STEELE—GOLDENRODS FROM THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. 223 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 691211, collected at Perham, Otter- 
tail County, Minnesota, August 6, 1912, by Rey. Z. L. Chandonnet. 
The National Herbarium has a second specimen of the same collection and 
another from the same locality, August 10, 1911, Chandonnet 3789; also (later 
received) from the same collector, unnumbered, two specimens from the Otter- 
tail River, August 13, 1912; three from Perham, August 22, 1912; and two from 
Luce, Ottertail County, August 23, 1912. There is besides these also a sheet 
with two good plants from Zumbrota, Goodhue County, Minnesota, August, 
1892, C. A. Ballard. 
The habitat is indicated as sometimes dry, sandy soil, sometimes prairie. 
This species differs from 8. rigidiuscula in its sparser, biserial foliage and its 
ovoid panicle. It has in its foliage a distinct look toward 8. fisheri, but it is a 
lower and relatively stouter plant with a larger and more dense inflorescence, 
smaller heads, and heavier involucres. 
The National Herbarium is indebted to Father Chandonnet for other im- 
portant communications. 
Solidago fisheri Steele, sp. nov. 
Stem 80 to 90 em. high, reducible to 60 cm., slender, smooth nearly or quite 
to the inflorescence, there thinly or distally more thickly, hispidulous; lower 
and upper stem leaves well differentiated; four or five lower internodes 3 to 5d 
em. long, the corresponding leaves (excluding imperfect ones at base) well 
petioled, the largest 11 to 17 cm, long, the blades oblong or, especially below, 
narrowly obovate, 20 to 42 mm. wide, obtuse or apiculate, rather finely feather- 
veined, reticulate in the intervals, the margin entire or commonly with a few 
low teeth or crenations toward the summit, the petioles always margined, rather 
variable in length and breadth; remaining leaves subpetiolate nearly through- 
out, gradually reduced in length and breadth, entire; all the leaves slightly 
thick and somewhat coriaceous, rather firm, smooth except the margin, appar- 
ently rather green when fresh; inflorescence paniculate, narrowly ovoid or 
cylindraceous, 15 to 21 cm. long, sometimes reduced, rather loose, the slender 
branches placed at an angle of about 45 degrees, only a few of the longest 
racemes at all compounded, the bracts of the inflorescence linear to filiform, 
the pedicels slender, the longer 3 to 5 mm. long; heads narrowly campanulate, 
5 to 6 mm. long; lower tegules oblong, the following linear-oblong, both ovate 
at the tip, rather thick and firm; disk flowers 5 to 7; ray flowers 5 to 9; rays 
oblong-oblanceolate; achenes very small, glabrous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 619505, collected at Michigan 
City, Laporte County, Indiana, August 12, 1909, by George L. Fisher (no. 107). 
On sand hills. 
The National Herbarium has three other specimens from the same source, 
and a smal] specimen almost surely the same from sandy bluffs at Kilbourn, 
Wisconsin (August 26, 1909, Steele 40). The type sheet bears two large indi- 
viduals. 
Solidago jejunifolia Steele, sp. nov. 
Stem about 77 cm. high, light colored, striate-angled, smooth to the inflor- 
escence, the summit with the branches thinly clothed with very short, coarse, 
ascending hairs; internodes 2 to 3 cm, long for nearly half the leafy segment, 
the upper moderately shorter, a few reduced to 1 cm.; longest leaves about the 
fourth to the sixth from the base, 7 to 8 cm. long, somewhat petiolate, the blade 
oblanceolate or lanceolate, 9 mm. wide, acute or nearly so, the petiole flat and 
rather broad, the leaves below shorter, a little broader and doubtless more 
blunt, the leaves above linear-oblanceolate, ovately acute at the tip, short- 
attenyate at the base; all the leaves rather thick, firmly coriaceous, hispidulous- 
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