r64 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



in Gray's New Manual, but the East Nebraska reference must be a 

 mistake, as this lowland species does not get up to Nebraska. 



West Louisiana and Texas, in a narrow-leaved form from 

 Northwestern Arkansas, Harvey, according to Gray in the Flora of 

 North America, but the northwestern Arkansas reference must 

 refer to some other species, most probably E- gymnospermoides. 



A species of the low alluvial bottoms of the lower Mississippi 

 River valley, north to Southeastern Missouri and Southern Illinois 

 west to Texas. 1 



First collected by Busli. 

 Specimens Examined: 

 Missouri : 



Butler County, Bush 3704, October 15, 1905, Herb. No. 



75io6; 

 Butler County, Bush 3704, October 15, 1905, U. S. Herb. 



No. 492092; 

 Butler County, Bush 3704A, October 15, 1905, Herb. No. 



75004; 



1 Allied to E. LEptocephala and yet abundantly distinct from it, is a 

 plant of the Southeastern States, which may be disposed of as 



EUTHAMIA FASTIGIATA Bush, n. Sp. 



Stems simple, fastigiately branched at the top, striate, smooth and 

 shining, 6-8 dm. tall; branches, branchlets and pedicles somewhat seabrous; 

 leaves 3-6 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, minutely punctate on the upper surface, 

 minutely seabrous on the lower, minutely serrulate on the margins, 1 -ribbed, 

 or with a pair of indistinct lateral nerves, or the larger 3-5-nerved; inflores- 

 cence a flat-topped corymb; heads more or less loosely pedicelled, about 

 3.5 mm. high, sub-cylindric, 16-18 flowered; bracts of the involucre in 

 several series, yellow, ovate to ovate-oblong, the inner soft and thin; achenes 

 top-shaped, minutely pubscent. 



Apparently a plant of the lowlands, confined to the Southeastern States. 

 allied also to E. chrysothamnoidES Greene, of Arkansas and Louisiana, but 

 very distinct. 



Specimens examined: 

 North Carolina: 



Biltmorc, BiltmorE Herbarium, 993b, August 23, 1897, Herb. 

 No. 75054, Type. 

 Florida: 



Jacksonville, Curtiss 5347, October 1, 1894, Herb. No. 75062; 

 Jacksonville, Curtiss, 1349, October, N. D. Herb. No. 6333. 

 Virginia: 



White Sulphur Springs, Mackenzie 495, September 7. t< 

 For those who prefer the name Solidugo for these species, I offer SolidagO 

 fastigiata Bush, ii. sp., as the name of this plant. 



