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one of the most attractive scenically and botanically to be found in the United 
States. While the writer devoted most of his time to a study of the phanero- 
gamic flora, he collected about 250 numbers of lichens, mosses, and hepatics. 
Although many species were overlooked which would have been detected by a 
critical student of these groups, it may be of interest to record a list of the species 
obtained. 
Eagle’s Nest stands on the summit of Junaluska Mountain near the eastern 
end of the Balsam Mountains at an elevation of 5000 feet. This mountain is 
covered with a heavy forest, chiefly of oaks, chestnut, and tulip, while along the 
deeper gulches on the northern slopes are thick groves of hemlocks. Two streams 
rise at the summit of the mountain, clear, cold, and swift, one flowing towards 
the north and one to the south. The soil is deep on most of the slopes, but rock 
ledges occur here and there, and the streams flow over rocky beds. 
Our camp in 1913 was on the bank of Flat Creek, a small, rushing, crystal 
stream, about five miles north of Black Mountain Station, at an elevation of 
about 3000 feet. This stream like many others of the region is a very beautiful 
one, with many small falls where the water tumbles over great moss-covered 
rocks. Along the stream the trees are chiefly hemlocks, while upon the neigh- 
boring slopes the timber is principally chestnut. Nearly all of the hepatics col- 
lected in 1913 came from the vicinity of this camp. The rocks here, as nearly 
everywhere in the mountains of western North Carolina, are granites, gneisses, 
and schists. 
Montreat lies on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Just to the 
north of this chain lie the Black Mountains, notable for the several high peaks 
they include, chief among which is Mount Mitchell (6711 feet), the highest peak, 
in eastern North America. Our camp was distant from Mount Mitchell, by 
trail, about eighteen miles. We made the trip to the top of the peak on Sep- 
tember 5, spending the night at the summit and returning the next day. Only 
a small collection of plants was made on the peak, unfortunately, because of the 
unfavorable weather and the lack of adequate means of preserving material, 
the trip being made on foot and little more than food, blankets, and a kodak 
being carried. It may be stated, however, that few plants were seen which we 
cared to collect, the flora of the summit and the slopes along the trail being 
singularly monotonous and uninteresting. The upper slopes of the mountain, 
above the trail from Clingman’s Dome, Potato Top, and Pinnacle Mountain, 
are covered with a deep balsam {Abies Fraseri ) forest beneath which few plants 
manage to exist. There is a very small open area about the rocky summit, but 
even here the number of species is not large, and apparently there are nearly as 
many introduced weeds as native plants. 
For the determinations of the specimens the writer is under deep obligations 
to Miss Caroline Coventry Haynes. The numbers from Eagle’s Nest were col- 
lected by the writer, while all those numbered above ten thousand were collected 
by Mr. H. C. Bollman and the writer. A complete set is to be found in the 
U. S. National Herbarium. 
