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Mountain late in the afternoon of August 9 the following native 

 species were noted. (This summit, like many others in the same 

 region, has long been used for pasturage,* and there are of course 

 a good many weeds on it. These will be found in the last list.) 



Trees Herbs 



Crataegus sp. Eupatoriutn ageratoides 



Fagus grandifolia Pteris aquilina 



Abies Fraseri (i) f Danthonia sp. 



Sorbus americana (2) Deschampsia flexuosa (5) 



Betula lutea Heuchera villosa 



Quercus rubra Houstonia serpyllifolia (6) 



Betula alleghaniensis ? Potentilla tridentata (7) 



Houstonia longifolia 

 Lysimachia quadrifolia 



SHRUBS Silene virginica 



Rhododendron catawbiense (3) Hypericum Buckleyi 



Vaccinium sp. Polypodium vulgare 



Pieris floribunda Epigaea repens 



Cholisma ligustrina Selaginella rupestris 



Kalmia latifolia Habenaria ciliaris 



Rhododendron punctatum Carex trisperma 



Salix humilis Asplenium Filix-foemina 



Menziesia pilosa (4) Circaea alpina (8) 



Lilium superbum 



It happens that on the same afternoon Dr. H. D. House was 

 on the summit of Mt. Pisgah, on the edge of the same county, 

 about six miles farther east and 300 feet lower, where he found 

 many of the same species, and Paronychia argyrocoma besides. 

 Quite a number of the same have been reported from similar 

 habitats a little farther north by Dr. Harshberger, j 



* See Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. 42: 41, 47. 1842; Redfield, Bull. Torrey Club 6: 

 338. 1879 ; Scribner, Bot. Gaz. 14 : 255. 1889. 



t Interesting notes on tbe species whose names are followed by numbers can be 

 found as follows: (i) Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. 42: 31, 42. 1842; Redfield, Bull. 

 Torrey Club 6 : 338. 1879 '■> Sargent, Gard. & For. 2 : 472. /, 1^2. 1889; Pinchot 

 & Ashe, Bull. N. C. Geol. Surv. 6; 136, 223. 1898 ; (2) Gray, 1. c. 28, 42. (3) 

 Redfield & Gray, Bull. Torrey Club 6 : 336. 1879; Small & Heller, Mem. Torrey 

 Club 3' : 4. 1892 ; Cannon, Torreya 2: 161-169. 1902 ; (4) Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. 

 42: 42. 1842; Small & Heller, 1. c. (5) Scribner, Bot. Gaz. 14 : 254. 1889. (6) 

 Gray, 1. c. 19, 40 ; Redfield, 1. c. 337 ; Y. E. Boynton, Pop. Sci. Mo. 31 : 654. 

 1887. (7) Gray, 1. c. 27, 41 ; L. N. Johnson, Bot. Gaz. 13 : 270. 1888 ; Small & 

 Heller, I.e. 14. (8) Harshberger, Bot. Gaz. 36: 378. 1903. 



J Bot. Gaz. 36: 376-382. 1903. 



