Friday, June 1, 1951
Route: U.S. 33 from Elkins to Harrisonburg, Va, U.S 11 &
211 to Luray, Va. Side trip at top of Cheat Mtn
(gravel rd S. 4 mi from Elkins) to find a. arborescens not yet
in flower & up Spruce Knob to see what there might be.
Nothing right on the top but roseum a little lower just
coming into flower & a grand mixture of roseum, nudiflorum
& calendulaceum at about the ½way point. This was
the last calendulaceum seen. Apparently it does not
get much farther East in this region. None was seen
on Shenandoah Mtn & none are reported in the Blue
Ridge. All of these mountains, however, had roseum &
nudiflorum—though none of the roseum very glandular.
Still a blank on the small yellow azalea.
