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acuminate tips; achenes pubescent or nearly smooth._Named in 
honor of Mr. Edward L. Rand. 
Rather common on the mountains of Northern New Eng- 
land and New York; abundant on Mt. Desert Island, Me., Rand 
and Redfield; shores of Lake Champlain, Vt., Pringle. Passes 
gradually into the next. 
Solidago Virgaurea, 1, var. monticola. (S. puberula, Nutt., var. 
monticola, Porter, BULLETIN xix. 129.) 
Stems 3 to 12 inches high, often slender; inflorescence a 
short, compact or sometimes loose thryse, 2 to 4 inches long; 
heads 1% to 3 lines long; scales of the involucre variable, ovate 
and bluntish or oblong and obtuse, inner ones not elongated. 
Common on the highest points of Mt. Desert Island, Rand 
and Redfield; Mt. Kineo, Me., Porter; summit of Mt. Monad- 
nock (el. 3169 ft.), Deane ; Willoughby Mountain, Vt., Rusby. 
Solidago Virgaurea, L.,var. REDFIELDII, n. var —Very glutinous. 
Stems stout snd rigid, 16-18 inches high ; leaves thickish or cori- 
aceous ; branches of the panicle starting from half way down the 
stem or even from the base, strict, erect, bearing short clusters of 
heads in the upper bracts; heads small, 2-3 lines long; scales of 
the involucre short, more or less scarious. Its inflorescence is 
strikingly like that of S. juncea, Ait., var. vamosa, Porter and Brit- 
ton.—Named in honor of Mr. John H. Redfield. 
Western Mt. and Frenchman Camp Road, Mt. Desert Island, 
Me., Rand and Redfield; Summit Rock, Indian Pass, Adiron- 
dacks, N.Y. (el. 2600 ft.), Dr. Britton. 
Solidago Virgaurea, L., var. GILMANI (A. Gray). 
Solidago humilis, Pursh_—Stems slender, strict, minutely puber- 
ulent above, 4-18 inches high, the dwarf and taller ones growing 
together and often from the same roots, leafy; radical and lower 
‘leaves narrowly oblanceolate, and attenuated downward into 
slightly-margined petioles, serrulate above the middle, cauline ones 
lance-linear, entire, acute, glabrous; inflorescence glutinous, in the 
dwarf forms a short raceme, in the taller ones a loose or compact, _ 
virgate thyrse 5-8 inches long; heads 3-4% lines high ; scales ¢ 
the involucre oblong-linear, obtuse, or the inner ones acutish, 
sometimes golden-yellow ; achenes pubescent. (Plate CLV). 
On the rocky shores of rivers. Onion a eae Vermont, Rob- 
