On 23 June 1963 while visiting a station of paper birch (Betula papyrifera) in the Blue Ridge of Albemarle County, Virginia, I was greatly surprised to discover a colony of bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) growing beneath the birches. Here at 2,700 feet elevation on a north-facing slope near the crest of the ridge is located a group of paper birches consisting of some thirty clumps of trees up to 8 inches in dbh. A total of 96 bunchberry plants were counted in little groups, all growing in the leaf litter of the birches. Only five plants appeared to have bloomed, and their white bracts were already gone. The occurrence of these two species in conjunction on the predominantly oak-covered mountainside gave a quite boreal aspect to the scene.