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1915)  Fernald,— Some new or unrecorded Compositae 7 
hirsute with hairs 0.5-1 mm. long: bracts of the involucre attenuate.— 
NEWFOUNDLAND: open rocky woods, Middle Birchy Pond, East 
Branch of the Humber, July 13, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 4097 
(TYPE in Gray Herb.). 
SOLIDAGO UNILIGULATA (DC.) Porter, var. levipes, n. var., ramis 
paniculae pedicellisque glabris vel glabratis glutinosisque. 
Branches of the panicle and pedicels glabrous or glabrate and 
glutinous.— New York: Penn Yan, Sartwell (rype in Gray Herb.); 
Bergen Swamp, 1880, C. H. Peck. ONTARIO: Pt. Edward, River St. 
Clair, September 14, 1884, J. Macoun. 
In typical S. uniligulata as it grows in the bogs from Newfoundland 
to New Jersey the branches or the pedicels are conspicuously hirtellous. 
This typical form of the species occasionally extends inland to the 
Great Lake Region but the plant above described seems to be an 
extreme confined to western New York and Ontario, 
SoLriDAGO ELLrorTII T. & G., var. divaricata, n. var., caule 4-5 dm. 
alto sparse villoso; foliis confertis ellipticis 3-6 cm. longis 1.5-2 em. 
latis subtus ad nervos sparse setosis, margine grosse crenato-serratis; 
panicula foliosa 1-1.5 dm. longa 1-1.3 dm. lata, ramis divaricatis apice 
recurvatis valde secundis bracteolatisque foliis amplis suffultis. 
Stem 4-5 dm. high, sparingly villous: leaves crowded, elliptic, 
3-6 cm. long, 1.5-2 em. broad, sparingly setose on the nerves beneath; 
the margin coarsely crenate-serrate: panicle leafy, 1-1.5 dm. long, 
1-1.3 dm. broad; the branches divaricate, recurved at apex, con- 
spicuously secund and bracteolate, subtended by ample leaves.— 
Ruope IstANp: meadow northeast of Fresh Pond, Block Island, 
September 15, 1913, Fernald, Long & Torrey, no. 10,543 (TYPE in 
Gray Herb.). 
Very strongly simulating S. rugosa, var. villosa in its leafy inflorse- 
cence with widely divergent or recurved branches; but with the 
involucre (5-5.5 mm. long) exactly as in S. Elliotiii. In the slightly 
villous stem and the sparingly setose nerves of the leaves also suggest- 
ing S. rugosa, which, however, has much smaller heads. 
SoLrpAGo RUGOsA Mill., var. aspera (Ait.), n. comb. S. aspera Ait. 
Hort. Kew. iii. 212 (1789). 
Field-experience through several seasons with this plant has con- 
vinced the writer that it is better treated as an extreme variation of 
S. rugosa than as a distinct species. "Var. aspera is more abundant 
southward than is typical S. rugosa and commonly prefers drier 
habitats. 
