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bottom: the branches terminated by short, cluslerocl, erect spikes: 

 the leaves on the stem anil branches very narrow, acute-pointed and 

 entire. The M'elch Cj olden-rod, which has the lower leaves narrow- 

 lanceolate, an inch and half Ion--, und a (luarlcr ol' an inch broad, 

 smooth, slitihtly serrate, a liUle hoary on the under side : the stalk 

 about six inches high, wilh the same sort ol"le;ivcs on il, only smaller: 

 the tiowers in roundish clustered lerniinating spikes, much larger 

 than those of the common sort, and appearing five or six weeks ear- 

 lier in the season. 



The second species has the stalks round, smooth, and two leet 

 high ; the leaves narrow and rough, with three longitudinal veins, 

 tw^I) inches and a half long, and a (]uarlcM- of an inch broad in the 

 middle, sessile, ending in acute points, and having sometimes a few 

 slicvht serratures: the flowers in a roundish terminating panicle, 

 the lower spikes of wliich are ivflexed, but those at the top erect 

 and joined very close. These appear in July. It is a native of 



Canada. 



The third has the stems numerous, straight, rigid, Iroin three to 

 four feet and a lialf high, the thickness of a straw or more at the 

 base, round, slightly streaked, hirsute, clothed from lop to bottom 

 at short distances with leaves, which are widish, obloiig, pointed, 

 rouuh, at their upper and lower parts thinly crenate, in the middle 

 senate, the serratures minutely crenale; those on the upper branches 

 not serrate, but only minutely crenaK^ : they are green on bolh 

 sides, with a I'ew oblique vt ins, and are hairy along the nervi- and 

 veins' at the back, but without hairs every where else: the flowers 

 very manv, on the upper branches, in long rod-like spikes, some- 

 what reflJxed, having four, fiv(>, or six florets in the ray: they appi-ar 

 in August and Sei)tember. It is a native of New England, Virginiii, 



and Carolina. 



There are several varieties; as the Tallest Golden-rod- the 

 Hairy Golden-rod— the Recurved Golden-rod— the Virginia Golden- 

 rod- 



The fourth species has oblique stalks, a fool and half high, smooth, 



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