776 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast pluin. Dry open vrassy pine barrens. Lee 
County, Auburn, 800 feet altitude (Zarle). Escambia County, near Wilson’s Sta- 
tion, Mobile County, Bay shell road. October; not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Middle Florida, in fertile soil, Dr. Chapman! Dr. Alexander! 
Georgia & Alabama, Baldwin! Le Conte.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solidago pallescens Mohr, sp. nov. 
Stem from a stout erect rootstock, slender, 24 to 34 feet high, simple or paniculately 
branched above, sparsely pubescent; radical leaves 3 to 3} inches long, ovate-oblong, 
narrowed at the base into a winged petiole; lower canline leaves ovate, attenuate 
into broadly margined petioles, acuminate, mucronulate, irregularly dentate toward 
the apex, the upper ovate to oblong, sessile, rather obtuse; rameal leaves gradually 
reduced to small bracts subtending the flowering heads, all of a firm texture, pale- 
glaucescent, particularly on the lowersurtiace, ciliate, with prominent midrib; racemes 
slender, erect or spreading, secund; flowering heads small, involucral bracts obtuse, 
glabrous, except on the slightly hairy margin; achenes silky-pubescent, with a rigid 
scabrous pappus. 
Resembles Solidago brachyphylla, but is abundantly distinet by the pale glauces- 
cence, ete, 
Carolinian area, 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Auburn, October, 1896 (Baker 4: Earle), 
Type locality as just given. 
Solidago arguta Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 213. 1789, SHARP-SERRATE GOLDEN-ROD, 
Solidago muhlenbergit Torr. & Gray, FIN. A.2:214, 1s42. 
HM. Sk.2:374. Gray, Man, ed. 6, 250. Chap. FL 212. Gray, Syn. Pl N. A. 1, pt. 
2: 154, 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario and New England, west and south to 
Indiana, Minnesota, southwestern Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and along the 
mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp grassy openings. Clay County, waterfall 
near Pulpit Nock, 2,200 feet, grassy swale. July, August; rare. 
Type locality: “Native of North America.” 
Herb, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solidago vaseyi nom. nov. 
Solidago arguta caroliniana Gray, Syn. FLON. A. 1, pt. 22155, 1884. Not Frigeron 
carolinianus La. 
Chap. FL ed. 3, 281.) Gray, Syn. FI.N.A.1 e. 
Over 2 feet high; stem glabrous below, branches and intlorescence pubescent; 
leaves smooth, the radical and lower cauline ample, from 1) to 2 inches wide and od 
to 4 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, sharply serrate, the upper lanceolate, acuminate, 
entire, all on short-winged petioles, acute; flowering heads large, 4 or 15 flowered, 
numerous, racemose in the axils of the leaves in short paniculate clusters; involuere 
puberulent; achenes densely silky-hairy. This plant has little in common with 
S.arguta, and is strikingly distinet by the characters noted. 
Carolinian area. Mountains of North Carolina (Roan Mountain, 5,000 feet), Ten- 
nessee, and northwestern Georgin. 
ALABAMA; Mountain region to Coosa Hills. Wooded summits and slopes of hills. 
Cullman County, Holmes Gap, 1,200 feet altitude. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Moun- 
tain. St, Clair County, near Ashville (@. R. Vasey), August; very rare. 
Type locality (Gray): ‘Mountains of North Carolina and of adjacent South Caro- 
lina and Georgia, G. Rt. Vasey, J. Donnell Smith.” 
Herh, Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solidago serotina gigantea ( Ait.) (iray, Proce. Am. Acad, 172180, 1882. 
LARGE LATE-FLOWERING GOLDEN-ROD, 
Solidago gigantea Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 211. 1789. 
S. gigantea Willd. 3: 2056. 1804. Not Ait. 
Gray, Man.ed.6, 251. Chap. FL 214.) Gray, Syn. PILN. A. 1, pt. 2: 156. 
Boreal region to Carolinian area. Newfoundland through Canada to north latitude 
50° to the Pacifie, south to Georgia, west to Texas, and across the plains to Nevada. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region? A single specimen collected by G. R. Vasey, in 
“North Alabama,’ 1878, 
Type locality: ‘‘Native of North America.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb, Mohr. 
