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alpine forms, well-nigh prostrate upon the ground; some 

 are slender-stemmed, some have stout woody support; some 

 bear big branching panicles of abundant bloom, while others 

 again have but few blossoms closely clustered about their 

 erect stalks. Yet in spite of all these differences between 

 the various species, the Golden-rods are quite unmis- 

 takable as a genus. 



Solidago elongata, or Slender Golden-rod, has smooth 

 slender stems and lanceolate leaves pointed at both ends and 

 sparingly toothed. The flowers grow in an elongated nar- 

 rowly pyramidal cluster, and the bracts of the involucre are 

 linear, the yellow rays being small and slender. The 

 achenes are pubescent. 



YELLOW FLEABANE 



Erigeron aureus. Composite Family 



Stems: from a tufted caudex, cinereous-pubescent, the involucre lanu- 

 ginose-tomentose. Leaves: radical ones obovate or spatulate, contracted 

 into a slender petiole; cauline ones few, sparse, small. Flowers: in 

 heads of radiate and disk-flowers ; rays eight to twelve, ligulate, pistillate, 

 oblong; disk corollas perfect, dilated towards the summit, deeply five- 

 toothed. Fruit: achenes oblong-turbinate, densely silky villous. 



This is a dwarf herbaceous plant, with a tuft of tiny 

 green leaves at the base and one or two minute ones chnging 

 to its stems. It grows only from three to six inches high, 

 and is found on lofty summits at 8000 and 9000 feet. 

 The flowers resemble bright yellow daisies, and are rather 

 ragged looking. At tim.es, as the traveller stands upon 

 some mountain top, where the earth seems very close to the 

 sky of perfect blue, the gamboge blossoms of the Yellow 

 Fleabane, covering the ground with a torrent of bloom, 

 seem to surge across the alpine plateaux in a succession of 

 golden waves. 



