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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



L. , 153 Cubelium concolor (Forst.) Raf., 154 and Urtica chamozdryoides 

 Pursh.i55 



From Pisgah I drove up along the mountain to Bryant, a 

 country post office at Moore's Gap, three miles from Carpenter, a 

 station ou the Southern Railway. The distance from Pisgah to 

 Bryant is about thirty-five miles as the indirect road runs. The 

 road passes around the "breaks" at the head of several "gulfs " 

 and numerous small swamps are passed, in all of which Sarracenia 

 catesbcei Ell. 156 may be found. In the deep shade in several ravines 

 leading into Coon creek gulf, Azalea lutea L. 157 was observed. 

 Hitherto, so far as I can learn, this species of azalea has not been 

 credited to Alabama. At Bryant I found an unusually good and 

 homelike boarding house kept by Mr. McGee. Mr. McGee's 

 house stands near a precipice overlooking the Tennessee and 

 Sequatchie valleys, and a minute's walk will enable the collector 

 to reach the slopes and benches below the bluff. A walk of forty 

 minutes will take him to the Devil's punch-bowl, a deep chasm at 

 the head of a wild gorge. In this gorge I found a flora quite simi- 

 lar to that in the Pisgah gorge, but I observed no plants of Hy- 

 drangea quercifolia Bart. 158 Rhododendron catawbiense Michx. 159 is 

 abundant and Ribes cynosbati L. 160 covers the rocks in places. 

 Hypericin dolabriforme Vent. 161 was found along the streams in 

 crevices of rocks above the cataract. On exposed rocks along the 

 bluffs Talirium teretifolium Pursh 162 is not rare. 



In shallow soil in the glades Scutellaria parvula Michx. 163 is 

 occasionally seen. In open places in the woods and in old fields 

 Senecio smalli Britton 164 is a common weed. Tcenidia integemma 

 (L. ) Drude, 165 not common in Alabama, was found along the 

 bluffs at McGee's. Under shelving rocks along the bluffs Heu- 

 chera parviflora Bartl. 166 is occasionally found, and in crevices of 

 rocks Cheilanthes lanosa (Michx.) Walt. 167 was observed. In moist 

 shady situations on the ledges of rocks, Silene rotundifolia Nutt. 168 



153 Sp. PI. 340, 1753- 



154 Jackson, Index Kew., 1 : 663, 1893. 



155 Flora Am. Sept. I : 113, 1814. 



156 Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2 : ri, 1821-24. 



157 Sp. PI. 150, 1753- 



158 Travels, 382, t. 7, 1791. 



159 Flora, I :258, 1803. 



160 Sp. PI. 202, 1753. 



161 Hort. Cels. t. 45, 1800. 



162 Flora Am. Sept. 2 : 365, 1814. 



163 Flora, 2 : 11, 1803. 



164 Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 132, 1893. 



165 Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 3 : abt. 8, 195, 1896. 



166 ind. Sem. Hort. Gotting. (1838) Lihnaea, 



13 : 96, 1839- 



167 Trimen's Journ. Bot. 12 : 48, 1847. 



168 Gen. x : 288, 1818. 



