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River, and from there started on our long drive over the 

 mountain to the Peaks of Otter. 



Castmiea putnila was in bloom along the base of the 

 mountains. So was SpircEa Artmcus higher up, the latter a 

 most beautiful and ornamental plant. (Enothera glauca and 

 Coreopsis verticillata grew together under some sturdy Pinus 

 Vtrginianay and an interesting find was Hierachtm Mariamim, 

 ■var. spathulatum,^ hitherto only reported from Two-top 

 Mountain, Penn. 



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Galium latifoliuin was in bloom along the road, the 

 upper woods were filled with the pretty, slender Galax 

 aphylla, and all about us were dense forests of splendid 

 trees, A bewildering succession of fine Oaks and Chestnuts, 

 with here and there a dark stately Hemlock, an occasional 

 Magnolia ananinata and slender bud-covered Oxydendritm 

 arboreum. 



At the top of what our driver called '* The Pass/' we 

 came upon a swamp filled with Kalniia latifolia in full 



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bloom, a miniature forest of dark, glossy-leaved shrubs, 

 covered with great pink and white clusters of flowers. In 

 that same swamp the tall, graceful Amianthitun ntusc(B' 

 toxicum towered high above its smaller companions, among 

 which we gathered some very large-leaved Anemone trifoliay 

 Partheniuni integrifolium^ and the fruit oi the ever-present 

 Dioscorea villosa. One of the last plants gathered that day 

 was a new variety of Senecio aureus, f 



* Hieracium Marianum^ var. spathulatiim (Sch. Bip), A. Gray, Syn. Fior. 

 Gamopet. Suppl. Determined by Dr. Porter. — N. L. B. 



t Senecio aureus^ L., var. angiistifoliits^ n. var. Growing in dense clumps 



a foot or two in diameter, on dry hillsides. Stems erect, slender, i8'-2° 



^ high, simple, their bases and nodes densely clothed with long, white 



wool ; lower leaves linear or linear-oblong, long-petioled, the blades 3'-4' 

 long, 6"-S" wide, blunt at the apex, dentate all around, commonly with a few 

 linear lobes at the base, the petioles slender, 3'-5' long, densely woolly below ; 

 upper leaves sessile, linear, pinnatifid ; heads numerous, 3""4" high, many- 

 flowered, rays 6-8 ; akenes very hispidulous. 



Evidently nearest to var. Balsamitm^ but different from any state of that 



plant (which may be a species) that has come under my observation. A 



specimen collected at Chapel Hill N. C, by Prof. J. A. Holmes, in 1886, is 



probably to be referred here, although the wool of the base and nodes is much 



Iess.~N, L. B, 



