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field had been pastured with cattle, which had destroyed nearly all of 
the Pyrularia, Hence it has already become rare, and the general oceu- 
pancy of the mountains with herds of cattle and flocks of 
‘mountains to the extent of twenty-five or thirty miles. Dr. Gra 
t at once, he having received it from Mr. Shuttleworth, a» 
2 
‘2 most of the Balsam mountains, and the Potentilla tridentata of the 
aks 
New England mountains als the bald of Macon county. 
Ny ar ains also grows on the pe ; 
_+4¢ Carolina mountains have a great variety of huckleberries (Vac- 
cnum and Gaylussacia) ripening in succession from July to September. 
ber, covered 
« h the month of September many oF the women and children dig 
The a quinguefolia,) in the valleys and on the mountain sides, 
Worth at home ty W. with one man who 
had b € twenty-five cents per pou e me 
t 30,00 ber bein one family 
Whose unds, and we remem 5 : 
vith a dren sold seventy pounds cra sang, 
— birds (Fringilla nivalis) we saw ita Black mountain, and also 
Se of the other Balsam mountains south and west of Asheville. 
sean Solitary or in pairs, showing evidently that they breed in 
Posed tp pr ther species of bird, whose summer habitat is generally sup- 
Sm confined to the north, also breeds and summers in those 4 : 
Mountains, It is the Crossbill (Loxia curvirostris) whose curious 
