Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina, 35 



Near the summit of the mountain, we saw immense quantities 

 of a low but very large-leaved Solidago, not yet in flower, which 

 I take to be the S. glomerata of Michaux, who could not have 

 failed to observe such a conspicuous and abundant plant, espe- 

 cially as it must have been in full blossom at the time he as- 

 cended this mountain. It does not, however, altogether accord 

 with Michaux's description, nor does that author notice the size 

 of the heads, which in our plant are among the largest of the 

 genus. Specimens in flower were procured by Mr, Curtis, who 

 visited this mountain at a more favorable season. With the lat- 

 ter, we found a Geuni, which Mr, Curtis had formerly observed 

 on the Roan Mountaiti, (where we afterwards met with it in 

 great abundance,) and referred, I think correctly, to G. genicula- 

 turn, Michi:, although that species is said to have been collected 

 in Canada. The lower portion of the style is less hairy in our 

 specimens than in Michaux's plant, a difference which, if con- 

 stant, is perhaps not of specific importance. In the subjoined 

 character, I have supplied an inadvertent omission in the Flora 

 of North America, where the sessile head of carpels, which so 

 readily distinguishes this species from G. rivale, is not men- 

 tioned,* Here we again found Vaccinium erythrocarpum, as 

 already mentioned ; and obtained beautiful flowering specimens 

 of Menziesia globularis, a straggling shrub which in this place 

 attains the height of five or six feet. 



* Geum geniculatum (Michz.) : capitulo carpellorum sessili, articulo styli 

 superiore plumoso inferiorem pubescentem excedente, achenio hirsute, petalis 

 cuneato-obovatis (nunc emarginatis aut leviter obcordatis) exunguiculatis calj^cem 

 aequantibus ; floribus mox erectis. 



p. Macreanum : articulo styli inferiore sursum glabrescente, — G. Macreanum, 

 M. Jl. Curtis, in lift. 



Crescit in Canada ex Michaux : an recte ? Var. p. in umbrosis ad monies 

 Grandfather et Roan, Carolinse Septentrionalis, alt. 5500 — 6000 pedes, ubi impri- 

 mis detexit cl. Curtis. Julio floret. — Caulis 2-3-pedalis, gracilis, foiiosus, inferne 

 pilis rigidiusculis retrorsis, superne pilis mollibus patentibus crebrioribus villosus. 

 Folia membranacea ; radicalia nunc palmatim 3-secta, nunc interrupte pinnati- 

 secta, baud rariusque indivisa vel sublobata in eodem stirpe ; caulinia trisecta tri- 

 lobatave, lobis acutis ; superiora sessilia. Flores minores et numerosiores quam 

 in G. rivali : petala albida, venis purpurascentibus. Styli pars inferior portione 

 plumosa primum multo, postremum modice brevier, in exemplo Michx. manifeste, 

 at juxtaapicem parce piioso-pubescens ; in var. (3. superne glabrata. 



Should the Carolina plant hereafter prove to be a distinct species, it will of 

 course retain the name proposed by Mr. Curtis, in honor of Jiis friend and former 

 associate in botanical labors, Dr. James F. McRee, of Wilmington, North Carolina. 



