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•slender. A pleasantly odorous fern {Dicksonia punctilohula) and 

 Aspidium spinulosum cover moist depressions of the ground. 



SMOKY MOUNTAINS. 



A type of flora somewhat different from this from the admixture 

 ■of truly Alpine or high Northern plant forms crowns the still loftier 

 summits of the Smoky Mountains and the Eoane Mountain. The 

 mountain defiles and coves on Doe Eiver and Watauga Eiver are 

 ■traversed by a narrow-gauge railroad, which presently terminates 

 at the Cranberry Iron Works, and a stage road leads up to Cloud- 

 land, a mountain resort on the summit of Roane Mountain, at an 

 ■altitude of 6,600 feet. Yellow and white pine, and also the table- 

 mountain pine {Pinus pungens) predominate on the mountain 

 ■sides ; but white oak, chestnut, cherry, sugar maple, and also walnut 

 ■and hickories, strong and densely grown, hold the lower grounds 

 ■and river banks. In these moist and shady gorges abounds the 

 Dicentra eximia, a beautiful plant. It is a variety of the bleeding 

 heart, a well-known garden ornament. The A'dlumia cirrhosa, or 

 -climbing fumitory, a very graceful plant, also frequently cultivated 

 in gardens, yet common in Northern New York and the Western 

 States, accompanies the former. A peculiar and very rare shrub, 

 not known elsewhere, the BucMeya distichophylla, and the oilnut 

 ■{Pyrularia oleifera), the beaked hazelnut {Corylus rostrata), the 

 -scrub oak {Quercus ilicifolia), and other shrubs which are also 

 -common in the Ocoee region form the undergrowth. The smooth- 

 leaved Dutchman's pipe {Aristolochia Sipho), the climbing bitter- 

 sweet {Celastrus scandens), two species of Lonicera, and the bush 

 honeysuckle (Diervilla sessilifolui) are lovely and odd-shaped 

 •climbers or bushes. Magnolia Fraseri abounds here. It is beyond 

 „the scope of this sketch to enumerate the species for which the high 

 summits are famous among botanists. The discovery of the sajad 

 myrtle {Leiophyllum huxifolium) , a native of the sandy pine bar- 

 rens of New Jersey, on the summit of Roane Mountain, is a curious 

 Incident in plant geography. Rhododendron CatoAvhiense, several 

 .Saxifragas and Solidago glommerta, monticola, spUhwmea, the 

 Diphylleia cymosa, Chelone Lyoni, Cardamine Clematitis, Paro- 

 ■nychia argyroooma, Sedum Rhodiola, Geum radiatum, Oeum ge- 

 ■niculatum, Boykinia aconitifolia may serve as examples of rare 

 plants. 



Another range of mountain flora we find in the Cumberland 



