University of Virginia Library

Wednesday, May 16, 1951

Route: Tenn 68 to Grassy Cove, retrace & S. on Tenn
28 to Pikeville. To top of West Mountain, retrace & E over
mountain on Tenn 30 to Athens for the night.

Grassy Cove is an interesting formation with its river sink
finally reappearing from through the mountain as the
Sequatchie river. Tried to concentrate on getting a fair
picture today of the canescenscanescens-alabamense &
nudiflorum complexes in the mountain region. They are
very mixed but the picture seems fairly straight now.
But delayed too long for I had hoped to
reach Murphy tonight.