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late, fewer than ten, (commonly five) in the 

 ray: proper of ihc hermaphrodite funnel-form, 

 \\ nh a tive-clcft, patulous border : — female ii<ru- 

 latc, lanceolate, three-toothed : the stamina in 

 the hermaphrodites : filaments live, capillary, 

 verv short: anthers cylindrical, tubular: the 

 pisti him in the hermaphrodites : germ oblong : 

 ie filiform, length of the stamens : sti.nna 

 bifid, spreading: — in the teniae-- ecrin obkxig: 

 style li.ifonn, length of the hermaphrodite : 

 stigmas two. revouite : there is no pericarpium : 

 calvx scarcely chanced: the seeds in the herma- 

 phrodites solitary, ohovatc-ob'ong: seed-down 

 ca; iilarv : — in the females very like the others : 

 the receptacle fiattish, naked. 



The species cultivated are: 1. 5. f'irgm/rea, 

 Common Golden-rod; 8. S. fill mttii m i'i . Cana- 

 dian Golden-rod ; 3. S. alliss'ima, Tall Golden- 

 rod ; 4. S. AltTiaina, Mexican Golden-rod ; 

 5. S. i iminra, Twigey Golden-nod ; 6. .S. lico- 

 Inr, Two-coloured Golden-rod ; 7 • S. rigida, 

 Hard-leaved Golden-rod; 8. S.ccesia, Maryland 

 Golden-rod ; 9. 8.Jiexiantlis, Crooked-stalked 

 Golden-rod; 10. S.semptriircin, Narrow-leaved 

 Evergreen Golden-rod. 



The first has a perennial Toot, of long simple 

 fibres : the stem very various in height, from 

 ten inches to three feet, commonly branching 

 into a panicle, more or less fiexuose, never en- 

 tirely stiff and straight, leafy, angular, striated, 

 a little downy ; at the base round and often 

 purple : the leaves elliptic-lanceolate, somewhat 

 nigged, and stiffish ; those next the root wider, 

 on longer petioles, and more widely serrate; 

 stem-leaves for the most part indistinctly cre- 

 nate-serrate, sometimes almost quite entire, 

 varying in size, often recurved ; the upper ones 

 gradually diminishing into lanceolate downy 

 bractes : all somewhat hairy, or covered with 

 fhort stiff down, paler underneath; footstalks 

 winged : the (lowers in terminating and axillary 

 I clusters or corymbs, forming a dense leafy 

 pubescent panicle, which varies extremely as to 

 luxuriance and number of flowers; in a barren 

 soil and on mountains being shorter, more dense 

 ^nd less compound. They are of a golden colour. 

 It is a native of Europe, Siberia, and Japan, flow- 

 ering from Julv to September. It has sometimes 

 ti;<- names of Wound-wort and Aaron's rod. 



There are several varieties; as the purple- 

 stalked broad-leaved, which has the stalks stiff", 

 purplish brown, two feet high : the panicles 

 axillary and terminating; each Bower on a long 

 slender footstalk, pale yellow, appearing at the 

 beginning of August : the leaves lanceolate, 

 almost lour inches lone, and a quarter of an inch 

 broad, deeply serrate, pale green beneath. 



The Common Golden-rod, w Inch has the lower 

 leave' ovate-Janceolale, two inches long and an 

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inch broad, slightly serrate, on arett) long foot- 

 stalk*: the stems slender, a loot and halt high; 

 with small, narrow, entire, sessile leaves : the 

 flowers in panicfed bunches, clustered 

 forming a thick erect spike, appearing ni \-.- 

 gus' and September. The narrow -leaved, winch 



h:i ? ;hc stalk round, smooth, a foot and half 

 high : the leaves narrow-lanceolate, an inch and 

 Quarter long, and an eighth of an inch broad, 

 almost entire, sessile: the flowers in small 

 clustered hunches from the axils, to which they 

 sit very close; and the stalk is terminated by a 

 roundish bunch. The Dwarf Golden-rod. which 

 has the lower leaves indented : the stalk s 

 more than a foot high, branching out almost 

 from the bottom : the branches terminated hv 

 short, clustered, erect spikes: the leaves on 1 lie 

 stem and branches eery narrow, acute-pointed 

 and entire. The Welch Golden-rod, which has 

 the lower leaves narrow -lanceolate, an inch an d 

 half long, and a quarter of an inch broad, 

 smooth, slightly serrate, a little hoary on the 

 under side : the stalk about six inches high, w iih 

 the same sort of leaves on it, only smaller : the 

 flowers in roundish clustered terminating spikes, 

 much larger than those of the common sort, and 

 appearing five or six weeks earlier in the season. 



The second species has the stalks round, 

 smooth, and two feet high ; the leaves narrow 

 and rough, with three longitudinal veins, two 

 inches and a half long, and a quarter of an inch 

 broad in the middle, sessile, ending in acute 

 points, and having sometimes a few- slight scr- 

 ratures : the flowers in a roundish terminating 

 panicle, the lower spikes of which are reflcxed, 

 but those at the top erect and joined very close. 

 These appear in July. It is a native of Canada. 



The third has the stems numerous, straight, 

 rigid, from three to four feet and a half ln»b, 

 the thickness of a straw or more at the base, 

 round, slightly streaked, hirsute, clothed from 

 top to bottom at short distances with leaves, 

 which are widish, oblong, pointed, rough, at 

 their upper and lower parts thinly crenate, in 

 the middle s< rratc, the serraturcs minutely cre- 

 nate; those on the upper branches not serrate, 

 hut onlv minutely crenate ; they arc green on 

 both sides, with a few oblique veins, "and arc 

 hairy along the nerve and veins at the back, but 

 without hairs every where else: the flowers very 

 many, on the upper branches, in long rod-like 

 spikes, somewhat reflcxed, having four, fn . 

 sjx florets in the ra\ : they appear in Angus: ,-i i 

 September. It i< a native of New England. 

 Virginia, and Carolina. 



There are several varieties ; as '.lie TaHest 

 Golden-rod — the Ilair\ GolJcn-rod — thi 

 curved Golden-rod — the Virginia Golden-rod. 



The fourth species ha- oblique stalks, a foot 

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