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color throughout. Rootstock long, chaffy, horizontal ; stem 5—15 
dm. long, erect, simple below the inflorescence ; basal leaves tufted, 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolete, the blade 10-30 cm. long, acute at 
_ the apex, acuminate at the base, the petiole 0-15 cm. long, winged ; 
cauline leaves lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 3-15 
cm. long, erect and appressed, acute at the apex, sessile, the lower 
ones like the basal, serrate with a few distant appressed or spread- 
ing teeth ; inflorescence consisting of a simple terminal secund ra- 
ceme or thyrse; heads campanulate, stalked, 3-4 mm. high, 25-35 
flowered ; involucral bracts in four to five series, oblong or linear- 
oblong, 1-2 mm. long, ciliate, obtuse, with a dark-green midrib 
and tip ; corolla slightly longer than the pappus, more or less pubes- 
cent; rays yellow, oblong-spatulate, entire, 2—3-apiculate ; achene 
columnar, obtuse at the base, 10-14-ribbed, pubescent with a few 
Spreading hairs. 
This species was first described as a variety of Solidago Boottit 
by Prof. Porter, from collections made by Mr. Heller and myself 
in middle North Carolina in 1891. On first meeting with the 
plant it seemed to me a good species, and field observations on it 
each succeeding season have convinced me of its specific validity. 
It grows only in rather open meadows scattered through the 
pine woods. The first specimens seen were of the simple type 
(z.é, in which the inflorescence consisted of a simple terminal 
raceme) and not over six dm. tall. They were found near Gold 
Hill, N.C. Last season I found this type near the base of Dunn’s 
Mountain, in the vicinity of Salisbury, N.C. However, a more 
robust and branched form is the more common state, and this oc- 
curs at many localities in middle North Carolina. Up to last 
Season Solidago Vadkinensis was not known to grow outside the 
last mentioned region, but in September (1894) I met the plant 
growing luxuriently at two stations in middle Georgia; the one a 
botanically prolific meadow near Loganville, Walton county, and 
the other meadows near the base of Little Stone Mountain, De- 
Kalb county. The Georgia specimens are a little more robust 
than those from North Carolina, but otherwise they are almost 
identical. The variation that does exist is due to the less exposed 
conditions under which the Georgia plants grew. 
