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- flowers 8-9 as long as the rays; branches of the style linear-subulate, the 
hirsute appendages much longer than the stigmatic portion. llains of 
the higher: mountains, Washington to Nevada, Idaho and Utah. 
C. Bloomeri Greene Eryth, iii, 115  Ap/opapyws Boomeri Grry. A 
shrub 1-2 feet high with numerous slender virgate branches, glabrous, 
more or less glutinous, leafy to the top: leaves narrowly linear with taper- 
ing base, cr spatulate-linear, mucronate, scarcely punctate, 1-2 inches 
long: heads narrowly panicled or corymbed, leafy-bracted, 8-10 lines 
high 10-25-flowered: bracts of the oblong cylindraceous nvolucre imbri- 
cated in 3 or4 ranks, chartaceo-coriaceous ith a greenish midrib and 
scarious margins, the inner linear-oblong, thinner and _ villous-ciliate, ob- 
tuse, a little shorter than the disk: the outer shorter and abruptly tipped 
with a subulate foliaceous appendage: rays 1-4 or none, oblong, conspicu 
ously exserted: style-appendages subulate-filiform, much exserted: 
achenes linear. finely pubescent. Diy ridges of the higher mountains of 
British Columbia to ‘ alifornia and Nevada. 
C. resinosus Ericameria resinosus Nutt. ~hrubby, 6-38 inches high, 
very much branched. glabrous, becoming very glutinous, leafy: leaves . 
filifiorm-linear, about an inch long, acute, tapering to the base, mostly 
with some very short ones fascicled in their axils: heads loosely cory:mn- 
bose, 5 lines high. 8-12 flowered: bracts of the involucre lanceolate, acute: 
achenes hirsute when young. On shelving rocks in the Blue Mountains 
of Oregon. . 
11 SOLIDAGO Vaillant. (GoLDEN ROD) 
Perennial herbs with mostly simple strict or virgate stems,ses- 
sile alternate cauline leaves and smill yellow fl wers in ample 
terminal panicles. Heads few to mauy-llowered, mostly radiate ; 
disk-flowers tubular, perfect. Bracts of the involucre imbri- 
cated, appressed, destitute of foliaceous or herbaceous tips. 
Receptacle narrow mostly alveolate. Appendages of the style 
lanceolate. Achenes somewhat terete, many-ribbed. Pappus 
simple, of numerous scabrous capillary bristles. ; 
S. confertiflora. DC. Prodr. v. 339. stems simple, leafy to the thyr- 
sus, 1-3 feet high, glabrous, angular above: leaves oval-lanceolate, or ob- 
long-lanceolat , serrate at the apex, entire below, the lower 3-4 inches 
long by 6 lines broad, the radical attenuated into long petioles: upper part . 
of the stem and_jinfloresence resinous: heads numerous, in an elongated 
com ound thyrsus, 8-15-flowered: bracts of the involucre linear, erect: 
rays few and small n gravelly plains British Columbia to Oregon. 
S. hesperius 8. humilis var nany Gray, Stems erect. 2-10 inches 
high, leafy tu the inflorescence ; leaves spatulate to obovate, 1-2 inches long: 
heads few in a close glomerule or more numerous in a spiciform thyrsus: 
bracts of the involucre oblong-linear: achenes pubescent. On the highest 
peaks of the Cascade and Rocky mountains. 
_$. Tolmieana Gray Syn. Fl. i pt. ii 151. Low, a foot or less high, 
leafy up to the short and rather broad inflorescence of spicifurm some- 
what corymbosely disposed clusters: leaves thickish and veins very in- 
conspicuous, linear or lanceolate (2 or three inches long), entire, rarely 
with some minute serratures, the margins usually scabrous-ciliate, glab- 
rous and smooth: heads about 5 lines high crowded in thyrsoid inflorescence, 
not secund: involucral bracts lanceolate acutish, thin: rays rather smail 
8-15: achenes pubescent. Oregon and Washington to Idaho. 
