Solidago. COMPOSITE. 151 



or linear-lanceolate, acute, sprrcatliTig (1|- to 4 inches long, half-inch or much less in width) : 

 rays rather small. (A form, var. iiiodura, Gray, Man., growing witli the ordiuary plant, is 

 scentless.) — Ait. Kew. iii. 214 (Pluk. Aim. t. 116,f. 6, & 236, f. 1) ; Pursh, FL ii. 539 ; Bigel. 

 Med. Bot. i. 188, t. 20; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 219. 5. retrorsa, Michx. FL ii. 117. S. jmnc- 

 ticiddta, DC. Prodr. v. 332. — Dry or sandy soil, Canada to Florida and Texas, chiefly near 

 the coast, but as far interior as Kentucky. (Mex.) 

 S. Chapmani, Gray. Eather stouter and more rigid : stem roughish-puberulent above :. 

 leaves oblong or elliptical, obtuse or even rounded at the apex, about an inch long ; those 

 next the broad expanding thyrsus very small, often roundish. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvi. 80, 

 xvii. 193. <S. odora, Chapm. Fl. 213, in part. — Pine barrens of Florida, Chapman, Garher, 

 Cwtiss, distributed as »S. torlifoUa. Between S. odora and S. pilosa. 

 = = Lower leaves more or less serrulate and all scabrous or pubescent, not punctate, more 



evidently veiny than the preceding, spreadinjj: stem very leafy : rays small, hardly surpassing 



the disk-flowers. 



S. tortifolia, Ell. Stem slender, 2 or 3 feet high, seabrous-puberulent : leaves all linear 

 (an incli or two long, Ij to 3 lines wide), acutish, commonly twisted, especially in age, hir- 

 tello-puberulent or glabrate, the lower with a few sharp denticulations : heads small, few- 

 flowered.— Sk. ii. 377; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 97; Torr. & Gray, FL ii. 220. S. odora, 

 Michx. FL ii. 118, not Ait. *S'. retrorsa, Pursh, Fl. ii. 539; Nutt. Gen. ii. 159, not Michx. — 

 Dry sandy soil, coast of Virginia to Florida and Texas. 



S. pilosa, Walt. Stem stouter, 3 to 7 feet high, hirsute with .short spreading hairs : leaves 

 lanceolate-oblong (2 or 3 inches long), or the upper elliptical or oblong (8 to 18 lines long), 

 these mostly obtuse, the midrib beneath and margins scabrous- or liirsute-ciliate ; the lower 

 with some acute small teeth: rays several or few and trifid, very small. — Car. 207 (not 

 Mill. Diet.) ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 219. S.Jiahdosa, Mill. Diet. i>. altissima, Michx. 1. c, ex 

 herb. S. pj/ramidata, Pursh, Fl. ii. .537; Nutt. Gen. ii. 118. S. villosa, EIL 8k. ii. 372; 

 DC. Prodr. v. 333. — Moist ground, New Jersey (pine barrens) to Florida and Louisiana, in 

 the low country : flowering late. 



++++++ -H- Leaves not small for the size of the plant, not prominently veiny, of firm texture, 

 entire or little serrate, glabrous and smootli, but sometimes with ciliolate-scabrous margins: 

 heads (middle-sized) crowded in thyrsoid inflorescence, not secund. < 



== Pacific species: rays rather numerous (8 to 15) and small: akenes pubescent. 



S. Tolmieana. Low, a foot or less high, leafy up to the short and rather broad inflores- 

 cence of spiciform somewhat corymbosely disposed clusters : leaves tliickish and veins very 

 inconspicuous, linear or lanceolate (2 or 3 inches long), entire, rarely witli some minute ser- 

 ratures, the margins usually scabrous-ciliolate : heads about 3 lines high : involucral bracts 

 lanceolate, acutish, thin. (Has been taken for a form of S. Missouriensis, var. montana.) — 

 Idaho, Washington Territory and Oregon ; first coll. by Tolmie, then by Spalding and later 

 collectors. 



S. Guiradonis, Gray. Slender, 2 feet high, bearing rather few heads in a simple virgate 

 thyrsus : leaves all quite entire, thickish, bright green, attenuately cuspidate-acuminate ; 

 radical and lower cauline linear-lanceolate (2 to 4 lines wide, about 4 inches long) ; upper 

 more attenuate: bracts of the involucre small, lanceolate or linear, acutish. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vi. 543, & Bot. Calif., in part. — California, along brooks, base of San Carlos Peak, 

 Fresno Co., Guirado, an assistant of Prof. Brewer. 



S. spectabilis, Gray. A foot or two high : heads numerous and crowded in a narrow or 

 comjjound and broader thyrsus : leaves paler, sometimes thinner ; cauline lanceolate, or the 

 small uppermost becoming linear, acute ; lower and radical spatulate-lanceolate or oblong, 

 acutish or obtuse, often au inch wide and obscurely triple-ribbed ; radical rarely with a few 

 serratures ; involucral bracts lanceolate or broader, mostly obtuse. — l^roc. Am. Acad, 

 xvii. 193. — .S'. Guiradonis, y&v. spectahills, Eaton, Bot. King Exp. 154. S. Guiradonis, in 

 part. Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 319 ; Rothrock in Wheeler Rep., &c. — From the western slopes of 

 the Sierra Nevada, California, to the interior mountains of Nevada, Bloomer, Watson, &c. 



== = Atlantic species: akenes glabrous or sometimes slightly and sparsely pubescent: rays con- 

 spicuous, 5 or 6. 



S. uliginosa, Nutt. Stem 2 or 3 feet liigh, strict : leaves lanceolate and oblong-lanceolate, 

 mostly acute or acuminate, acutely and sparsely serrulate or else entire ; radical and lower 



