160 COMPOSITJE. Solidago. 



narrowed base: cyme fastigiate: heads pedicellate, small (3 lines long), narrow, 16-24- 

 flowered : bracts of the involucre narrower: rays 6 to 9, small: akenes slightly 5-nerved. — 

 Synop. 57; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. — Low prairies or meadows, W. New York to Ohio and 

 Indiana; first coll. by Ridddl. 



■i— -^ Leaves somewhat condiiplicate ; lower slightlj' triplinerved. 



S. Riddellii, Frank. Glabrous and smooth, or the inflorescence puberulent : stem a foot 

 or two high, very leafy: leaves elongated-lanceolate, entire; radical 8 to 12 inches long, 

 attenuate at both ends ; cauline rather long, erect at the base which nearly sheathes the 

 stem, partly conduplicate above, and the upper part falcately arcuate : heads densely cymose, 

 3 or 4 lines long, 20-30-flowered : rays 7 to 9, small and narrow : akenes faintly 5-nerved. — 

 Riddell, Synops. 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 210. 6'. <im])lexicaulis. Martens in Bull. Acad. 

 Brux. viii. (1841) 68. — Wet prairies, Ohio (first coll. hy Riddell) to Iowa and Missouri. 

 (Also Fort Monroe, Virginia, Vasey and Chkkering, these adventive ^) 



S. Houghtoni, Torr. & Gray. Stem slender, 10 to 20 inches high: leaves indistinctly 

 nerved, rather rigid, scattered (3 or 4 inches long, 2 to 4 lines wide) : heads ratiier few in a 

 corymbiform cyme, 20-30-flowered: rays 7 to 10, rather large: bracts of the involucre 

 oblong-linear: akenes 4-5-uerved. — Gray, Man. ed. 1, 211, ed. 5, 242. — Swamps, north 

 shore of L. Michigan, Houghton. Genessee Co., New York, Paine. Flowering early. 



-4— -I 1— Leaves flat, smootb, and glabrous, linear or linear-lanceolate, entire, more or less tripli- 



nerved or 3-nerved, or nervose : heads only 3 or 4 lines long. 



S. nitida, Torr. & Gray. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, very smooth except the summit and inflo- 

 rescence, whicli are minutely hirsute : leaves coriaceous and rigid, evidently nervose, punc- 

 tate (the larger 4 to 6 inches long, 3 to 5 lines wide) : heads numerous in the corymbiform 

 cyme, about 14-flowei-ed : rays 2 or 3, large : bracts of the involucre narrowly oulong : akenes 

 10-nerved. — Fl. ii. 210. — Dry pine woods and barrens, W. Louisiana and Texas; first coll. 

 by Druiinnond and Leacenworth. 



S. pumila, Torr. & Gray. Dwarf, a span or moi-e high, many-stemmed from a woody 

 branching and cespitose caudex, glabrous throughout, punctate, somewhat resinous : leaves 

 rigid, 3-nerved, acute; radical 2 or 3 inches long: cyme glomerate-fastigiate : heads nar- 

 rowly oblong, 5-8-flowered : rays 1 to 3, short : involucral bracts rigid, somewhat carinato, 

 and with small green (sometimes mucronulate) tips: mature akenes flattish and unusually 

 broad, rather longer than the rigid pappus : akenes 5-nerved. — Fl. ii. 210. Chrysoma pumila, 

 Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 325. — Rocky dry places, N. W. Texas to S. W. Utah, 

 Nevada, and Idalio, mostly in the mountains ; first coll. by Nutlall. 



§ 2. EutH((mia, Nutt. Receptacle of the flowers fimbrillate or the alveoli 

 pilose : rays very small, almost always more numerous than the disk-flowers and 

 never surpassing them in heiglit : heads glomerately and fasciculately cymose, 

 small : leaves very numerous, all linear, entire, 1-5-nerved, somewhat punctate, 

 sessile : akenes villous-pubescent, short and turbinate : filiform rootstocks exten- 

 sively creeping. — Euthamia, Cass. Diet, xxxvii. 471; Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. 



Soc., 1. c. 



* Taller and paniculately branched Pacific species. 



S. OCCidentalis, Nutt. Stems 2 to 6 feet higli ; the branches terminated by small clus- 

 ters of mostly pedicellate heads: leaves usually 3-nerved, glabrous and smooth even on the 

 midrib, and margins ol)scurely scabrous: bracts of the involucre rather narrow: rays 16 to 

 20: di.sk-flowers 8 to 14. — Torr. & Gray, Fh ii. 226; Eaton in Bot. King Exp. 156. 5. lan- 

 ceolnta, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn. vi. 502 ; Hook. Fl. ii. 6, partly. Euthamia occidentalis, 

 Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. vii. 326. Aplopappus bacchnroides, Benth. Bot. 

 Sulph. 24. — Moist ground, British Columbia to S. California, extending eastward to New 

 Mexico, Colorado, and Montana. — Long rootstocks tuberous-thickened at the extremity. 



* * Comparatively low, a foot or at most a yard high, cvmosely much branched above and flat- 

 topped : heads mostly glomei-ate-sessile : Atlantic species. 



S. lanceolata, L. Leaves lanceolate-linear, distinctly 3-nerved and the larger with an 

 additional outer pair of more delicate nerves, minutely scabrous-pubescent on the nerves 



