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pedicels of the more or less glomerate heads scaberulous; in- 
volucres broad, rather campanulate than turbinate, their well — 
imbricated bracts slightly green-tipped, all very obtuse, dis- 
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tinctly 1-nerved. 
This is a plant of the sandy soils near the seaboard, or evan 
the sandy seashore, which I trace in the herbaria from Maine to 
Maryland, though in no great number of specimens. It is from — 
this alone that Pursh must have drawn his character of obso- _ 
letely 3-nerved leaves; the other plants of his S. tenuifolia, from — 
the south, having much narrower leaves, showing never a trace 
of lateral nerves. 
E. remota. Much like the last in aspect, but larger, some- — 
times 2 feet high, the narrowly linear leaves of decidedly firmer 
texture and not blackening when dry, ascending rather than 
spreading, never deflected: stem fastigiately branched above the 
middle, the outer branches about as long as the others but com- — 
monly sterile, the others only rather sparsely floriferous, the — 
heads not glomerate: involucres broadly turbinate, not notably i 
imbricated, only the short outer bracts green-tipped: rays un- — 
commonly conspicuous for the genus. 
_ Plant of the rolling prairie country about Lake Michigan, — 
not rare from northern Indiana to southern Wisconsin, where ib 
has always passed for Solidago tennifolia, Pursh, though abun- 
dantly distinct from all the eastern and southern members of 
that aggregate. 
E. MINOR. Solidago lanceolata, var. minor, Michx. Fl. ii. 116. 
S. tenuifolia, Pursh, l. c. in part. Often 2 feet high, slender, — 
corymbosely parted at about the middle into very slender more 5 
or less fastigiate branches all copiously both leafy-bracted and : 
floriferous: leaves 2 or 3 inches long, ascending, very narrowly 2 
linear, pungently acute, 1-nerved, strongly punctate, glabrous 3 
throughout, scarcely even the margin scaberulous: heads very 
numerous but not crowded, each one short-pedicellate; bracts ‘ 
of the involucre green- ipped and acutish: rays many and a 
rather conspicuous, light-yellew. 
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