216 COMPOSITiE. Solidago. 



45. S. li7io'ules (Solaiid. in herb. Banks.): smooth and glabrous; stem 

 slender, simple ; leaves lanceolate, finely appressed-serrate, with ciliolate- 

 scabrous margins; the radical and lower cauline acute or acuminate at both 

 ends, on slender ciliate petioles ; the upper often oblong, sometimes entire ; 

 panicle small, turned to one side (rarely compound), the short racemes at 

 length open, secund ; scales of the involucre oblong-linear, obtuse, appressed; 

 rays 1-3, short, the disk-flowers 4-5; achenia glabrous. — Bigelovia? unili- 

 gulata, DC! 2^'rodr. 5. p. 329, excl. syn. Chrysoma uniligulata, Nutt. in 

 trans. Amcr. phil. soc. {n. ser.) 7. p. 325. Solidago uliginosa, partly, Nutt. ! 

 in jour. acad. Philad. 1. p. 101. 



Sphagnous swamps of Wading River, &c. in the pine barrens of New 

 Jersey! Near Boston, Mr. Greene.' {in herb. Hook.) Sept.-Oct. — A slen- 

 der plant, 12 to 20 inches high; with a panicle only 3 or 4 inches long, some- 

 what contracted, usually turned to one side ; the short and rather crowded 

 racemes at length spreading or somewhat recurved; heads small. Radical 

 and lowest cauline leaves 2-5 inches long, tapering into a petiole about the" 

 same length, half an inch wide; the upper gradually reduced in size, less 

 tapering, sessile. Achenia often with a few minute scattered hairs when 

 young. — Somewhat allied to S. virgata, and especially to S. stricta : it is a 

 more slender plant than the latter, with a different inflorescence, and fewer 

 flowers. The ray is frequently reduced to a single flower, and those of the 

 disk to four; but we quite as commonly find 2 to 4 rays (in the specimens 

 from which De CandoUe was supplied), showing the little consequence that 

 can be atfached to this character: nearly every section of Solidago presents 

 species with only one or two rays. — We have adopted the name which, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Boott, was applied to this species by Solander. This and S. 

 stricta appear to have been more or less confounded by Nuttall under his S. 

 uliginosa; Dr. Pickering's specimens from "sphagnous swamps and marshy 

 thickets in Massachusetts," preserved in the herbarium of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, belonging entirely to S. stricta; while others from New 

 Jersey belong to the present species. 



t t Leaves (small) serrate, copiously feather-veined, the veinlets conspicuoiisly 

 reticulated: heads small. 



46. <S. altisshna (Linn.): stem hirsute with rough hairs; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute at each end or acuminate, sessile, 

 coarsely serrate with sharp and unequal spreading teeth, strongly feather- 

 veined and more or less reticulated, often rugose, scabrous above, hirsute on 

 the veins beneath; racemes paniculate, secund (ascending or recurved); 

 scales of the involucre linear; rays 6-9, small; the disk-flowers 4-7; ache- 

 nia pubescent. — Linn. spec. 2. p. 878; Ait.! Kew. (ed. 1) 3. p. 212; IVilld. 

 spec. 3. p. 2058 ; Bis;el. fl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 305 ; Hoolc. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 

 2; Darlingt! fl.. Cest. p. 456. (Virga-Aurea spec. Dill. Elth.f. 391,^392,4- 

 393.) (S. altissima, pilosa, recurvata, & Virginiana, Mill. diet. S. altis- 

 sima, aspera, rugosa, & villosa, Pursh, fl. 2. p. 536. S. altissima, aspera, 

 rugosa, & humilis, DC! j^rodr. 5. p. 333. S^r.) 



p. stem villous; leaves thin, strongly and sharply serrate, often nearly 

 smooth ?nd glabrous above, and rather softly hairy on the veins beneath. — 

 S. altissima /?. Ait. I. c. S. villosa, {Herb. Banks!) Pursh! fl. 2. p. 537; 

 Hook.! fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 2; not of DC. — Varies, with the racemes at 

 first erect, at length recurved. S. humilis, Dcsf. ! cat. hort. Par. ed. 3. p. 

 402 ; DC. ! prodr. 5. p. 336 ; not of Pursh. 



y. stem scabrous-pubescent or somewhat hirsute ; leaves serrate with ap- 

 pressed teeth, varying from ovate-oblong to lanceolate (the uppermost not 

 narrowed at the base), reticulated, mostly rugose. — Virga-Aurea Novae An- 

 e;lice rugosis foliis crenatis. Dill. Elfh. t. 308, /. 396. Solidago rugosa. 

 Mill; Willd. spec. 3. f. 2058; Ait. Kew. {ed. 2) 5. p. 66; Pursh! fl. 2. 



