THE BRYOLOGIST 



Vol. XXIV July 1921 No. 4 



FURTHER BRYOPHYTES FROM NORTH CAROLINA (AND 

 TENNESSEE) 



A. LeRoy Andrews 



In the summer of 19 19 I found it possible to spend about seven weeks in 

 rather, intensive search for bryophytes in the southern mountains. The field 

 covered was as follows: one day in the low mountains (up to slightly over 3000 

 feet) east of Asheville in Buncombe County; two weeks from headquarters at 

 Swannanoa in Buncombe County, from which place the northern face of the 

 Swannanoa Mts. (up to 4400 feet) was carefully investigated and trips were made 

 in the valley of the Swannanoa River and those of its tributaries from the north, 

 Beetree Creek and North Fork; two weeks at Balsam in Jackson County, from 

 which Jones Knob (6400 feet) was ascended several times and especial attention 

 devoted to the route following Woodfin Creek and Falls, also the Balsam Range 

 was followed from the summit of Wesner Bald to that of Dark Ridge (up to 5865 

 feet), the valley of Dark Ridge Creek was traversed a number of times and south 

 of it Double Top Mt. (554ofeet) was climbed and Snaggy Mt. partially examined; 

 a week at Roan Mountain Inn in Carter County, Tennessee, from which Roan Mt. 

 (6313 feet) on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee was twice 

 ascended, the White Rock Mt. (4500 feet) to the northward was visited and 

 Pardee Point and its vicinity in the canyon of the Doe River were scrutinized; 

 ten days at Linville in Avery County, N. C, from where attention was devoted 

 largely to Grandfather Mt. (5964 feet) and its immediate environs, including a 

 trip down the Blue Ridge from Grandmother Gap (4000 feet) to Gragg or Cary 

 Flat (about 2500 feet); finally part of a day at Marion (about 1500 feet) in 

 McDowell County, where a piece of woods short distance to the westward was 

 botanized. The rocks were Carolina gneiss. Roan gneiss, Cranberry granite, 

 Beech granite and Unicoi conglomerate, all in the main acid or silicious rocks; no 

 limestone was visited. 



The list of species I give will include only such as are not already contained 

 in the lists of those collected by Atkinson and Durand,^ though I shall precede 

 it by a few remarks upon some of the species included there. My purpose was 

 primarily to look for southern extension of the range of northern species and I am 



iThe Bryologist, XVII, 58 ff. 1914; XXI, 61 ff. 1918. 



The May number of The Bryologist was published September 21, 192 1 



