CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. HI 



with scarious margins and acute or acuminate tips; achenes 

 pubescent or nearly smooth. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 208. 

 Abundant; dry fields, roadsides, and among rocks, especially 

 in the southern part of the Island. Also found on the moun- 

 tains, distinct, or imperceptibly passing into the next variety. 

 Frenchman Camp; Seal Harbor (R. & R.); Sea wall, Long 

 Pond; Northeast Harbor; Southwest Harbor; The Cliffs, Seal 

 Harbor; Hunters Beach Head; Long Pond meadows; Sargent 

 Mt. ; Dog Mt. ; Pemetic Mt. ; Western Mt. ; Great Cranberry 

 Isle, etc. (Rand). 



Var. monticola, Porter. S. puberula, Nutt., var. monticola, 



Porter, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xix. 129. 



Stems 3'-12' high, often slender; inflorescence a short, com- 

 pact, or sometimes loose thyrse, 2' -4? long; heads l"-3" long; 

 scales of the involucre variable, ovate and bluntish or oblong 

 and obtuse, inner ones not elongated. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 xx. 209. Common on mountain summits, and occasionally at 

 lower altitudes, even at the sea level. Sargent Mt. ; Pemetic 

 Mt. ; Jordan Mt. ; Western Mt. ; Dog Mt. ; Hunters Beach 

 Head; Seal Harbor; Great Cranberry Isle (Rand). 



Var. Redfieldii, Porter. 



Very glutinous; stems stout and rigid, 16'-18' high; leaves 

 thickish or coriaceous; branches of the panicle starting from 

 half-way down the stem or even from the base, strict, erect, 

 bearing short clusters of heads in the upper bracts ; heads small, 

 2"-3" long; scales of the involucre short, more or less scarious. 

 Its inflorescence is strikingly like that of S. juncea, Ait., var. 

 ramosa, Porter & Britt. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 209. Rare. 

 Seal Harbor, etc. (Redfield) ; foot of Western Mt. ; Great 

 Cranberry Isle (Rand). 



S. sempervirens, L. SEA GOLDEN ROD. 



Frequent on sea cliffs ; common in salt or brackish marshes, 

 and on muddy beaches. 



S, puberula, Nutt. 



Dry, open ground, and by waysides ; common ; less frequent 

 in woods. Very variable in form of inflorescence, etc. A form 



