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Sunset Mountain, near Asheville, I saw what at first I 
decided to be Phlox some of which Ihad just^irathered, and 
yet I was not sure but kept turning around to look at the 
pink corollas and suddenly- the thought flashed : Might 
they not be Sabhatia? They were—Sabbatia angularis as 
I determined a few days later at the Biltmore Herbarium. 
This Herbarium is a part of the vast estate, which is 
said to include 140,000 acres owned by Mr. Geo. Van- 
derbilt. 
In that region of floral wealth, the Herbarium is a 
valuable mstitution, where the collector can stop to deter- 
mine difficult species and where the southern flora is rapid- 
ly being catalogued. Though only in existence ten years, 
there are no less than 50,0 00 sheets. Mr. C. D. Beadle who 
is at the head of the forestry- department of the estate is a 
specialist on the genus Crats&ous. In a recent number of 
the "Biltmore Botanical Studies" he published twenty 
one descriptions of as many varieties of that genus. Messrs. 
F. E. Bovnton, C. L. Bovnton and T. G. Harbison are 
associated with Mr. Beadle in botanical research. The 
Herbarium is equipped with an excellent botanical library 
ofover 2,000 volumes. Among the very valuable reference 
works are the 122 Vols, of The Botanical Magazine, from 
Vol.1, published in London in 1793, to the latest monthly. 
The coloring of the first volumes is not surpassed by the 
most up to date methods of printing colored plates— the 
colors of plants pictured in Vol. I are not in the least faded 
that one can see. 
The Herbarium rendered good service to all plant 
lovers in the matter ofthe Stephen Elliot collection. For 
lack of attention and care, the specimens were being de- 
stroyed by time and insects in a Charleston college. Mr. 
Beadle got permission to bring the collection to Biltmore 
where it is l>eing put in order, properly catalogued and 
fumigated until the college can furnish better quarters for 
it. I dare say there is no institution in the South that is 
doing as much for the science of botany as is the Biltmore 
