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S. JUNCEA. The true original of this species, as the Solaiuler 

 manuscript shows, is a small and perfectly characteristic specimen, 

 ticketed " Hudson's Bay, Hutchinson." The specific name was mani- 

 festly suggested by the slender and naked racemiform fiower-chisters 

 of small heads. It is the S. arguta, yar.Juncea, of Torr. and Gray's 

 Flora, the larger and broad-leaved form of which was wrongly taken 

 up as *S'. arguta. The other sheet, of cultivated specimens, one, if not 

 both, from Kew Gardens, may be of the same species, or may be 

 S. neglecta, Torr, and Gray, with unusually spreading inflorescence. 



S. ELLiPTiCA. Two sheets ; each with a single specimen. One 

 is of Hort. Kew. 1778, is tlie upper part of a large plant, with '• ra- 

 cemis paniculatis secundis," and is more like the Solidago referred to 

 this species in Torr. and Gray's Flora, now viewed as a large 

 form of S. ElUottii, found near the sea-coast of southern New Eng- 

 land and New York, the leaves only inconspicuously serrate. The 

 other, brought from "Hort. Rtg. Parisiensis" by Houston, is the 

 plant there cultivated of old under the name of S. latifolia or lateri- 

 flora, the ^S*. latlssimifolia of Miller, as Solander indicates, and prob- 

 ably Plukenet's t. 235, f. 4. It appears to be the species still under 

 cultivation in Europe, with flower-clusters abbreviated and mainly in 

 the axils of comparatively ample leaves, so as to resemble long- 

 cultivated *S. latifolia, L. It will take the name of *S'. elliptica, var. 

 axillijiora. No indigenous specimens known. 



S. SEMPERviRENS, L. Three specimens on two sheets, an indige- 

 nous one from Dr. Mitchell, and cultivated ones from Miller and from 

 Kew ; all narrow-leaved forms of the Linneean species. 



S. ODORA. Three sheets : one with an indigenous specimen, 

 "Cherokee Country, W. V. Turner, 1769," with an aboriginal name 

 recorded, and is the true plant; so is the original of Plukenet's t. 116, 

 f. 6, preserved among the Plukenet plants at the British Museum. The 

 other specimens are from Kew and from Miller, the latter not clearly 

 of this species ; and two large leaves affixed to the sheet belong to 

 something quite different, probably to Erechthites Jiieracif alius. 



S. LAXCEOLATA, L. One of the sheets contains a specimen of S. 

 tenuifolia, indicated as a variety. 



S. LAEVIGATA. Same as S. sempervirens, L., a form with lanceo- 

 late and acute leaves. 



S. Mexicana, L. The Linna^an plant, from Kew Gardens and 

 from Paris. Clayton's plant is a form with narrower and acute upper 

 leaves, nearly the S. laevigata, Ait. 



