228 COMPOSITE. Solidago. 



t X Species founded on garden specimens {many of unknoion or uncertain ori- 

 gin), which we have not identified ivith native plants. 



* Racemes erect. 



79. S. grandfjlora (Desf.) : clothed with a short and close villous pubes- 

 cence, somewhat scabrous ; leaves elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, finely ser- 

 rate, acute; the lower narrowed at the base; racemes paniculate, forming a 

 thyrsus ; heads 30-40-flowered ; scales of the involucre oblong, obtuse, pu- 

 bescent; rays (large) 8-10; achenia pubescent. — Desf.! cat. hort. Par. ed. 

 3. p. 403 ; 'DC. prodr. 5. p. 337. 



North America? the particular origin unknown; cultivated in the Garden 

 of Plants, Paris. — We have seen no indigenous specimens of this species ; 

 which has much the aspect of S. rigida, and its heads are nearly the same 

 size ; but the rather loose racemes are paniculate, the upper shorter and with 

 {q\v heads, so that the inflorescence forms a pj^ramidal thyrsus or panicle 

 instead of a fastigiate corymb ; the scales of the involucre are narrower and 

 less obtuse ; the achenia clothed with a minute pubescence ; even the upper 

 leaves are serrulate, and the radical (which we have not seen) are said to be 

 scarcely petioled. 



80. S. multiflora (Desf.) : stem erect, glabrous, terete, very much branched, 

 the paniculate branches sparsely pubescent ; leaves sessile, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, serrate, glabrous, or the uppermost somewhat pubescent along the 

 nerves ; racemes erect ; scales of the involucre glabrous, acute ; rays rather 

 longer than the disk. DC. — Desf ! cat. hort. Par. ed. 1804, p. 103, 

 if ed. 3. p. 402 ; Pers. syn. 2. p. 449; DC! prodr. 5. p. 336. 



Said to be of North American origin ; but we have seen no native speci- 

 mens which accord with the cultivated plant. The heads resemble S. Cana- 

 densis, but the racemes are very short, in erect panicles. Achenia pubescent. 

 Leaves somewhat scabrous above ; the upper slightly triplinerved, the 

 midrib pubescent. 



81. S.fuscata (Desf.): very glabrous; stem erect, brownish-red, smooth 

 [terete]; leaves lanceolate, quite entire; racemes erect; pedicels short, 

 bracteolate ; scales of the involucre oblong, glabrous, scarcely acute ; rays 

 5-6, linear, a little longer than the disk; the disk-flowers 6-7. DC. — '■*Desf. ! 

 cat. hort. Par. ed. 3. p. 402"; DC! prodr. 5. p. 340. 



North America ? — Unknown to us as a native plant. The leaves are not 

 unlike S. speciosa. 



82. S. plantaginea (Desf.) : glabrous ; stem angled ; leaves triplinerved, 

 slightly serrulate, acute, narrowed towards the base; the lower ovate ; flori- 

 ferous branches erect, leafy. Desf. cat. I. c. p. 402. 



Cultivated in the Paris Garden ; probably of American origin. — Very 

 glabrous: stem 3-4 feet high. Flower-branches panicled; the partial 

 racemes of few small heads. Pedicels with subulate bracts. Desf. — This 

 is referred by De Candolle to his S. elliptica. 



83. iS. /iirte (Willd.) : stem paniculate, hirsute; leaves lanceolate, sca- 

 brous on both sides ; the cauline serrate, those of the branches entire ; ra- 

 cemes erect; rays elongated. Willd. emim. p. 891. 



North America. — Sufficiently distinguished by its hirsute stem, and sca- 

 brous leaves ; the cauline deeply and sharply serrate. Willdenow. — It has 

 never been identified in this country. 



84. S. lithospermifolia (Willd.): stem branching, pubescent; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, attenuate, "scabrous on both sides, triplinerved, entire; racemes 

 erect; rays elongated. Willd. enum. p. 892 ; Link, enum. 2. p. 332 ; DC. 

 prodr. 5. p. 339'. 



