COMPOSITE FAMILY. 1'J.J 



32. INULA, ELECAMPANE. (Ancient Latin name.) Fl. summer. ^ 



I. Heldnium, COMMON ELICCAMPANK. In old gardens and nat. from 

 En. liy road>ides ; a stout herb, with steins 3 - 5 high from a thick mucilagi- 

 nous root (used in medicine), large entire leaves woolly beneath, those from the 

 root ovate and petioled, the others partly clasping ; heads large, but the rays 



very narrow. 



33. CHRYSOPSIS, GOLDEN ASTER. (Name from two Greek words 

 meaning golden in ap/xannn-c, from the yellow flowers.) Low herbs, wild 

 chiefly S. & W., in dry and barren or sandy soil : fl. summer and autumn. 



C. graminifolia, from Delaware S. : silvery-silky, with long lance-linear 

 and grass-like shining nerved leaves, and single or few heads. Ij. 



C. falcata, on the coast, from Cape Cod to New Jersey : only 4' - 10' high, 

 woolly, clothed to the top with short and linear 3-nerved rigid leaves, which are 

 often curved or scythe-shaped (whence the specific name); heads small, 

 corymbed. 2/ 



C. gOSS^pina, from Virginia S. : white-cottony all over (whence the name), 

 with oblong obtuse rarely toothed leaves, and few pretty large heads. 2/ 



C. Mariana, the commonest species, from Long Island S. : silky with long 

 and weak hairs, or smoothish when old, with oblong leaves, and a few corymbed 

 heads on glandular peduncles. 2/ 



C. villosa, from Wisconsin S. & W. : coarsely hairy and somewhat hoary, 

 leafv to the top, with corymbed branches bearing single heads on short pedun- 

 cles, and narrow-oblong leaves. 2/ 



34. SOLIDAGO, GOLDEN-ROD. (Old name, from Latin word to make 

 whole, from supposed healing qualities.) There are very many species, flow- 

 ering through late summer and autumn. See Manual and Chapman's S. 

 Flora. The following are a few of the very commonest. 2/ 



1. Ihuds i-'ii^ti /<</ in the axils of the feather-veined leaves. 



S. bicolor. Pale and downy or hairy, with oblong or lance-oblong scarcely 

 toothed leaves, and small heads with cream-colored or nearly white ray -flowers ! 



S. latifdlia, of shaded banks N. : smooth, with broadly ovate pointed and 

 sharply serrate thin leaves, and bright yellow ray-flowers. 



S. C8BSia is like the last, but with more branched and glaucous stems, and 

 lanceolate or lance-oblong sessile leaves. 



2. Hwds in racemes forming a termijial panicle. 

 * Leaces feather-veined, not 3-riUn if. 



S, argllta. Smooth, with the lowest and root-leaves oblong or lance-oval 

 pointed and sharply toothed, the upper narrower and entire ; the slender one- 

 sided naked raceme's widely spreading or drooping. 



S. altissima, badly named, as it is mostly only high, one of the 



earliest-flowering Golden-rods, with rough-hairy stem, small lance-ovate or 

 oblong and serrate very veiny leaves, and one-sided recurving racemes of small 

 heads of bright-yellow flowers. 



* * Leaves feather-veined and ind'tstincthj triple-ribbed, entire or nearly so, grayith. 

 S. nemoralis, in dry open ground, flowering soon after midsummer only 



l-2 hi-h, pale with very minute down ; the. leaves spatulate-oblong or pblan- 

 eeolate ; one-sided dense racemes numerous and at length recurving, and 

 bright golden-yellow. 



* * * La,-,* p/aiul,/ filler :;-//'./,.,/ or tripli'-rihl^f : racemes one-sided, n-,.,,-,1,,1, 



xprunli'ntf or recurving andfirmi'ig an ample jutn- 

 S. Canadensis, has rough-hairy stems lanceolate and usually serrate 



pointed leaves rather downy beneath' but rough above, and small heads with 



short ravs. 

 S. gigantea is smooth or smootliish, especially the stem, and with larger 



head.- and rays than the preceding. 



