Excerpt from Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol. 5: Part 1; January June, 1888
When one considers the acknowledged richness of the Horn of North Carolina, it seems not a little strange that this peculiarly interesting family of plants should have been so completely neglected both by native and by visiting botanists. In the second volume of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge may be found Professor J. W. Bailey's "Microscopical Observations made in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida," published in 1851; but these notes contain no reference to North Carolina. With the poor exception of two or three species of Vauchena reported from this State by v. Sclnveinitz, and a few other Alga by Curtis (1860), the great group of Fresh-water Algie as now known to the world contains no North Carolina representatives. And, if the view be restricted to the particular family that concerns us here, so far as i have been able to learn the record is a complete blank.
Moved partly by this consideration, for a few months past I have been engaged, as my limited leisure afforded opportunity, upon the determination of the species of Desmids found in tin vicinity of Wake Forest, and some of the results of this work are presented below.
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