad maturitatcm per totam suturam ventralem debiscentia, ut in pleris Saxifragis 

 plus minus apocarpeis. Semina ovalia, striis elevatis denticulalis (per lentem au- 

 gentem) longitudinaliter notata. — Species distinctissima, habitu ad sect. Hijdati- 

 cam, sed characteribus ad Micranthcm accedens. 



