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bottom: the branches terminated by short, clustered, erect spikes: 

 the leaves on the stem and branches very narrow, acute-pointed and 

 entire. The Welch Golden-rod, which has the lower leaves narrow- 

 lanceolate, an inch and 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, with 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 ear- 

 lier 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 serratures : the flowers in a roundish terminating panicle, 

 the lower spikes of which are reflexed, 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 high, 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 crcnate, in the middle 

 serrate, the serratures minutely crenate; those on the upper branches 

 not serrate, but only minutely crenale ; they are green on bolh 

 sides, with a few oblique veins, and are 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, some- 

 what reflexed, having four, five, or six florets in the ray: they appear 

 in August and September. It is a native of New England, Virginia, 

 and Carolina. 



There are several varieties; as the Tallest Golden- rod the 

 Hairy Golden-rod the Recurved Golden-rod the Virginia Golden- 

 rod. 



The fourth species has oblique stalks, a foot and half high, smooth, 



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