

tomous ; leaves petiolate, elliptical lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, yellowish j;ln.. 

 «• nsbenea'h j cyme erect, pedunculate, axillary o die las' •. ; cho:o'i i s and iimch 

 Bhor*cr, naked and trichotontcnib. — A shru!> four to five fee* high, growing on, 

 the banks of the Ketitnckv river. I described it in the Western lie view, vol. 1 

 p 229. The C albida of F.rhart which is a distinct species, differs from it by 

 lanceolate leaves, not obliqual, dimidiate peti Is. cyms terminal, &c. and the C. 

 polygama of Fl- Luelovicianahy sessile leaves, fruit black, he. 



102 Hmutoma ropestiis. Smooth ; stems fruticulos-c, a'surgent and genicu- 

 late ; leaves king linear, attenuate and acute at both ends; flowers corymbose 

 paniculate j pedoiicles short, unequal •, divisions of tho corolla lanceolate acute, 

 style exert, capsule elongate — A small shrub, a foot high, growing on the cbfls 

 of the Kentucky river, and blossoming in August. It is very different from H 

 teinrifaha of Nuttall which is not fniteacent 



103 Jlparint ("Outturn L.J risriiU flora. 9t< m erect ; leaves qualerna'c, stmi- 

 peti late, ovate-lanceolate, nearb obtuse trinene, margin and nerves ciiiate ; 

 flower-.il' divaricate, lateral, loose and trichotomous panicles; hracteas opposite 

 lanci nlate ; peduncles long and slender ; corolla vise!'', divisions ovale mucro. 

 nat*. fruit smooth.— A pretty species with dark purph flowers; it grows in "lie 

 A lie t/I. any mountains c>f Maryland, &C blossoming in June. Siem a foot hi?n ; 

 Pen nival ; he finnear name of r.W»?nii being ; early the same as .llHxim, the 

 formt r and bctti r name of Tonrnefort ought to b- employed instea , 



104 f'acahr pavievhitu 'Stem grooved ; leaves petii-'a'- , rl.< n uie'al, ;icite 

 at both ends: base entire, remainder unequally sinuate; tec-lb birge acute: flow. 

 ers paniculate ; neiluneles divaricate, with seme small scaly hracteoles : tierian- 

 tbe five leaved, five flowered : plulles lanceo'ate. carinate. — It grows in the knob 

 lli'!s of Kentucky, blossoming i' Angus! j fl-WPr* white. 



105 Vaca&a pteravthrr, S'crr grooved am' co< led ; leaves petiolate ovr'e 

 or lanceolate, acute tHrk lae-.niate ; flowers r-'ninlm-e, paniculate ; peduncles 

 elongate: perianths five leaved, five flowered ; i>''vlles oblong, with an undula- 

 ted wing on the back — It grows in the harrfi* ••(' Indiana and Illinois. Flowers 

 wl 'te : it has much affinity with the foretyoii g 



1(6. Solidago Bphacelata. Sten striated, pubesret above; leaves petiolate, ,A 



Ovpte acute, mucronate, serrated in 'be middle, rough re the edges and beneath, 

 infi -io.r ones snberdate ; flowers sessile, lateral spikes loose, denseflowered and 

 slier'. Ihi lowei ones rt curved, reflexed. the terminal o»e eveet ; foiioles of the 

 periantlie oblong obtuse, brown or sphacelate at the < nd, adpressed, Hgtiles "b- 

 tt ( hard'* longer. — li growson the hills of Kentucky and Virginia, vising le:.3 

 than two feet; leaves small. abo»t an inch long; ; flowers of a dirty brownish 

 yellm , hi ss'iming in August P rennial. 



1"~ Solidago rnj/ertru. Sten- straight, slender, striated, pubescent above; 

 leav-s crowded, broad, linear, sessile, very acute, vi*h faint rem 'e set-raUii-os, 

 except at (be end, smooth and trinervate ; flowers lateral, .ascending, peduncula- 

 ted ; racemes crowded, paniculated elongate, flexnose, bracteate. divaricate, the 

 terminal e>ne reflexed ; bracteoles < ubulate ; fo'ioles of the nerianthe loose, subu- 

 late, aente ; Hgules elongate, narrow, linear. — A fine species, growing on the 

 cliff* of the Kentucky river, and blossoming in August; flowers bright vellow ; 

 leaves slender, breadth only one-tentli of the length, 'stem two feet high. It 

 ■me affinity with S o/lara but is not frngrwt I bad wrongly called it S j>ai- 

 ninsomi specimens sent to sevi r I botanists. Perennial. 

 108. H litivthus hirsuivs. Hirsute; 'eaves sin rt'y ]eie>late; lanceolate very 

 acute. '-emote, serrate pale beneath, s nu what trinervate s flowers terminal, soli. 

 larv, r.i arly sessile ; foiioles «f the perianthe adpressed, ovate, acute, ciiiate. stria- 

 led, brownish —I found it on the knob hills of Kentucky, blossoming in August-- 

 a two or three feet high, simple, covered with stiff grey hrirs very much 

 led, 'hose of the leaves are mote remote. Perennial 

 N II X (. PsniMiavs. Periantlie 12-16 partite on a single row , foiioles al- 

 •< r. :.u I) lot ger and shorter ; eight sterile rays without ovary. Phnranthe eop. 

 ileal l Florets with a triangular ovarv without teeth, tobulose cam- 

 ■ i Seeds triangular, naked, smooth — Tliis is another of .the numerous 

 khayiiigaffi ities with Rvdbnekia, liatibida. Tstmrhv* anel Coreopsis, fiom 

 wh'ch ' .-I'd is bv do- naked seed, Efe and from OMiti ra by the simple periatv 

 •untVe and triangular seeds ■":■• Co*'opitanciita.P. Cor scabra 

 1 |l|n •'• l ' ' ' tin rotea an 3 nurfata X mall w " belong cither to this ge- 

 nus or to OfaNneca. The name means alternating around. 



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