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tribution, North America ; habitat, fields and waysides, common. 

 Heads half-inch diameter, white, tinged with purple ; April to July. 



5. U. Jamaiccmis 7 An annual, softly pubescent plant ; stem 

 simple, slender, erect, six to eighteen inches high, nodding before 

 flowers expand ; root leaves rosulate, obovate, blunt, lyrate pinna- 

 tifid or sinuate toothed, tapering into the narrowly -winged petiole : 

 stem leaves few, distant, obovate, spatulate, sharplj'- few serrate, 

 clasping the stem, uppermost small, entire. Heads few, in terminal 

 corymb ; rays two seriate, innumerable, thread-like, twice as long 

 as bracts ; pappus simple. Distribution, Jamaica, &c. ; habitat, a 

 pretty wayside plant, not uncommon. Heads half -inch diameter, 

 rays purple, disk yellow; April and May. The above is undoubt- 

 edly an Erigcron^ but I am a little uncertain about the species. 



IV. SOLIDAGO. 



Ferennial herbs, tvith erect stems. Heads small, yelloiv, few-Jlowered, 

 in terminal or axillary racemes ; ray florets few, distant, female. Bracts 

 numerous, oppressed, imbricated ; receptacle narrow, honeycomhed ; pappus 

 a single rotv of rottgh, slender bristles. 



1. S. sempervirens. Linn. (Golden rod). Stem erect, smooth, pur- 

 plish, two to four feet high ; leaves lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 one to two inches wide, six to ten inches long, smooth, entire, 

 rather fleshy ; the root leaves on long, slender petioles, the upper 

 sessile, half embracing the stem ; panicles one-sided, long, com- 

 pact, nodding ; pedicels pubescent ; ray florets eight to ten. Dis- 

 tribution, North America ; habitat, a very common plant by way- 

 sides and along the shores, unmistakable from its long, compact 

 panicle of golden yellow flowers. June to October. 



V. PLUCHEA. 



Strong-scented herbs or shrubs, with purple flowers ; heads discoid in 

 many-flowered corymbs ; the outer florets numerous, slender, female, per- 

 fect florets central, with a dilated five-cleft corolla and long entire style ; 

 involucre imbricated ; receptacle flat, naked. 



1. P. camphor ata (March Fleabane). An annual, fleshy plant, with 

 stout, erect stem, one to one and a half feet high, branched above, 

 all parts clothed with short, viscid hairs ; leaves two to three inches 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, scarcely stalked, the lower sharply 

 toothed, upper entire ; corymbs crowded ; pappus simple, red. 

 Distribution, United States ; habitat, marshes. Heads purple ; 

 Mfty to August. 



2. P. odorata. A shrub four to six feet high, much branched from 

 the base, branchlets clothed with rusty, woolly down ; leaves oblong, 

 pointed, entire, woolly beneath, margin wavy, tapering into the 

 short petiole ; corymbs much branched, heads numerous ; outer 

 bracts broadly ovate, blunt, inner narrow, oblong, pointed. Dis- 

 tribution, West Indies ; habitat, waysides, thickets, &c., not com- 

 mon. Heads pink, one-third inch in diameter ; February to May. 



