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On the return trip from Grandfather a wild-looking ravine ex- 
cited our curiosity, so on June 24th we started out to investigate 
the locality, which is about five miles west of Blowing Rock. 
Before going very far a most beautiful sight was presented to us. 
By the side of the road is a large rock. From its top rises a 
fine spring, which trickles down the sides. This rock, situated 
in the shade, is covered with mosses ofevery shade of green, and 
the delicate white flowers of Thalictrum clavatum, growing among 
the mosses, made a most pleasing contrast with its green sur- 
roundings. The ravine, in appearance, is like a large sloping 
gutter filled with loose stones and rocks, which, however, are well 
covered with vegetation. Along the lower edge Viola Canadensis 
and Asclepias exaltata pushed their way up between the rocks. 
Above these, among bushes of Ribes Cynosbati and R. rotund- 
tfolium, were robust plants of Hydrophyllum Canadense, bearing 
its flowers on rather slender peduncles. But, better than all these, 
in one way, was Osmorhiza longistylis, another species new to 
the flora of the Southern States. 
Several friends from the North, who had a desire to come to 
the mountains and rough it a while, were expected to arrive in 
Hickory on June 26th. Concluding that a trip to that section of 
country would yield profitable results, a start on foot for Lenoir 
was made at seven o’clock on the morning of the 25th. The 
weather on top of the mountain was delightful, and we anticipated 
a pleasant walk, only to be disappointed. After leaving the 
mountains the heat along the treeless, sandy road seemed as if it 
would surely roast us. This broiling operation, however, was 
not for naught. The tramp produced another plant new to the 
South,—Papaver somniferum, introduced at one place. Upon 
the bank of the Yadkin river where it flows out from the foot of 
Rip Shin mountain, was Heuchera pubescens in all stages of de- 
velopment, from bud to fruit, and here also we made our first ac- 
quaintance with the two species of shrub most common in that 
section—Calycanthus glaucus and С. levigatus. Lenoir was 
reached in time to catch the train and at three o’clock it pulled 
into Hickory. When we had tested the soda-fountains, we saun- 
tered off in the direction of a swamp, which by chance, had been 
discovered while passing through the town several weeks before. 
