110 FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT. 



Brook Notch ; Beech Mt. Notch ; and elsewhere (Rand) ; path 

 to Bubble Pond ; path to Newport Pond ; Hadlock Valley 

 (Redfield); Dog Mt., in dry, open ground (Kand). 



S. bicolor, L. WHITE GOLDEN ROD. 

 Roadsides and fields ; common. 



Var. concolor, T. & G. 



Roadside, south of High Head. The plant, however, is not 

 a very well marked form of this variety. 



S. Virgaurea, L. 



Stem erect, sparingly branched, 4'-24' high, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent with curled hairs; leaves linear or lanceolate-oblong, l'-4' 

 long, obscurely toothed, obtuse or acute; heads crowded, 4" long, 

 shortly peduncled, golden yellow; bracts of the involucre linear, 

 acute, glabrous, green, margins scarious; ray flowers 10-12, 

 spreading; disk flowers 10-20 ; achene pubescent, pappus white. 

 Hooker, Fl. Brit. Isles, 205. (See also Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 

 207.) Hio, Southwest Harbor; foot Pemetic Mt. ; Great Cran- 

 berry Isle; path on Jordan Mt. ; Frenchman Camp road (Rand) ; 

 Seal Harbor (R. & R.). This Island form is very like var. 

 angustifolia, Gaud., and var. ericetorumj DC., of the Old World, 

 with lower leaves oblong lanceolate, long petioled, and upper 

 leaves narrower. There are other forms, with narrower, thinner 

 leaves, approaching S. humilis, Pursh, but hardly to be placed 

 under that species. Seal Harbor (Redfield); foot of Western 

 Mt. ; Great Cranberry Isle ; Dog Mt. ; east peak of Western Mt. ; 

 Frenchman Camp road (Rand). 



Var. Randii, Porter. 



More or less glutinous; stems stout, erect, l-2 high, often 

 dark purple, puberulent, or sometimes glabrate below; radical 

 and lower leaves obovate or oblanceolate, acute, serrate, cauline 

 lanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, sparingly serrate or entire, 

 glabrous; inflorescence an ample branched panicle or loose 

 virgate thyrse; heads 3" or more long; outer scales of the 

 involucre mostly ovate or lance-ovate and bluntish, sometimes 

 almost linear and acute, inner ones oblong-linear, yellowish, 



