and among them the names of Sir Joseph Banks, Lambert, and Walker, were frequently mentioned in the letters which he wrote while at sea. His own name, recorded as it is by his superior botanical designs, commemorated by the genus Bauera in the annals of botany, and, as we before stated, in those also of geography, will long live in the recollection of posterity.
Notes of a Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of South Carolina; with some Remarks on the Botany of the higher Alleghany Mountains; in a letter to Sir W. J. Hooker, by Asa Gray, M.D.
(Continued from p. 217 of vol. 1)
On the 7th of July, we started for the high mountains farther south; having hired a cumbrous and unsightly, but convenient, tilted waggon, with a pair of horses and a driver, (who rode one of the beasts according to the usual custom of this region), for the conveyance of our luggage, and which afforded us, at intervals, the luxury of reposing on straw, at the bottom, while we were dragged along at the rate of two or three miles an hour.
Our first day's journey, extending to about twenty-four miles, was somewhat tedious, for we found no new plants of any interest. We saw, however, a variety of Lonicera parviflora? with larger leaves and flowers than ordinary, the latter dull-purplish; probably it is the Caprifolium bracteosum, var. floribus violaceo-purpureis, of Michaux. The following morning we reached the Watauga River (a tributary of the Holston), and leaving our driver to follow up the banks of the stream to the termination of the road at the foot of the Grandfather, we ascended an adjacent mountain, called Hanging-rock, and reached our quarters for the night by a different route. The fine and near view of the rugged Grandfather, amply rewarded the toil of ascending this beetling cliff, where we also obtained the Geum (Sieversia) radiatum,
