PL ex. cal. S9. COMPOSITE, C. 232. Eurybia. 465 



Aster maritimiis coerulens Tiipolium dictus, Raii Syn. 175, 2. 



Tri(>olium vulgare majus, et minus, Ger. em. 413, 1 et 2. 



Tripolium majus sive vulgare, et minus, Park. 673. 



Aster Tripolium, fjn. S. F. 1226. 



Sea starwort. Blue daisies. Blue camomile. 



Salt marshes ; perennial ; August aud September. 

 Root fibrous , slem upright ; leaves not cut, lower leave& 

 petioled; calatkides large; pericline-scales slightly fringed. 



$• Jiosculosa. Calathides flosculousj rays 0. 



LVIII. 233. SOLJDAGO. Brunsfel. Golden-rod. 



PericUne ovate ; scales imbricate, oblong, lanceolate, 

 unequal, pressed close, becoming spread open, edge mem- 

 branaceous; calatkides Ta^iatsAi flowers all fertile; of the 

 centre funnelshape, hermaphrodite; of the rays 5 or 10, 

 yellow, female; ligulae oblong, toothed; clinanthus flat, 

 small, pitted, naked ; akeniuvi roundish, hairy ; pappus 

 hairlike, rough. — Herb perennial ; calathides small, race- 

 mose. 



Solidago vulgaris. Commoji golden-rod. 



Stem downy, generally branched; upper leaves lanceo- 

 late, narrow at both ends ; lower elliptical, hairy ; racemes 

 upright; calathides crowded, longer than the peduncle. 



Virga aurea, Rati Syn. 173, 1. 

 Virga aurea vulgaris, Park. 542. 

 Solidago Virga-aurea, Lin. S. P. 1235. 



Woods and hedges ; perennial ; July to September, 

 Stem generally panicled ; radical leaves petioled. — For- 

 merly in great esteem as an astringent and styptic herb, 

 and sold dry as imported from Italy at half a crown an 

 ounce; but when found to be a native of Hampstead- 

 heath fell into contempt, on which change in its value Ge- 

 rarde is^ery pleasant. 



^. dentata. Stem branched ; leaves indistinctly serrated. 



Virga aurea, Ger. em. 430, 1. 



V. incurva. Stem simple, serpentine-; leaves lanceolate : 

 calathides spiked. 



^. paniadata. Stem simple, straight; leaves lanceolate, 

 tomentose ; upper leaves rarely sessile ; lower petioled ; 

 calathides panicled. 



Virga aurea raontana, folio subangusto subincano, fiosculii^ cooglobatis. 

 Rail S]/n. 177,4. 



Solidago cambrica, Hudson Fl, Angl. 367 , 

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