776 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry open grassy pine barrens. Lee 

 County, Auburn, 800 feet altitude (Earle). Escambia County, near Wilson's Sta- 

 tion. Mobile County, Bay shell road. October; not frequent. 



Type locality: "Middle Florida, in fertile soil, Dr. Chapman! J>r. Ah:atmU-r! 

 Georgia & Alabama, Baldwin! Le Conte." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solidago pallescens Mohr, sp. nov. 



Stem from a stout erect rootstock, slender, 2 to 3^ feet high, simple or paniculately 

 branched above, sparsely pubescent ; radical leaves 3 to 3 inches long, ovate-oblong, 

 narrowed at the base into a winged petiole; lower canliue leaves ovate, attenuate 

 into broadly margined petioles, acuminate, mncronnlate, irregularly dentate toward 

 the apex, the upper ovate to oblong, sessile, rather obtuse; rameal leaves gradually 

 reduced to small bracts subtending the flowering heads, all of a liriu texture, pale- 

 glaucescent, particularly on the lower surface, ciliate, with prominent midrib; racemes 

 slender, erect or spreading, secund; flowering heads small, involucral bracts obtuse, 

 glabrous, except on the slightly hairy margin ; achenes silky-pubescent, with a rigid 

 scabrous pappus. 



Resembles Solidago brachyphylla, but is abundantly distinct by the ]>ale glauces- 

 cence, etc. 



Carolinian area. 



ALABAMA : Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Auburn, October, 1896 (Baker $ Earle}. 

 Type locality as just given. 



Solidago arguta Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 213. 1789. SHARP-SERRATE GOLDEN-HOD. 



Solidago muhlenbergii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 2 : 214. 1842. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 374. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 250. Chap. Fl. 212. Gray, S.vn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 

 2 : 154. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario and New England, west and south to 

 Indiana, Minnesota, southwestern Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and along the 

 mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp grassy openings. Clay County, waterfall 

 near Pulpit Rock, 2,200 feet, grassy swale. July, August; rare. 

 Type locality: "Native of North America/' 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solidago vaseyi nom. nov. 



Solidago arguta caroliniana Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 155. 1884. Not Erigeron 

 carolinianus L. 



Chap.Fl.ed.3,231. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1 c. 



Over 2 feet high; stem glabrous below, branches and inflorescence pubescent; 

 leaves smooth, the radical and lower cauline ample, from 1 to 2 inches wide and 3| 

 to 4 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, sharply serrate, the upper lanceolate, acuminate, 

 entire, all on short-winged petioles, acute; flowering heads large, 14 or 15 flowered, 

 numerous, racemose in the axils of the leav f es in short paniculate clusters ; involucre 

 puberulent; achenes densely silky-hairy. This plant has little in common with 

 S. arguta, and is strikingly distinct by the characters noted. 



Carolinian area. Mountains of North Carolina (Roan Mountain, 5,000 feet), Ten- 

 nessee, and northwestern Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coosa Hills. Wooded summits and slopes of hills. 

 Cullman County, Holmes Gap, 1,200 feet altitude. Clay County, Che aw-ha Moun- 

 tain. St. Clair County, near Ashville (G. R. Vasey}. August; very rare. 



Type locality (Gray) : " Mountains of North Carolina and of adjacent South Caro- 

 lina and Georgia, G. R. Vasey, /. Donnell Smith." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Solidago serotina gigantea (Ait.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17:180. 1882. . 



LARGE LATE-FLOWERING GOLI>K\-IJOI>. 



Solidago gigantea Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 211. 1789. 

 S. gigantea Willd. 3 : 2056. 1804. Not Ait. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 251. Chap. Fl. 214. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. l,pt.2: 156. 

 Boreal region to Carolinian area. Newfoundland through Canada to north latitude 

 50 to the Pacific, south to Georgia, west to Texas, and across the plains to Nevada. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region? A single, specimen collected by G. R. Vasey, in 

 " North Alabama," 1878. 

 Type locality: "Native of North America." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



