290 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Peak, which were more than three feet in diameter and from eighty to 
one hundred feet high. The black spruce appears to grow at a lower 
elevation than the balsam, but neither of them are often met beneath an 
height of 4000 feet. 
The banks of streams and coves of these mountains have some of the 
largest trees in the United States east of Mississippi river. There 18 4 
ground. Near this locality we also measured a chestnut or 
vesca,) thirty-three feet in circumference at four feet from the ground. 
same stream there is a hemlock, or spruce pine, (Abies Canadensis) a 
Pm 
Here also the Halesia tetraptera attaiis an uncommon sie, pear’ 
two to three feet in diameter, and about sixty feet high. On forent® 
Creek there is a white oak (Quercus alba,) nineteen feet in circum * 
extended, but enough have already been cited to show the ricbnes 
_ The Quercus Leana of Nuttall occurs at several places on the Tent herd 
river near Franklin in Macon Co., North Carolina. It is evident at 
a hybrid between Quercus imbricaria and Q. tinctoria. gon 
identical with those of the Q. imbricaria. On the Haywood moti 4 
we saw a few specimens of the Betula excelsa (yellow bie) hs 
und it on the Black mountain. Ae an pe 
fet, and 
) /and leaves of the Pyrularia. Last spring we ~¥ ea in OO 
Wwe again went there after the fruit; but the harvest was past 
