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with two or three pairs of fairly distinct pinnate veins, the reticulation obvious 
but not obtrusive; bracts leaf-like and exceeding the clusters for more than half 
the length of the inflorescence, this loose at the base, more compact above, cylin- 
draceous, the racemes usually only 2 em, long, but sometimes more developed, 
slightly if at all compounded, rather acutely ascending; heads narrowly cam- 
panulate, 5.5 to 6.5 mm. deep; longer tegules? linear to linear-oblong, obtuse, 
especially in broader states, the tips sometimes wider than the body, sometimes 
with an incipient isthmus, an oval, herbaceous spot on the back extending as a 
line far downward; disk flowers 8 to 10; ray flowers 6 to 8; blade of rays oval, 
2 mm. long, 1 to 1.2 mm. wide; achenes small, glabrous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 670444, collected at Camp Douglas, 
Juneau County, Wisconsin, September 9, 1890, by Dr. E. A. Mearns (no. 96). 
Besides the type specimen there are from the same collector and the same 
locality another sheet of the same number, but dated September 13, and two 
others numbered 98 dated September 9. There are two sheets of Mearns 96 
which belong apparently to two other species, 
The specimens more resemble 8. erecta than does any other Western material 
seen, having not only a cylindraceous inflorescence but a similar distribution of 
the foliage. I think, however, that the species really connects most directly 
with 8. sciaphila? and 8. gillmani,; a view countenanced by the location; in any 
case it is not remote from these. It differs from 8S. erecta in its much Jower 
stature, its less spreading branches, the more petiolate tendency of the lower 
leaves, and its smaller heads and narrower rays and tegules. It differs from 
S. sciaphila in its much narrower and differently shaped leaves, these also some- 
what thicker and firmer, and in its somewhat smaller heads with less her- 
baceous involucre. It is a much less heavy plant than 8S. gillmani and erect in 
habit, with far smaller heads. 
Solidago chandonnetii Steele, sp. nov. 
Stem 50 to 75 cm. high, of medium thickness, somewhat decumbent at the 
base and moderately arcuate, also irregularly somewhat flexuous, glabrous well 
into the inflorescence, the summit and the distal part of the branches thinly 
clothed with short, stout, ascending hairs; lower internodes little longer than the 
upper, the leaves rather numerous but not crowded; foliage habit unequally 
fusiform, the leaves longest about one-third the distance from base to inflores- 
cence; none of the leaves much lengthened, the largest about 12 cm. long, the 
lower all petiolate, the upper subpetiolate or at last merely with an attenuate 
base; blades of the lower leaves oblong, at least a few of them ovately nar- 
rowed or even rounder at the apex, those of the middle leaves obovate-lanceolate, 
acute or nearly so, the remaining leaves reducing to oblanceolate, continuing 3 
cm. long up to the inflorescence; all the leaves of medium thickness, firmly 
coriaceous, roughened on the slightly upturned margin, otherwise smooth and 
glabrous, pinnately veined but the veins conspicuous only in the lower leaves, 
rather densely reticulate all over, the lines somewhat more prominent beneath ; 
inflorescence paniculate, ovoid, in weaker specimens more narrowly so, rather 
dense, the racemes contiguous or a little separated, the upper racemes simple, 
the lower moderately compounded, the heads humerous; heads narrowly cam- 
panulate, only 4 to 5 mm. deep; medial tegules oblong, the inner linear-oblong, 
both varying somewhat in width, ovately tipped or more rounded; all firm in 
texture, slightly herbaceous in the middle as indicated by a brown line, some- 
what glutinous, minutely double-keeled, the ridges tending to form a loop above, 
but this mostly obscure; disk flowers about 6 to 5, ray flowers about 5 to 7. 
‘ Involucre bracts. 
* Contr. Nat. Herb. 18: 371. 1911. 
* Op. cit. 367. 
