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6. SoLiDAGo ViRGA-AUREA, Liun. Commoti European Gol<kn-rod. 



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

 ower ones elliptical, petioled ; raceme erect, simple or compound; scales of the involucre 

 lanceolate, acute ; rays about 8 ; achenia minutely pubescent. - Linn. sp. 2 p 880 • En^l 

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

 Torr. 4- Gr.fl. 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.- B.gel. I. c. ; Torr. ^ Gr. I. c. S. Virga-Aurea, /3. Hook, 

 iirit.ft. (ed. 4.) p. 306. 



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

 2 mches 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 Solida<ro 

 common to Europe and America. '^ 



♦•♦ Heads large, in a ampmmd con/mb ; leaves feaHer-vcined or 3-nerved. 



7. SoLiDAGo RiGiDA, Lim. Rigid-haved 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.-Ltn«. sp. 2. p. 880 ; Ait. Kew. (ed. 1 .) 3. p. 216; Micfur. fl.2 p 118- 

 Pursh, ft 2. p. 543 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 390 ; Hook. ft. 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 - 2i 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 Stale. August - October. 



