138 PITTONIA. 
GERARDIA GALVESIANA. Annual, stoutish, rather strict- — 
paniculate, more than a foot high; stem and branches 
minutely scaberulous: leaves thick and somewhat fleshy, an 
inch long, oblong-linear, mucronately acute, tapering at base 
to a short petiole, glabrous beneath, above densely scabrous 
with sharp somewhat appressed strongly pustulate hairs, 
some short ones fascicled in the axils of the lower; flowers 
opposite or alternate, on pedicels shorter than the calyx, 
this marked with obscure somewhat scabrous angles, other- 
wise glabrous, the teeth triangular, acute: corolla rose-purple, 
ample, an inch long or more, and nearly as broad, all the 
lobes expanded. 
Galveston Island, 24 Sept., 1901. 
SoLIDAGO VENULOsA. Radical leaves not seen; flowering 
stems 1 to 2 feet high, naked below at time of flowering, 
densely leafy above the middle, the whole stem dark dall 
red: leaves 2 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, subsessile, 
entire, acute, glabrous except as to the serrulate-scabrous 
margin, subcoriaceous, minutely yet conspicuously reticulate 
venulose: inflorescence subracemose in small plants, pyra- 
midal-thyrsiform in the larger: pedicels scaberulous; in- 
volucral bracts yellow, thinnish, glabrous, in few series, all 
obtuse: rays quite showy, golden-yellow. 
On dry hills near Weatherford, central Texas, October, 
1902. One of several far-western and southwestern golden- 
rods that may have been referred to the eastern S. speciosa. 
SoLIDAGO LÆTA. Akin to S. radula, taller, foliage thinner, 
the whole herbage of a vivid lightish green: lowest leaves 
not seen, the lower part the green striate almost glabrous 
stem naked at flowering; those present varying from- 
broadly elliptic-lanceolate and serrate in the lower, to ovate 
entire in the upper, all minutely roughened with scattered 
