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paniculatis eredlis confertis. Sp. pi. 12^5 {Ger. 



em. 430./. I, 2. Pet. herb. 1. 16, /. 9, 10. Moris. 



hijl. f. 7. t. .2%, f. 4, ordinis fuperioris, '^ fig. 



20. ordinis medii.) 

 Golden Rod. Anglis. 

 In rough mountainous pailures, and in woods tre 



quent. %. VIII. 

 The root is woody ; the ftalk firm, a little rough, 



and varies from fix inches to five feet high ; its 



common height about a yard : the leaves are a 

 little hard, and rough to the touch -, the lower 

 ones oval-lanceolate, generally a little ferrated, 

 and fupported on footftalks : thofe on the flalks 

 arc elliptical, fometimes flightly ferrated, but 

 commonly entire. 

 The fiowers are yellow, and grow in a fpiked pa- 

 nicle : the fcales of the cdyx are lanceolate, of 

 unequal length, and of a pale green colour : the 

 female florets which compole the rays are In 

 number from five to eight j the hermaphrodite 

 ones in the difc from ten to twelve. The feed 

 is^little hairy, pointed at the bafe, convex on 

 one fide, and plain on the other. 

 ?>• A variety of this plant frequently occurs, growing 

 out of the rocks near the fummits of the high- 

 land mountains, which is often not above fix 

 inches or a foot high, and bears fewer fiov/ers, 

 growing in a fliorter and more compact fpike: 

 the leaves are alfo frequently a little dov^ny, 

 and the plant flowers earlier. This is the S. Cam- 

 T i 2 hice. 



