336 A. Gray—North American Flora. 
will wish to collect Schizea pusilla, rarest, most local, and 
among the smallest o 
f only the season would allow it, there is a more southern 
on steep mountain-sides, through which the traveler can make 
his way only by following old bear-paths, or by keeping strictly 
on the dividing crests of the leading ridges. 
y on the summits do we find Rhododendron Catawbiense, 
parent of so many handsome forms in English grounds, and on 
the higher wooded slopes the yellow and the flame-colored 
‘Azalea calendalacea; on the lower, the pink A. nudiflora an 
more showy A. arborescens, along with the common and wide - 
spread A. viscosa. The latter part of June is the proper me 
to explore this region, and, if only one portion can be visited, 
Roan Mountain should be preferred. : 
On these mountain tops we meet with a curious anomaly !” 
