4 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina. 



sources of the Keowee River on the 14th of June, and was con- 

 ducted by the Indians across the mountains to the head of the 

 Tugaloo, (the other principal branch of the Savannah,) and 

 thence to the waters of the Tennessee. After suffering much 

 inconvenience from unfavorable weather and the want of food, 

 he returned to the Indian village of Seneca by way of Cane 

 Creek, descended along the Savannah to Augusta, and arrived at 

 Charleston on the first of July. His notes, in this as well as 

 subsequent journeys to the mountains, often contain remarks 

 upon the more interesting plants he discovered; and in some 

 cases their localities are so carefully specified, that they might 

 still be sought with confidence. On the 16th of July he em- 

 barked for Philadelphia, which he reached on the 27th ; and, 

 after visiting Mr. Bartram, travelled to New York, arriving at the 

 garden he had established in New Jersey about the first of Au- 

 gust. Returning by water to Charleston the same month, he 

 remained in that vicinity until February, 1788, when he em- 

 barked for St. Augustine, and was busily occupied, during this 

 spring, in exploring East Florida. His journal mentions several 

 sub-tropical plants, now well known to be indigenous to Florida, 

 but which are not noticed in his Flora ; such as the Mangrove, 

 Guilandina Bonduc, Sophora occidentalis, two or three Ferns, 

 and especially the orange.* Leaving Florida at the beginning 

 of June, he returned by land to Savannah and Charleston, where 

 he was confined by sickness the remainder of the summer. Late 

 in the autumn, however, he made a second excursion to the 

 sources of the Savannah, chiefly to obtain the roots and seeds of 

 the remarkable plants he had previously discovered. He pursued 

 the same route as before, except that he ascended the Tugaloo, 

 instead of the Seneca or Keowee River, crossing over to the -lat- 

 ter; and, climbing the higher mountains about its sources in the 

 inclement month of December, when they were mostly covered 

 with snow, he at length found some trees of Magnolia cordata, 

 to obtain which was the principal object of this arduous journey. 



fortune which, it appears from Michaux's remarks, was of no uncommon occur- 

 rence in those days; and they were obliged to pursue their journey to that place 

 on foot. On the way, he discovered ' a shrubby Rumex,' which he terms Lapa- 

 thum occidentale ; doubtless the Pohjgonella parvifolia of his Flora, and also the 

 Pohjgomim polygamum of Ventenat. 



* " Les bois etoient remplis d'oranges aigres," etc. Michaux, Mss. — See also 

 Bartram's Travels; and Torr. ^ Gray, Fior. of Jforth America, I, p. 222. 



