OF TREES AND PLANTS. 191 



from which I have a thriving one under culture from a flip of 

 it. The ftalk is {lender, from two to three feet high, and branch- 

 ed at the top. The leaves arc firm, fmooth, and ferrated at the 

 edges, fometimes limple and ovated, and fometimes with acute 

 femi-pinnules, the terminale one largeil. The calyx is cylin- 

 dric, elegantly imbricated, and fmooth. The flowers are in a 

 kind of umbels ; compofed of uniform purple florets. The 

 feed is crowned with hairs, of a brownifh mining yellow. Few 

 of them feem to arrive at a fecundating flatc, efpecially thofe 

 that are very fmall, which may be the reafon why it is fuch a 

 fcarce plant with us. It flowers in July and Auguft. It is tinclo- 

 rial. A fine yellow is drawn from it, which is very much va- 

 lued. It is, therefore, like other tinctorial plants, fit for wounds. 

 It is commended for thofe that are occafioned by falls, and for 

 ruptures, but it is feldom ufed * 



76. The Golden-Rod (y) is frequent on the flrands of alpine 1 

 brooks, and about rocks. The root is fibrous. The ftalk is from 

 a foot to three feet high, and branched. The bottom-leaves are 

 ufually ovated and ferrated ; the upper ones ovated and lanceo- 

 lated, firm, hairy, and crenated, on pedicles. The flowers are in 

 fpikes, at diftances, of a pale fhining yellow. The florets, of 

 which they are compofed, are few and large. The tube is bi- 

 corneous. The femi-florets have three nerves with a contracted 

 apex, cut into five or ten parts. The calyx is of a pale mining 



* Ad Colorem flavum expetitur, &c. HALLER. 



(y) Virga aurea. Ger. p. 348. eniuc. p. 430. Raj. Hid. i. p. 278. Syn. p. 8l. Dal. Pharm. 

 p. 88, 89. Virga aurea vulgaris. Park. Theatr. p. 542. Hid. Oxm. iii. p. 124. Virga 

 aurea Jatifolia ferrata. C. B. Pin. p. ztS. Virga aurea vulgaris latifolia. I. B. \\. 1062. 

 lourn. Inft. p. 484. Valll. Al. 1720. p. 396. Solidago floribus per caulem fimplicem un- 

 dique fparfis. Linn. Flo. I-app. n. 306. Solidago caule ereiSo, racemis alternis ercftis. 

 Hort. Cliff, p. 409. Flo. Succ. n. 685. Raytn, lugdb. p. 161. Hall. Helv. p. 729. 



green. 



