Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . on, manv other flowering plants were obtained, a full setof which has l)een mounted and placed in the National Herbarium. THE FLORA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA During the latter part of Augttst and early September. 1913, C. Standley, of the Division of Plants, L. S. National Museum,and Mr. H. C. P)Ollman, of the Smithsonian Institution, spent fourweeks camping in the mountains of western North Carolina, near?\[ontreat, Buncombe County. Although undertaken primarily asa vacation trip, advantage was taken of the op
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . on, manv other flowering plants were obtained, a full setof which has l)een mounted and placed in the National Herbarium. THE FLORA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA During the latter part of Augttst and early September. 1913, C. Standley, of the Division of Plants, L. S. National Museum,and Mr. H. C. P)Ollman, of the Smithsonian Institution, spent fourweeks camping in the mountains of western North Carolina, near?\[ontreat, Buncombe County. Although undertaken primarily asa vacation trip, advantage was taken of the opportunity for study ofthe flora of this most interesting region. ()ver seven hundred speci- 42 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 63 mens of plants were secured, besides small lots of some of the com-mon and easily collected animals. Special attention was devoted tothe mosses, hepatics. and lichens, in which the region abounds, anda representative collection of each of these groups was secured. Listsof the species of cryptogams have been prepared for Fk;. 43.—Mountain brook near Montreal,North Carolina. Photograph by Standley. The mountains of North Carolina are of great interest botanically,since they support a varied flora, many of whose components are notfound elsewhere. Western North Carolina was visited by some ofthe earliest American botanists who collected here the types of manyof the typically mountain plants. Although numerous botanists haveexplored the region, many of its divisions are still unexplored andyield rich returns to the collector. NO. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 43 About Montreat the mountains are covered with an almost virginchestnut forest, traversed by numerous small, swift streams of clear,cold water, bordered with hemlocks. There is an abundant under-growth of rhododendron and laurel, two of the handsomest of NorthAmerican shrubs, which attain their greatest perfection in the south-ern Appalachians. The herbaceous vegetatio
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