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the Watauga river, a harvest of Eatonia Dudley? and Viburnum 
cassinoides was reaped, both new to the Southern flora. Here, 
too, was Physocarpa opulifolia, with more slender and pointed 
leaves than in the North, and also, instead of the bushy Zonicera 
glauca, a weak, slender form creeping over the bushes. 
In a field about five miles west of Blowing Rock, and at other 
places along the road, was an abundance of Thalictrum purpur- 
ascens, another plant not credited to the country south of Virginia. 
This field also yielded a good sized bed of Fragaria Virginiana, 
evidently uncultivated, but the fruit large and attractive looking. 
Many dozens of them were collected,but the receptacles into which 
they found their way were not portfolios. Not far from this spot 
a Thalictrum.was gathered, which, although past flowering at a 
higher elevation, was still in condition for studying here. It 
proves to be a new one and has been named by Dr. Britton, 
T. dioicum var. coriaceum.* 
After recovering from the fatigue of the first raid, June 22d 
was set apart for an excursion down the eastern slope of Blowing 
Rock mountain. It was very interesting to note the difference 
caused by the elevation in the time ofthe flowering of species. One 
after another would appear and then disappear, as if restricted to 
certain belts. Chamelirium luteum thrived at 2,500 feet, and at the 
same elevation Pogonta divaricata grew in the shade by the way- 
side. Some distance above this was a belt of low bushes of 
Castanea pumila, with remarkably large flowers and white, tomen- 
tose leaves. Symplocos tinctoria, Tephrosia Virginiana, and a 
strict form of Andromeda ligustrina, var. pubescens, were every- 
where. Still higher on a springy bank along the road Phacelia 
bipinnatifida showed its pretty blue flowers, and gave forth 
its disagreeable odor. 
e soon came into a belt of our new Pentstemon. and found 
it flowering profusely. In places Znothera fruticosa, var. Pilo. 
sella, with its large yellow flowers lined the road, and on the rocks 
was an occasional bunch of Tradescantia pilosa. 
* Bull. Torr. Club, vol. xviii. 363. This well marked, new variety of 7. 
dioicum was collected at a number of places on the plateau and ho of Blowing 
Rock mountain and Stone mountain, and was seen on Table Rock and Roan 
mou 
It is most closely related to the above-named species, ae flowers at least 
six weeks later, and has an average height of five feet. 
