Saw a new genus of Plant designated by Linnaeus _Podophyllum diphyllum_ and discovered some years ago in Virginia while passing by Fort Chissel. This Plant is less rare in the fertile lands of Kentuckey and Cumberland. It is found in the neighborhood of Knoxville. Dr Barton[176] called it _Jeffersonia_ in a description he gave of this Plant after seeing the flower of the Shoots I had brought back to Philadelphia in the hands of the Botanist Bartram.[177] The time when the plant flowers in the neighborhood of Knoxville is about the 10th of March. The 15th received the Letter from Governor Blount in answer to that I had written him respecting the discovery of a new _Sophora_ in the neighborhood of fort Blount. Started the same day and slept at a distance of 7 Miles. Paid 2 shillings 3 pence for Supper and for Maize and fodder for the Horses. Bundle of fodder 2 pence. The 16th of March 1796 slept a mile from Iron Works at the house of Mr Rice, Lawyer, 30 Miles from Knoxville. Observed in bloom: _Ulmus viscosa_, _Acer rubrum_ ♂ flower on one individual and ♀ flower on another tree. The 17th slept near Bull’s gap 30 Miles from Iron Works. The 18th passed by Lick creek and by Green court house 18 Miles from Bull’s gap. The 19th passed by Johnsborough 25 Miles from Green [ville]. Several merchants are established at Johnsborough who obtain their goods from Philadelphia by land. Sunday the 20th started from Johnsborough. Saw in passing Mr Overton of Kentuckey,[178] Major Carter of Wataga[179] at whose house I had lodged several years previously with my son, and Colonel Avery. Sunday 20th of March 1796 saw in bloom _Corylus americana_, ♀ flower having the Styles or Stigmas of a purpurine color. _Ulmus viscosa geminis aureis floribus 4-5-6-andris_, _stigmatibus purpureis_. _Acer rubrum_ ♂ flower on one individual and ♀ flower on another. Slept at Colonel Tipton’s 10 Miles from Johnsborough. The 21st remarked that the Mountains were covered in several places with _Sanguinaria_, _Claytonia_ and _Erythronium_ with spotted leaves. These Plants were in bloom. _Magnolia acuminata et auriculata_; _Rhododendron_; _Kalmia_; _Pinus abies canadensis_, _Pinus strobus_; _Azalea_ etc. etc. grow in abundance at the foot of those Mountains. Arrived at Lime Stone cove and slept at Charles Collier’s 18 Miles from Colonel Tipton’s. The 22nd crossed Iron Mountain and arrived at night at David Becker’s, 23 Miles without seeing a house. The 23rd started from Becker’s on Cane Creek to Rider’s 6 Miles; from Rider’s to Widow Nigh’s 7 Miles; from Nigh’s to Samuel Ramsey’s 2 Miles; from Ramsey’s to David Cox’s on Paper Creek 4 Miles and from Cox’s to Young’s 1 Mile; from Sam Ramsey’s to Davinport’s 8 Miles.[180] Total 23 Miles. Slept at Davinport’s. Remarked the _Salix capreoides_ in flower on the banks of the streams.