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»»♦♦♦ Bacemes spreading or recurved, secund : leaves veiny, sometimes indislinctly iriplinerved, usuaUy serrate. 



10. SoLiDAGo NEGLECTA, ToTT. Sf Gr. (Plate LV.) Neglected Golden-rod. 



Stem smooth, striate ; leaves mostly thickish, smooth ; the radical and lowest cauline oblong 

 or ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute at each end, sessile (often obscurely triplinerved), finely 

 appressed-serrate, the upper ones entire ; racemes short, dense, secund, somewhat spreading, 

 disposed in an elongated or pyramidal somewhat leafy panicle ; peduncles and pedicels 

 smoothish ; heads 8 - 12-flowered ; scales of the involucre oblong, obtuse, pubescent on the 

 margin ; achenia smoothish. — Torr. ^ Gr. Jl. N. Am. 2. p. 213. 



Stem 3-6 feet high, rather stout. Primordial leaves rather obtuse ; the others very acute. 

 Racemes at first rather erect, at length more or less spreading. Heads middle sized ; the 

 pedicels short, but slender. Rays 4-5, rather large. 



Swamps ; rather common in various parts of the State. August - September. This species 

 is probably often confounded with S. Muhlenbcrgii and S. arguta. From the former it differs 

 in its more entire leaves, strict and terete stem and fewer-flowered heads, etc. ; from the latter 

 by its elongated panicle, with short racemes, and also by its larger heads and much fewer 

 flowers, etc. 



11. SoLiDAGo PATULA, Muhl. Spreading Golden-rod. 



Stem angled and striate, smooth, usually branched above ; leaves (large) elliptical, serrate, 

 very smooth underneath, rough above ; racemes mostly short and crowded on the elongated 

 and somewhat leafy branches, at length spreading or recurved ; peduncles scabrous-pubescent ; 

 scales of the involucre oblong, rather obtuse ; rays 6 - 7 ; disk-flowers 8 - 10 ; achenia 

 sparsely and minutely pubescent. — Muhl. in Willd. sp. 3. p. 2059 ; Pursh, Jl. 2. p. 537 ; 

 Torr. compend. p. 302 ; Beck, hot. p. 190 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 457 ; DC. prodr. 5. p. 333 ; 

 Torr. 4* Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 213. S. asperata. Banks, ?nss.; Pursh, I. c; Hook.Jl. Bor.- 

 Am. 2. p. 3. 



Stem 3-4 feet high, often purple. Leaves somewhat coriaceous, very rough above, often 

 of a dull purplish or leaden hue ; radical ones 4-8 inches long and 2-3 inches in breadth, 

 narrowed into a winged petiole ; cauline acute at each end, the serratures acute and rather 

 appressed. Racemes paniculate, secund. Heads ratiier large. Scales of the involucre 

 green, minutely pubescent. Rays oblong, middle-sized. 



Borders of swamps, and in wet meadows ; common. August - September. Sometimes 

 the panicle is contracted, and the racemes only slightly secuna. 



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