﻿C. S. Sargent — Journey of Andre Michaux. 469 



cule*es trouve' le jour que j'arrivay. Je ne le rencontray sur 

 aucune des autres montangnes. Les sauvages du lieu me 

 dirent que les feuilles avoient bon gout etant machees et que 

 l'odeur en etait agreable en les froissant, ce que ie trouval 

 effectivement. 



Direction pour trouver cet arbuste. — La Tete du Keivi est la 

 jonction de deux torrents considerables qui coulent par cas- 

 cades des hautes montagnes. Cette jonction se fait dans une 

 petite plaine oa il y avait autrefois une ville ou plutot un 

 village de Cherokees. En descendant de la junction de ces 

 deux torrents ayant la rivi a gauche et les montagnes qui re- 

 gardent le Nord a droite, on trouve & environ 30 a 50 toises de 

 ce confluent un senti forme par les Chasseurs sauvages, il con- 

 duit a un ruisseau ou l'on reconnait les vestiges d'un village 

 par les Pechers qui subsistent au milieu des Brouss. En con- 

 tinuant ce sentier on arrive aussitot sur les montagnes et Ton 

 trouve cet arbuste qui couvre le sol avec l'Epigea repens. 



Le 12 Decembre, 1788. Je visitay les montagnes exposees 

 au sud en revenant, car les provisions etoient si avances, qu'il 

 y eut un Dejeuner tres sobre. Je recueillis beaucoup de Magn. 

 cordata en un meilleur etat que ceux des jours precedents." 



The entry, made in the journal on the 3d of December, sug- 

 gests that M. auriculata (M. Fraseri Walter) must have been 

 the object of Michaux's search at this time, and not the M. 

 cordata of his flora. The younger Bartram twelve years before 

 had visited the Cherokee country, crossing the mountains on to 

 the waters of the Tennessee River, and had discovered his 

 Magnolia auriculata first on the mountains between the Tugalo 

 and the Keowee, and then in greater abundance and perfection 

 on what he supposed was the highest peak of the Cherokee 

 mountains, probably either Hogback or Whiteside, and which 

 he named Mount Magnolia in honor of his discovery.* Mi- 

 chaux doubtless had heard of this new Magnolia at the time of 

 his visit to the Bartrams in 1787, and as his route was now 

 almost identical with that followed by William Bartram, there 

 seems to be little doubt that it was Bartram's Magnolia, and 

 not the Magnolia cordita of his flora, which he was in pursuit 

 of. The fact that Michaux mentions in his journal under date 

 of June 14, 1787, when he was on the Keowee River, the dis- 

 covery of a new Magnolia "queje nomme Magnolia (Hastata)" 

 and which from the locality must have been Bartram's plant, 

 is no reason why a year later he may not have spoken of it 

 as the " mountain Magnolia named by Bartram, M. cordata ou 

 auriculata." This discovery of June 14th, judging from the 

 brief mention in this Journal, made less impression upon Mi- 



* William Bartram, Travels; Second edition, p. 337. 



