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Ait., which appears to have been early cultivated in European botanic 

 gardens. 



The conclusion formerly reached is to be adhered to, namely, that 

 of the three antecedent names, S. ccesia, Jlexicaulis, and latifolia, 

 the first and the last are to be maintained, and the S. jiexicauUs 

 dropped; the plant of the herbarium under this name being only 

 S. ccEsia, the character and synonymy belonging to S, latifolia, 

 while the sole synonym (of Plukeuet) under latifolia goes to S. 

 elliptica of Alton. 



S. viRGAUREA. The Linna;an specimens are wholly of the Euro- 

 pean plant. 



S. RiGiDA. An unmistakable species ; the name suggested by 

 Herm. Farad. Bat., whose figure is cited. 



S. NovKi$oiiACEXSis. Single specimen, its source not recorded. 

 It has long been a puzzle, but it is certainly no Solidago, almost cer- 

 tainly not from America, and pretty clearly the Aster Tartaricus, 

 Linn. f. 



II. Of Alton, Ilortus Keicensis, 1789, preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. 



This is the next authority on the genus, except the edition of 

 Miller's Dictionary cited in the work, in which specific names are 

 given in a tentative way, within brackets. As is well known, the 

 whole editorship was by Solander ; but his name not appearing, the 

 work is necessarily cited as that of the elder Alton, whose name only 

 is on the titlepage. Accordingly, to the latter the species of Solid- 

 ago, Aster, &c., published in the Hortus Kewensis have always been 

 attributed. 



S. Canadensis, L. Various forms of the Linnnean species, 



S. PROCERA. Two specimens on one sheet, " Hort. Kew. 1778," 

 the date which is borne by very many of the specimens in the her- 

 barium. They are of S. Canadensis, var. inocera, Torr. and Gray, Fl., 

 which has larger heads than the type, very commonly in ascending 

 dense racemiform clusters, as expressed in Solander's phrase '• racemis 

 spiciformibus erectis, inuptis nutantibus ; " but he notes in his manu- 

 script, '• an racemi semper erecti ? " The pubescence of the stem and 

 leaves is hardly "villous," but rather puberulous. 



S, SEROTiNA, Not really the plant of Torr. and Gray, Fl., but 

 their S. gigantea, that is, the completely glabrous form, the S. glabra, 

 Desf. &c. 



