230 COMPOSlTiE. Solidago. 



North America : said to be allied to S. arguta and S. elliptica. DC. — 

 This is perhaps our S. neglecta : but we have never observed a verrucose 

 stem in that species. 



90. S. recurvata (Willd.) : stem erect, pubescent; leaves lanceolate, acu- 

 minate (veiny), serrate, nearly glabrous, the margins scabrous ; racemes 

 elongated, secund, panlcled. WiUd. enum. p. 889 ; DC. 'prodr. 5. p. 334. 



North America, Willdenow. — Described from a plant cultivated in the 

 Berlin Botanic Garden. — Leaves glabrous above, slightly scabrous along the 

 nerves beneath. Rays linear-oblong, a little longer than the disk. DC— 

 Pursh is the only American author who pretends to have recognized this 

 species, which he gives as a native of shady woods of Pennsylvania and 

 Virginia. 



91. S. lateriflora (Linn.): panicle corymbose; racemes recurved, as- 

 cending ; stem bearing flower-branches below the middle. Linn. spec. 2. ■ 

 p. 879. 



North America, Kalm. — The plant is said by Linnseus to be half the size 

 of S. Canadensis; the leaves entire or with one or two teeth ; the flowers as 

 in S. altissima; the simple branches rather shorter than the stem, corym- 

 bose. As remarked by Smith, {Rees, cycl.) there is some doubt as to the 

 plant Linnseus had in view, which an inspection of his herbarium does not 

 remove. The plant cultivated under this name appears to have been 

 much changed by long cultivation. As described in the Hortus Kewensis, it 

 is said to have an erect somewhat hairy stem, lanceolate somewhat tripli- 

 nerved glabrous leaves with scabrous margins, the lower somewhat serrate, 

 and the paniculate racemes secund and somewhat recurved. According to 

 Willdenow {enum. p. 889), when cultivated in a shady place, the stem is 

 very simple, with simple axillary racemes, the lower very long, the upper 

 short : but in exposed situations the stem becomes branched. 



92. 5. fragra7is (W\M.) : stem erect, glabrous ; leaves glabrous, oblong, 

 attenuate at each end, slightly triplinerved ; the lower somewhat serrate, the 

 upper entire; racemes more or less secund; pedicels pubescent; bracts 

 linear-subulate, arcuate-recurved; scales of the involucre somewhat green- 

 ish [ovate-lanceolate, acutish] ; rays oblong, rather longer than the disk 

 [achenia silkv-villous]. DC. — Willd. enum. suppl. p. 59, ex Link, enum. 

 2. p. 331 ; DC. ! p>rodr. 5. p. 331. 



North America, Willd.— We have seen no native plant which accords 

 with our specimens of this species, gathered in the Berlin Botanic Garden. 

 It is perhaps a maritime species; and the leaves (which are rather thick, 

 dark green, and shining above, 2-3 inches long, about half an inch wide, mi- 

 nutely veiny,) are scarcely sufficiently 3-ribbed to give it a place among fhe 

 Triplinervia. The racemes are mostly axillary, rather crowded, and 

 scarcely longer than the leaves ; the heads fulh^ middle-sized ; the exterior 

 scales of the involucre greenish: and the achenia clothed with white ap- 

 pressed hairs. 



93. ^5^. duhia (Scopoli) : stem erect, striated, slightly hairy ; leaves lanceo- 

 late, smooth, distantly toothed; clusters panicled, unilateral, rather hairy, 

 the lower ones axillary ; bracts lanceolate, smooth. Smith. — Scopoli, del. 

 insubr. 2. p. 19, t. 10 ; Smith, in Rees, cycl. no. 23. S. Clelia3, DC. j^rodr. 

 5. p. 331. 



Cultivated in the Italian gardens, (collected by Smith in the garden at 

 Pavia, in 1787; and by De Candolle in that of Clel. Grimaldi near Genoa, 

 in 1808,) and supposed to be of North American origin. According to Smith, 

 Dryander " considered it as coming nearest to S. elliptica; but its leaves are 

 narrower, and its bracfeas much less. Most of the clusters are axillary, com- 

 posing a leafy panicle, and about as long as their corresponding leaves. 



