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Report of the State Botanist. 29 



Solidago uliginosa N^utt. 

 This pretty golden rod is common in the Adirondack ret^ion. 

 It usually inhabits bogs, marshes or wet places, but sometimes it 

 is found growing in dry soil. It grows in such soil on "The 

 Plains " and on the banks of the upper Oswegatchie river. 



Solidago juncea Ait. 



Though described in the Manual as " smooth throughout," a 

 form occurs on the Helderberg mountains in which the stem and 

 branches are distinctly, though somewhat sparsely, hairy. This 

 is the earliest in flower of the goldenrods about Albany. 



Solidago Canadensis Z. 

 A form is common on "The Plains" in which the stem is but 

 slightly hajry and the leaves are nearly smooth. They are either 

 sharply serrate or almost eatire. This form makes a close 

 approach to S. serotina. 



Aster nemoralis Ait. 



Several years ago a single specimen of this neat little aster was 

 brought me by Judge Addison Brown, of Xew York, who col- 

 lected it near Hitchings Pond. Recently, fine specimens were 

 collected by myself on the marshy borders of one of the " Five 

 Ponds" in the northern part of Herkimer county. The heads of 

 flowers are large for the size of the plant and vary in number from 

 one to seven in the specimens collected. There was also found on the 

 rocky shore of this pond, near its outlet, a patch of a much larger 

 form of this aster, for which I propose the name variety major. 

 Stem one and a half to two feet high ; heads of flowers, ten to 

 thirty ; leaves larger, two and a half to three inches long, five to 

 S3ven lines broad, distantly dentate-serrate. 



This variety grows in patches, but the typical form, so far as I 

 have observed it, is scattered. In both forms the lower surface 

 of the leaves is minutely resinous or glandular-puberulent, 

 although this character is not noticed in the description of the 

 Manual. The plants in press stick slightly to the drying papers 

 because of this character. This aster occurs also in a marsh near 

 Jayville. It appears thus far to be limited in its range to the 

 northwestern part of the Adirondack region. 



