The 30th Germinal in the 3rd year of the French Republic One and Indivisible (Sunday 19th of April 1795 old style) started to go and herborise in the high Mountains of the Carolinas and afterward to visit the Western territories. Plants seen before arriving at Monk's corner: Heuchera . . ., Vicia 2 species, Smilax herbacea erecta, Melampodium? . . . Polygonum necessaria, Silene Virginica, Phlox lanceolata then in flower, Valeriana. Slept at 45 Mile House.
The 10th Floreal (20th of April,) around forty five Mile house, Valeriana; 3 Miles before reaching Neilson's ferry Gnaphalium dioicuin, Uvularia? On the said 20th of April a new tree of the Santee river, elm-leaved, fructus muricati capsula muricata, semen unicum subovatum.[78]
These seeds were then almost ripe; Celtis occidentalis flowers . . .[79] and lower male flowers.
Slept 77 Miles from Charleston.
The 21st of April noticed on the Santee High-hills: Phlox with white flowers and Phlox with pink flowers, two different species, very small Phlox with lance shaped leaves; Saw in the neighborhood of Monk's corner Lupinus hirsutus in flower. Dined with D^r . . .; slept at Statesboroug.
The 22nd passed by Cambden; five miles beyond, a new Kalmia; it was not yet in flower. Slept 10 Miles beyond Cambden.
- [Footnote: *ing south on horseback, he arrived at Charleston March 14, 1794, where he
consulted with the French consul, Mangourit, concerning the Florida portion of the expedition against French territory. See American Historical Association Report, 1897, pp. 569-679. Upon the collapse of this project, Michaux undertook a botanizing tour to the mountains of North Carolina, from July 14, to October 2, 1794. Upon his return, he had an attack of fever for "more than six weeks," and passed the remainder of the winter in arranging his garden and classifying his plants.—Ed.]
