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ble home of the Rev. C. B. Heller, near Heilig’s Mill, for a week 
or ten days’ exploration in the middle country of North Carolina. 
A great part of this region is covered with a growth of Pinus 
echinata. These woods do not contain much of special interest, 
for some years ago they were cultivated fields; but eight miles 
to the east are the pine-barrens, which are natural gardens. 
Tecoma radicans decorated the trees and shrubs with its large 
red flowers and spindle-shaped fruit. Lespedeza striata clothed 
the waysides, and Desmodium canescens and the tall wand-like 
Paspalum Floridanum were everywhere. On the borders of the 
meadow stood trees of Nyssa biflora. Within were many rare 
and beautiful plants. The bright golden Sz/phzum Asteriscus ap- 
peared first, then a large and showy lot of Liatris spicata. Vac- 
cinium virgatum, var. tenellum, grew in the tall grass and not far 
away was a bed of the very rare Aster ptarmicoides, var. Georg- 
zanus, which, according to the Synoptical Flora, has been found 
heretofore only in Northern Georgia and Northwestern Arkansas. 
The stems of PAysostegia Virginiana, var. speciosa, attained 
a length of five feet. In dryer places Hypericum virgatum grew 
in company with the bright Centrosema Virginiana. Large trees 
of Fraxinus pubescens and F. viridis were noticed at different 
points and at one locality a limited supply of Commelina hirtella. » 
A small swamp in the woods was overgrown with the grace- 
ful Juncus setaceus and Cyperus flavescens, with an occasional 
clump of Ayllingia pumila. 
t was unanimously decided to celebrate the last raid of the 
season by an excursion to the Falls of the Yadkin, and the start 
was made before daybreak onthe morning of August 18th. The 
falls are situated between twenty-five and thirty miles southeast 
of Heilig’s Mill, and not, by any means, easy to find for one not 
used to North Carolina roads. 
At daybreak, about a mile west of Gold Hill, a new station for 
Lotus Helleri was discovered, while several miles east of the same 
village Solidago serotina, var. gigantea, abounded, and was remark- 
able for its slender and graceful habit. Now the road entered the 
pine-barrens, and in a small swamp, growing in a tangled mass, 
were Lobelia Nuttallii, Г. puberula, Habenaria ciliaris, Rhexia 
Mariana, and a peculiar, wand-like Solidago. This latter plant is 
