Solidago. COMPOSITE. 151 



or linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading (l to 4 inches long, half-inch or much less in width) : 

 rays rather small. (A form, var. inodora, Gray, Man., growing with the ordinary plant, is 

 scentless ) Ait. Kew. iii. 214 (Pluk. Aim. t. 110, f. 6, & 236, C\ ) ; Pursh, Fl. ii. 539 ; Bigel. 

 Med. But. i. 188, t. 20; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 219. &. retrorsa, Michx. Fl. ii. 117. S. punc- 

 ticu/ata, DC. Prodr. v. 332. Dry or sandy soil, Canada to Florida and Texas, chiefly near 

 the coast, but as far interior as Kentucky. (Mex.) 



S. Chapmani, GRAY. Bather stouter and more rigid : stem roughish-puberulent above : 

 leaves oblong or elliptical, obtuse or even rounded at. the apex, about an inch long; those 

 next the broad expanding thyrsus very small, often roundish. Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 80, 

 xvii. 193. 6'. odom, Chapm. Fl. 213, in part. Pine barrens of Florida, C/tupman, Garber, 

 Cwtiss, distributed as S. tort/folia. Between S. odora and S. pi/osa. 

 = = Lower leaves more or less serrulate and ail scabrous or pubescent, not punctate, more 



evidently veiny than the preceding, spreading: stem very leafy: rays small, hardly surpassing 



the disk-flowers. 



S. tortifolia, Er-L. Stem slender, 2 or 3 feet high, scabrous-puberulent : leaves all linear 

 (an inch or two long, lj to 3 lines wide), acutish, commonly twisted, especially in age, hir- 

 tello-pubcrulent or glabrate, the lower with a few sharp denticulations : heads small, few- 

 flowered. Sk. ii. 377 ; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 97 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 220. 6'. odora, 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 118, not Ait. S. retrvrsn, Pursh, Fl. ii. 539; Nutt. Gen. ii. 159, not Michx. - 

 Dry sandy soil, coast of Virginia to Florida and Texas. 



S. pilosa, WALT. Stem stouter, 3 to 7 feet high, hirstite with short spreading hairs : leaves 

 lanceolate-oblong (2 or 3 inches long), or the upper elliptical or oblong (8 to 18 lines long), 

 these mostly obtuse, the midrib beneath and margins scabrous- or hirsute-ciliate ; the lower 

 with some acute small teeth: rays several or few and trifid, very small. Car. 207 (not 

 Mill. Diet.) ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 219. S.jistulosa, Mill. Diet. S. altissima, Michx. 1. c., ex 

 herb. S. i>i/r<tmid<itu, Pursh, Fl. ii. 537; Nutt. Gen. ii. 118. S. villosa, Ell. Sk. ii. 372; 

 DC. Prodr. v. 333. Moist ground, New Jersey (pine barrens) to Florida and Louisiana, in 

 the low country : flowering late. 



H- -H- -w- -H- Leaves not small for the size of the plant, not prominently veiny, of firm texture, 

 entire or little serrate, glabrous and smooth, but sometimes with ciliolate-scabrous margins: 

 heads (middle-sized) crowded in thyrsoid inflorescence, not secund. 



= Pacific species: rays rather numerous (8 to 15) and small: akenes pubescent. 



S. Tolmieana. 'Low, a foot or less high, leafy up to the short and rather broad inflores- 

 cence of spiciform somewhat corymbosely disposed clusters : leaves thiekish and veins very 

 inconspicuous, linear or lanceolate (2 or 3 inches long), entire, rarely with some minute ser- 

 ratures, the margins usually scabrous-ciliolate : heads about 3 lines high : iuvolucral bracts 

 lanceolate, acutish, thin. (Has been taken for a form of 5. Missouriensis, var. montuua.) 

 Idaho, Washington Territory and Oregon ; first coll. by Tulmie, then by Scalding and later 

 collectors. 



S. Guiradonis, GRAY. Slender, 2 feet high, hearing rather few heads in a simple virgate 

 thyrsus : leaves all quite entire, thiekish, bright green, attenuately cuspidate-acuminate ; 

 radical and lower cauline linear-lanceolate (2 to 4 lines wide, about 4 inches long) ; upper 

 more attenuate: bracts of the involucre small, lanceolate or linear, acutish. Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vi. 543, & Bot. Calif., in part. California, along brooks, base of San Carlos Peak, 

 Fresno Co., Guirado, an assistant of Prof- Brewer. 



S. Spectabilis, GRAY. A foot or two high : heads numerous and crowded in a narrow or 

 compound and broader thyrsus : leaves paler, sometimes thinner ; cauline lanceolate, or the 

 small uppermost becoming linear, acute ; lower and radical spatulate-lanceolate or oblong, 

 acutish or obtuse, often an inch wide and obscurely triple-ribbed ; radical rarely with a few 

 serratures ; involucral bracts lanceolate or broader, mostly obtuse. Proc. Am. A cad. 

 xvii. 193. S. Guirndonfs, var. spectabili's, Eaton, Bot. King Exp. 154. S. Guiradonis, in 

 part, Gray, Bot. Calif i. 319; Botnrock in Wheeler Rep., c. From the western slopes of 

 the Sierra Nevada, California, to the interior mountains of Nevada, Bloomer, Watson, &c. 

 = = Atlantic species: akenes glabrous or sometimes slightly and sparsely pubescent : ray f con- 

 spicuous, 5 or 6. 



S. uliginosa, NUTT. Stem 2 or 3 fro 1 high, strict : loives lanceolate and oblong-lanceolate, 

 mostly acute or acuminate, acutely and sparsely serrulate or else entire; radical and lower 



