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Carolina. A stout species, three to four feet high, allied to S. serotina, but with a cuneate leaf, 
and pubescent achenium. | 
Solidago ae stem puberulous; leaves oblong-lanceolate, ‘eumeate, 
ee-ner fod: panicle elongated; racemes erect, or somewhat recurved ; 
rays narrow, as long as the disk, ten to sixteen ; achenium pubescent. @. Leaves 
longer, and the racemes more secund. 
Has. Wappatoo Island and the plains of the Oregon. Remarkable for the great elongation of 
the panicle, often half a foot long, narrowly pyramidal, three to four inches wide in the widest 
part. Rays very narrow, numerous, two-toothed; discal florets eight to twelve; pedicels and 
rachis pubescent. Receptacle deeply alveolate. It has the aspect of S. puberula, but the stem is 
very slenderly and minutely pubescent. oi 
‘olidago Missouriensis; (Nutr. in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sei., Vol. V., p. 7.) 
> cy Mountains. From specimens which I obtained sinc publishing this 
syeeies, I find that it belongs to the first section of the genus, having aa ae 
thickish polished leaves, perfectly smooth, though a little scabrous on the 
gin. Discal florets about twelve, rays ten, shorter than the disk. Achentom 
slightly pubescent. 
Has. Missouri, Arkansas, the Rocky Mountains, and near Chapel-Hill, North Carolina. 
- Solidago radula; (Nutr. in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Vol. VIL, p. 102.) 
Arkansa. This species has some affinity with S. rugosa, but the leaves have 
no rugosity, and are cuneate-oblong, above Oyama ni ceOlnpe, the lower serrated 
distantly evards the are goreies. of the involucrum oblong-ovate, very 
nd. ength of the disk. Nearly allied 
to the Ss. ae em 
** + Racemes erect. 
Solidago hirsuta; (Nutr. in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. VIL, p. 103.) ° Very 
similar to S. bicolor, but the rays are yellow and smaller, and the leaves lanceo- 
_ late or oblong-lancealate. we is y oe 
Solidago * nana; ‘nswitt cinereous: and pulverulently pubescent, dwarf, 
many stems from the same root; lower and radical leaves spathulate, obtuse, _ 
entire, or subserrulate it the apex, stem leniys linear, narrowed below ; ramuli 
