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erect, rather slender, 2 to 4 ft. high, more or less angled, scabrous- 
pubescent above ; leaves lanceolate, sessile, acuminate, sparingly 
serrate; branches of the panicle elongated and ascending, ter- 
minated by short, secund racemes made up of a few scattered 
heads, either solitary or in small clusters, on short peduncles; 
heads four lines long or more; outer involucral bracts closely _ 
imbricated, obtuse, their tips green, the inner ones linear-oblong, _ 
pale yellow; rays conspicuous, 5 to 7; disk florets, 14 to 16; 
akenes puberulent. . 
Collected on the Yadkin river, North Carolina, by Messrs. Small 
& Heller, Aug. 18, 1891. No. 373. Asingle specimen, obtained 
by the Rev. M. A. Curtis years ago in the same region, exists in 
the Torrey Herbarium, under which Dr. Gray has written, “A 
great form!” 
SOLIDAGO SPECIOSA, Nutt., var. PALLIDA, n. var. Stout, erect, 
I to 2 ft. high; leaves ovate, thick and coriaceous, with promi- 
nent veins, pale or whitish ; heads as large as those of the type. 
Bergen Park, Colorado, Aug., 1877, Greene; Mt. Mackay, 
Canada, Sept., 1889, Britton. 
SOLIDAGO ROANENSIS, n. sp. Stems 2 to 2% feet high, 
reddish, smooth below, puberulent above; leaves thin, glabrous; 
lower ones elliptical, sharply serrate, tapering into margined 
petioles ; upper ones lanceolate, acute or acuminate ; panicles vit- 
gate and thyrsoid, from 4 to 8 inches long; heads 4 lines high, 
peduncled, not closely crowded; inner bracts of the involucre 
linear, acuminate; outer ones shorter, somewhat obtuse; rays 
short, scarcely equalling the disk ; akenes oblong, terete, glabrous. 
Roan mountain, North Carolina, A. A. Heller, Aug. 13th 
1890. No. 88. 
In general aspect and some of its characters it resembles 5: 
puberula, but the foliage is quite different. and the involucral — 
br. acts much narrower. The heads of flowers are those of 5: 
spithamea, but the akenes are perfectly smooth, and the inflores- 
cence an elongated thyrse. It seems to be intermediate betwee” 
the two species. 
TRIPSACUM FLORIDANUM, n. 5 
rather stout, leafy; leaves 1 to 2 feet long, crowded at the base, 
I to 3 lines wide, from flattened, whitish, coriaceous sheaths and 
p. Culm erect, 3 feet high, 
aor eae eens 
