Tas. 6805. 
SOLIDAGO DrumMonpil. 
Native of Eastern North America. 
Nat. Ord. Compositm.—Tribe ASTEROIDEX. 
Genus Sorrpaco, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 256.) 
Sortrpaco {Virgaurea) Drummondii; puberula, caule 3-5-pedali ramoso folioso, 
foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis utrinque acutis argute serratis 3-nerviis 
utrinque puberulis superioribus sensim minoribus ovatis integerrimis v. 
denticulatis summis interfloralibus parvis oblongis obtusis integerrimis, inflores- 
centie ramis racemiformibus vy. paniculatis, capitulis secundis, involucri 
glabriusculi squamis erectis lineari-oblongis obtusis, fl. radii 4-5 parvis disci 
5-6, achenio puberulo, pappo brevi. 
8. Drummondii, Zorr. e¢ Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 217; Gray, Synopt. Fl. N. 
Am, vol. i. part ii, p. 159. 
S. ulmifolia, Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. i. p. 97 (not of Nuttall). 
It is a singular fact, that large as the genus Solidago is, 
numbering between seventy and eighty species, all adapted 
for garden outdoor culture, and most useful as being 
amongst the latest flowering of autumnal plants, but one 
(S lanceolata, Tab. 2546) has been figured amongst the 
6800 plates hitherto published in the BoranicaL Macazine. 
This is no doubt due to the undeserved neglect which plants 
too nearly resembling our native ones often experience in 
gardens. The Solidagos, for instance, all bear a general 
resemblance to our common Golden Rod, 8S. Virga-aurea, 
which is considered too common for horticultural purposes, 
though very beautiful in itself, and especially worthy of a 
place in suburban gardens, where colours at a later season 
are so greatly needed. Our grandfathers were wiser in 
their generation, for no less than thirty species are enume- 
rated in the “Hortus Kewensis”’ as cultivated in England, of 
which about half, together with more than as many more, 
are now growing in the herbaceous grounds at Kew (where 
there are in all thirty-four species, with several varieties). 
S. Drummondii is a native of the warmer States of 
MARCH Ist, 1885. 
