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late, fewer than ton, (commonly five) in the 

 ray: proper of llie lic-nriaphrodiie fLiiintl-lorni, 

 wiili a fivt'-ck-ft, patulous border :— iciiiale lion- 

 late, lanrcnlatc, ilirce toctlicd : the stamina in 

 tiie hermaphrodites : filaments five, capillary, 

 verv short: anthers cylindiical, tubular: the 

 pistillum ill the iicrmaphrodites : germ oblong : 

 stvic filiform, length of the stamens : stigma 

 bifid, sprearling: — in the fema'cs: germ oblong: 

 stvle fi ilorm, length of the hermaiilirodile : 

 stigmas two, revo'ule : there is no pericarpium : 

 calvx scarcely changed: the seeds in the herma- 

 phrodites solitary, obovale-ob!ong: secd-dowii 

 capillary : — in the females very like the others : 

 the receptacle flattish, naked. 



The species cultivated are: 1. S. Virgaiirea, 

 Common Golden-rod ; 2. S. Caiiadevsis, Cana- 

 dian Golden-rod ; 3. S. allisstma, Tall Golden- 

 rod ; 4. S. Mexicana, Mexican Golden-rod ; 

 3. S. vim'mea, Twigiry Golden-rod ; 6. ,S'. hico- 

 lor, Two-coloured Golden-rod ; 7 • S. rigiila, 

 Hard-leaved Golden-rod; 8. S.cceda, Maryland 

 Golden-rod; 9. S.Jlcxicmdis, Crooked-stalked 

 Golden-rod ; 10. S.sempervirens, Narrow-leaved 

 Evergreen Golden-rod. 



The first has a perennial root, of long simple 

 fibres : the stem very various in height, from 

 ten inches to three feet, commonly branching 

 into a panicle, more or less flexuose, never en- 

 tirely stiff and straight, leafv, angular, striated, 

 a little downy ; at the base round and often 

 purple : the leaves elliptic-lanceolate, somewhat 

 rugged, and stifFish ; those next the root wider, 

 on longer petioles, and more widely serrate ; 

 stem-leaves for the most part indistinctly cre- 

 iiate-serrate, sometimes almost quite entire, 

 varying in size, often recurved; the upper ones 

 gradually diminishing into lanceolate downy 

 bractes : all somewhat hairy, or covered with 

 short stiff down, paler underneath; footstalks 

 winged : the flowers in terminating and axillary 

 erect clusters or corymbs, forming a dense leafy 

 pubescent panicle, which varies extremely as to 

 luxuriance and number of flowers ; in a barren 

 «oil and on mountains being shorter, more dense 

 and less compound. They are of a golden colour. 

 It is a native of Europe, Siberia, and Japan, flow- 

 ering from July to September. It has sometimes 

 the names of Wound-wort and Aaron's rod. 



There are several varieties; as the purple- 

 stalked broad-leaved, which has the stalks stiff, 

 purplish brown, two feet high : the panicles 

 axillary and terminating; each flower on a long 

 slender footstalk, pale yellow, appearing at the 

 beginning of August : the leaves lanceolate, 

 almost four inches long, and a quarter of an inch 

 broad, deeply serrate, pale green beneath. 



The Common Golden-rod, which has the lower 

 leaves ovate-lanccoiatc, two inches long and an 

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inch broad, slightly serrate, on pretty long foot- 

 stalks : the stems slender, a fool and halt liigh; 

 with small, narrow, entire, sessile leaves : Uie 

 flowers in panicled bunches, clustered together, 

 fornnng a thick erect spike, appearing in Au- 

 gust and September. The nanow-Icaved, which 

 has the stalk round, smooth, a foot and half 

 high : the leaves narrow- lanceolate, an inch and 

 quarter long, and an eighth of an inch broad, 

 almost c-ntiie, sessile: the flowers in small 

 clustered bunches from the axils, to which they 

 sit very close; and the stalk is terminated by a 

 roundish bunch. 'J'heDwarf Golden-rod, which 

 has the lower leaves indented : the stalk seldom 

 more than a foot high, branching out almost 

 from the bottom : the branches rerminated In- 

 short, clustered, erect spikes : the leaves on the 

 stem and branches very narrow, acute-pointed 

 and entire. The Welch Golden-rod, which has 

 the lower leaves narrow-lanceolate, an inch and 

 half long, and a quarter of an inch broad, 

 s;nooth, slightly serrate, a little hoary on the 

 under side : the stalk about six inches high, with 

 the same sort of leaves on it, only smaller : the 

 flowers in roundish clustered terminating spikes, 

 much larger than those of the common sort, and 

 appearing five or six weeks earlier in the season. 



The second species has the stalks round, 

 smooth, and two feet high ; the leaves narrow 

 and rough, with three longitudinal veins, two 

 inches and a half long, and a quarter of an inch 

 broad in the middle, sessile, ending in acute 

 points, and having sometimes a few slight ser- 

 ratures : the flowers in a roundish terminatini^ 

 panicle, the lower spikes of which are reflexed^ 

 but those at the top erect and joined very close. 

 These appear in July. It is a native of Canada, 



The third has the stems numerous, straio-ht, 

 rigid, from three to four feet and a half htgh, 

 the thickness of a straw or more at the base, 

 round, slightly streaked, hirsute, clothed from 

 top to bottom at short distances with leaves, 

 which are widish, oblong, pointed, rough, at 

 their upper and lower parts thinly crenate, in 

 the middle serrate, the serratures minutely cre- 

 nate ; those on the upper branches not serrate, 

 but only minutely crenate ; they are green on 

 both sides, with a few oblique veins, and are 

 hairy along the nerve and veins at the back, but 

 without hairs every where else: the flowers very 

 many, on the upper branches, in long rod-like 

 spikes, somewhat reflexed, having four, five, or 

 SIX florets in the ray: they appear In August and 

 September. It is' a native of New England, 

 Virginia, and Carolina. 



There are several varieties ; as the Tallest 

 Golden-rod— the Hairy Golden-rod — the Re- 

 curved Golden-rod — the Virginia Golden-rod. 



The fourth species has oblique stalks, a foot 

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