8 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. ' 



visited Table Mountain on the 5th of September, and proceeded, 

 (by way of Morganton, Lincolnton, SaHsbnry, and Fayetteville, 

 North Carolina,) to Charleston, where he passed the winter. 



On the 19th day of April, 1795, our indefatigable traveller 

 again set out, reached the Santee River at Nelson's Ferry, as- 

 cended the Wateree, or Catawba, to Flat-Rock Creek, visited Flat 

 Rock* crossed Hanging-Rock Creek, and ascended the Little Ca- 

 tawba to Lincolnton. In the early part of May he revisited Lin- 

 ville Mountain, the Yelloio Mountain, the Roan, and some 

 others, and then descended Doe River and the Holston to Knox- 

 ville, Tennessee. Thence, crossing the Cumberland Mountains, 

 and a wilderness one hundred and twenty miles in extent, he 

 arrived at Nashville on the 16th of June, at Danville, Kentucky, 

 on the 27th, and at Louisville on the 20th of July. In August 

 he ascended the Wabash to Yincennes, crossed the country to the 

 Illinois River, and devoted the months of September, October, 

 and November, to diligent herborizations along the course of that 

 river, the Mississippi, the lower part of the Ohio, and throughout 

 the country included by these rivers. In December, he descended 

 the Mississippi in a small boat to the mouth of the Ohio, and as- 

 cended the latter and the Cumberland to Clarksville, which he 

 reached on the 10th of January, 1796, after a perilous voyage in 

 the most inclement weather. Leaving that place on the 16th, 

 he arrived at Nashville on the 19th of January ; and after making 

 a journey to Louisville and back again, he started for Carolina at 



la Republique Fran<^aise." If this enthusiasm were called forth by mere elevation, 

 he should have chanted his pceans on the Black Mountain and the Roan, both of 

 which are higher than the Grandfather. 



* I believe this is the only instance in which the name of Flat Rock occurs in 

 Michaux's journal; it is in South Carolina, not far from Camden. Here, without 

 doubt, he discovered Sedum pusilhim, (Diamorpha, JYutt.) the habitat of which is 

 said to be " in Carolina Septentrionali, loco dicto Flat Rock." Mr. Nuttall, who 

 subsequently collected the plant at the same locality, inadvertently continued this 

 mistake, by assigning the habitat, " Flat Rock near Camden, JVorth Carolina," as 

 well in his Genera of JV. American plants, as in a letter to Dr. Short on this sub- 

 ject. (Vide, Short on Western Botany, in the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, 

 and in Hooker's Journal of Botany, for Nov. 1840, p. 103.) Hence some confusion 

 has arisen respecting the locality of this interesting plani, since there is both a 

 Flat Rock, and a village named Camden in North Carolina, although the two are 

 widely separated. After all, Pursh's habitat, " on flat rocks in North Carolina, 

 and elsewhere," proves sufficiently correct, since Mr. Nuttall himself, and also 

 Mr. Curtis, and others, have subsequently obtained it in such situations near Salis- 

 bury in that state, and Dr. Leavenworth found it abundantly throughout the upper 

 district of Georgia. 



