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6. SoLiDAGO ViRGA-AUREA, Linn. Common European Golden-rod. 



Stem terete or slightly angular ; cauline leaves lanceolate, tapering at each end, serrate, the 

 lower ones elliptical, petioled ; raceme erect, simple or compoimd ; scales of the involucre 

 lanceolate, acute ; rays about 8 ; achenia minutely pubescent. — lAnn. sp. 2. p . 880 ; Engl. 

 hot. t. 301 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 306 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 5 ; DC. prodr. 5. p. 338 ; 

 Torr. 4- Gr.Jl. N. Am. 2 p. 206. 



var. alpina : stem 3-8 inches high, smooth or a little pubescent ; leaves oblong-obovate 

 or spatulate, acute or obtuse ; heads (large) in a dense thyrsoid or corymbose raceme ; in- 

 volucre smoothish ; rays 8 - 12. — Bigel. I. c. ; Torr. ^ Gr. I. c. S. Virga-Aurea, j8. Hook. 

 Brit.fl. {ed. 4.) p. 306. 



Root thick and creeping, ligneous. Stem erect, simple, often flowering when only about 

 2 inches high. Leaves 1-2^ inches long and 4-8 lines wide, crenately serrate ; the upper 

 ones nearly entire ; lower and radical attenuate into a winged petiole. Heads few, and large 

 for the size of the plant. Rays elongated. 



Summit of Mount Marcy, Essex county. August. This is the only species of Solidago 

 common to Europe and America, 



*»• Heads large, in a amipownd carymb ; leaves feather-veined or ^nerved. 



7. Solidago rigida, Linn. Rigid-leaved Golden-rod. 



Roughly pubescent and somewhat hoary ; stem stout, corymbosely branched at the summit ; 

 leaves ovate or oval, rigid, slightly clasping, the lower ones serrate and petioled, the uppermost 

 entire ; heads very large, 25 - 30-flowered, crowded ; pedicels short ; scales of the involucre 

 oblong, very obtuse. — Linn. sp. 2. p. 880 ; Ait. Kew. (ed. 1 .) 3. p.2l6 ; Michoo. fl. 2. p. 118; 

 Pursh,fl. 2. p. 543 ; FJl. sk. 2. p. 390 ; Hook.Jl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 5 ; DC. prodr. 5. p. 337 ; 

 Beck, hot. p. 193 ; Torr. <^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 209. S, grandiflora, Raf. in med. rep. 

 (hex. 2.) 5. p. 359. 



Stem 3-4 feet high, rigid, terete, minutely and densely pubescent. Leaves clothed with 

 a minute but usually rough pubescence, sometimes rather soft underneath ; lower ones 

 remotely serrate with appressed teeth ; radical ones 4-8 inches long, tapering to narrow 

 petioles, 1-2^ inches wide ; upper ones gradually smaller, and more or less clasping. 

 Heads large and showy. Scales of the involucre usually pubescent. Rays 7 - 10. Achenia 

 very smooth. 



Dry hill-sides, usually in rocky places. Highlands of New- York {Dr. Barratt), and in the 

 western part of the State. August - October. 



