Arron’s Hortus Kewensis we have ascertained by com | 
ing it with the specimens preserved in the Banksian Her- | 
barium. In the dried subjects, however, we find the leave | 
to be scabrous along the margin and nerves. The short- 
ness of the florets of the ray, which scarcely exceed those 
of the disk, has easily led to its being confounded with 
Chrysocoma, and we have little doubt but that the Chry- 
socoma dracunculoides of Lamarck belongs to this species. _ 
Micuavx describes two varieties, one with larger and 
fewer, the other with smaller and more numerous leaves, to 
the former of which our plant belongs, but perhaps they 
are distinct species. = 
Although Solidago lanceolata is a plant of no great| 
beauty, yet, having been involved in much uncertainty, we 
are happy in an opportunity of giving a figure of it, espe | 
cially as we know of no previous existing one. "a 
A hardy herbaceous perennial. Native of North Ame- | 
rica, certainly of Hudson’s Bay and Canada, and, according 
to Pursu, as low as Pensylvania. Flowers in September _ 
and October Communi¢ated by Mr. Wurrzey from the 
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Fulham nursery, in September 1824. 
