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toward the base, sessile, serrate with acute or acutish serratures, 
pinnately veined, less than 3 inches long, glabrous; heads five- 
flowered, larger than in the allied ‘species ; involucral bracts 
broader and more closely imbricated, obtuse, or some of the 
inner ones with asetaceoustip. Intermediate between LZ. rotund- 
tfolium and E. sessilifolium. 
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. G. R. Vasey. 1878. 
EUPATORIUM SESSILIFOLIUM, L., var. BRITTONIANUM, n. var. 
Stems and branches slender; leaves ovate, sessile, acute or some- 
what acuminate, 114 inches long or less, serrulate, glabrous, 
pinnately veined; corymbed panicles contracted, about three 
inches broad. 
Budd’s Lake, Morris Co., N. J. Sept., 1876. 
This striking variety is named in honor of the author of the 
Catalogue of the Plants of New Jersey. 
SOLIDAGO PUBERULA, Nutt., var. MONTICOLA, n. var. Stem 
erect, 3 to 12 inches high, usually deep purplish brown, minutely 
puberulent ; leaves dark green; panicle a contracted thyrsus, 2 
to 4 inches long; heads of flowers larger; involucral bracts lan- 
ceolate-subulate ; rays conspicuous, bright yellow, even when 
dried ; akenes pubescent. 
Mt. Kineo, Maine, 1871; Dog Mountain (Mt. Desert Island), 
Maine, Rand; Mount Monadnock, N. H., Deane. 
The dwarf forms on the tops of the highest mountains can 
scarcelybe distinguished from S. Virgaurea, L., var. alpina, Bige- 
low. At lower elevations in the same region another form of S. 
Puberula occurs, which connects this variety with the type. It 
is taller, 3 feet high. . The stems and foliage are paler, the puber- 
ulence on the stems scanty, the panicles larger, looser, branching, 
and the akenes pubescent with a few scattered hairs. It was col- 
lected by Mr. Edwin Faxon at Shelburne, N. H., and by ne 
Redfield on Mt. Desert Island, and may deserve varietal distinction. 
SOLIDAGO HUMILIS, Pursh., var. MICROCEPHALA, n. var. 
Heads of flowers numerous and very small for the species, scarce- 
ly a line and a half long. 
; Frenchman’s Camp Road, Mt. Desert, Maine, Redfield, Aug., © 
1OQT, ! 
SOLIDAGO Boorru, Hook., var. YADKINENSIS, 0. var. Stem 
