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8. Solidago erecta Pursh. 

 Slender Golden-rod. (Fig. 3678.) 



Solidago erecta Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 542. 



1814. 

 Solidago speciosa var. angnstala T. &. G. 



Fl. N. A. 2: 205. 1841. 



Stem slender, glabrous, or puberulent 

 above, 2-3 higb, simple or rarely 

 branched. Leaves firm, nearly glabrous 

 on both sides, ciliolate on the margins, 

 the lower and basal ones broadly oblong 

 or oval, obtuse or obtusish, crenate- 

 dentate, the upper lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, usually quite entire; 

 heads 2"-%," bigh in a very narrow 

 terminal thyrsus, rarely also with a few 

 clustered in the upper axils; bracts of 

 the involucre obtuse; achenes glabrous. 



In dry soil, New Jersey and Pennsyl- 

 vania to Georgia and North Carolina. 

 Aug.-Sept. 



g. Solidago monticola T. & G. 



Mountain Golden-rod. 



(Fig. 3679. ) 



Solidago Curtisii var. monticola T. & G. 



Fl. N. A. 2: 200. 1841. 

 Solidago monticola T. & G.; Chapm. Fl. 



S. States, 209. i860. 



Slender, glabrous or nearly so, i-3 

 high. Stem leaves ovate-oblong, or 

 oblong-lanceolate, thin, acuminate at 

 the apex, narrowed at the base, sharply 

 and sparingly serrate, or the upper en- 

 tire, l'-6' long.4^-1^ 7 wide, the upper 

 sessile, the lower petioled; basal leaves 

 broadly oblong, obtuse, with slender 

 petioles; heads about 1" high; in a 

 terminal spike- like simple or branched 

 thyrsus; bracts of the involucre acut- 

 ish or obtuse; achenes glabrous. 



Tn mountain woods, Pennsylvania and 

 Maryland to Georgia and Alabama. 



10. Solidago macrophylla Pursh. 

 L,arge-leaved Golden-rod. (Fig. 3680.) 



Solidago macrophylla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 542. 



1814. 

 Solidago thyrsoidea E. Meyer, PI. Lab. 63. 1S30. 



Stem striate, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, 

 stout, [6'-4 high. Leaves thin, ovate, acumi- 

 nate, or the basal ones obtuse, sharply serrate, 

 glabrous, or sparingly pubescent beneath, 3'-5' 

 long, \'-2]i' wide, abruptly contracted into 

 margined petioles, or the uppermost lanceolate, 

 entire, sessile; heads 5 // -6 // high in a terminal 

 compact or loose thyrsus and usually also in 

 axillary clusters; bracts of the involucre linear, 

 acute; rays 8-10, linear-oblong, conspicuous; 

 achenes glabrous or nearly so. 



In rocky woods, Catskill Mountains, N. Y. to 

 Labrador and Hudson Bay, west to Lake Superior. 

 Ascends to 4000 ft. in the Adirondacks. July-Sept. 



