70 Rhodora [Marcu 
of the first volume of the Reise. His account of the plant is as fol- 
lows (the English being that of Morrison’s translation): 
“ We continued the way we had come [along the Juniata River in 
Bedford County, Pennsylvania], over Crossing-hill, Rays-hill, and 
Sideling-hill, and spent the night at MacDonald’s tavern, where the 
coffee is drunk out of tin-ware, there are potatoes to eat, and straw to 
sleep upon, and a prodigiously dear reckoning. 
Here we were introduced to still another domestic tea-plant, a 
variety of Solidago. The leaves were gathered and dried over 
a slow fire. It was said that around Fort Littleton many 100 pounds 
of this Bohea-tea, as they call it, had been made as long as the Chinese 
was scarcer. Our hostess praised its good taste, but this was not 
conspicuous in what she brewed.” 
It is evident that the plant discussed is that commonly known as 
Solidago odora, a name published by Aiton in 1789, for not only does 
the description apply certainly to S. odora, but the Plukenet citation 
also refers to the same species. Since Schoepf's name was published 
a year earlier than Aiton’s, the former is the one which must be 
adopted. It is noteworthy that the now unfamiliar name hereafter 
to be applied to this plant, one of the two or three easily recognizable 
species of Solidago, is fully as descriptive and distinctive of the plant 
as the name it displaces, being, in fact, practically synonymous with it. 
The essential synonymy of the species is summarized below. 
SOLIDAGO SUAVEOLENS Schoepf, Reise Ver. Nordamer. Staaten i. 
466 (1788). S. odora Ait Hort. Kew. iii. 214 (1789). S. retrorsa 
Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 117 (1803). S. puncticulata DC. Prodr. v. 
332 (1836). The type locality is presumably in Bedford County, 
Pennsylvania. 
U. S. NaTioNAL Museum, Washington, D. C. 
AN UNUSUAL Daucus Carota.— Miss Emily F. Fletcher recently 
brought to the Gray Herbarium a very striking specimen of Daucus 
Carota L. in which nearly half of the compound umbel, instead of 
1SOLIDAGO suaveolens; foliis lanceolato-linearibus, integerrimis, acutis, subquinque- 
nerviis, punctatis, glabris, tenerrime ciliatis.— Virga aurea americana, tarraconis facie & 
sapore, panicula speciosissima. Pluk. alm. p. 389. tab. 116. f. 6.— A species similar to this 
grows about New York, and has a pleasant odor of anise, noticeable also in the plant here, 
but weaker; no doubt because it was already late in the season and it had suffered from the cold. 
? Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. i. pt. 2, 151 (1884). 
