120 MoiiR : Plants of the At.auama Flora 



Flowering specimens in 



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■ Rydberg, who pronounced the plant to be most probably new, but 

 which with the scant)' material at the time at command he would 

 not undertake to describe. 



EuPATORiUM LErTOriivLLUM DC. Prod. 5 : 176. 1836 



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Confounded b)- our botanists with Eupatonuin capillifoliuni, 

 with which it grows abundantly in the low fiats of the Coast plain 

 in old fields, pasture grounds and openings of the forest. 



Differs from the latter in the broader divisions of the linear, 

 not filiform leaves, the stouter wide spreading branches and slightly 

 larcrer flowcrinc- heads. 



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Apparently confined to the Coast plain ; eastward to Georgia. 



{Savannah. DC. 



Solidago pallescens sp. nov. 



Stem erect, 2;i to 3 feet high, more or less sparsely branched 

 about the middle, striate pubcrulent : radical leaves oblong lanceo- 

 late, attenuated at the base, with a slender petiole : lower cauline 

 leaves oblong-ovate, contracted into a petiole-like base or sessile, 

 obtuse mucronulate, 21^, to 3 inches long and i to i i^ inches 

 wide, smooth, ciliolate, with several irregular sharp teeth above the 

 middle ; upper cauline and rameal leaves ovate to ovate -lanceolate, 

 all w^ith a prominent midrib, faintly veined, of a pale glaucous 

 hue ;' upper leaves reduced at the flowering branches to spatulatc 

 bractlets : racemes slender, erect, spreading : flowering heads single 

 or few in a cluster, crowded, small, scarcely over yi inch long; in- 

 volucral bracts rigid, obtuse, slightly pubescent on the margin : 

 akenes faintly ribbed, strigose hairy. 



Metamorphic hills. Auburn, Lee county, 800 to 1,000 feet 

 altitude. Baker and Earle, October, 1897. 



A distinctly marked species resembling 5. byacJiyphylla, from 

 which it is readily distinguished by the obtuse mucronulate leaves, 

 nearly all sessile and pale glaucescent, but smaller flowers and 

 faintly ribbed akenes. 



GxAPHALiuM SPATHULATUM Lam. Encycl. 2 : 758. 1786 



This winter annual strikes the observer in the field as clearly 

 distinct from GnapJialimn puipiuruin, with which it has been con- 

 founded. Specimens submitted to Professor E. L. Greene were de- 



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