PLATE LIV. 



1. SOLIDAGO STRICTA. 



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WILLOW-LEAVED GOLDEN ROD. 



This g(;iius coiilains plaiils of the tall, herbaceous, flowering, 

 perennial kind. 



It belongs lo ihe class and order Sjjngenesia Polygamia Siiperjiuu, 

 and ranks in llie natural order of Compositce Discoidea. 



The characters are: that the calyx is oblong, imbricate, common : 

 scales oblong, narrow, acuminate, straight, converging: the corolla 

 is compound radiate : corollets hermaphrodite tubular, very many, 

 in the disk: — female ligulate, fewer than ten, (commonly five) in the 

 ray : ijroper of the hernuiphrodite funnel-form, with a five-cl(;ft, patu- 

 lous border:— female ligulate, lanceolate, ihree-toothed: the stamma 

 in the herniaphrodites: iilaments five, capillary, very short: anthers 

 cylindrical, tubular: the pistillum in the hermaphrodites: germ ob- 

 long: style filiform, length of the stamens: stigma bifid, sj)reading:— 

 in the females: germ oblong: style filiform, length of the hermaphro- 

 dite: stigmas two, revolute: there is no pericarpium: calyx scarcely 

 changed: the seeds in the h(rinai)hrodites solitary, obovate-oblong-. 

 seed-down capillary: in the females very like the others: the re- 

 ceptacle tiallish, naked. 



'J'he species cultivated are: 1. S. Kirgaurea, Common Golden-rod ; 

 2. S. Canadensis, Canadian Ciolden-rod ; 3. .S. altissima. Tall Golden- 

 rod ; 4. S. Mixkana, Mexican Golden-rod ; 5. S. viminea. Twiggy 

 Golden-rod ; G. 6'. hicohr. Two-coloured Golden-rod ; ?• S. rigidu. 

 Hard leaved Golden-rod ; 8. 5. casia, Maryland Golden-rod ; 9- S. 

 /exica«/<s, Crooked-stalked Golden-rod; 10. ,S'. scnipervirens, Narrow- 

 leaved Evergreen Golden-rod. 



