- sight to ten; discal florets about five or six; pappus of the rays a little shorter. 
328 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES 
fastigiate, subcorymbose ; bractes linear; involucrum nearly smooth, scales 
ovate; rays about seven, oblong, as long as the disk; achenium pubescent. 
Has. In the Rocky Mountain range, near Lewis’ River of the Shoshonee. About a span high, 
with a large, black, almost woody root. Stem leaves small, radical ones about one and a half 
inches by half an inch wide; scales of the involucrum unusually broad, pubescent on the margin, 
rays conspicuous. Apparently allied to S. nemoralis, though very distinct and alpine. 
Solidago *Cahfornica; villous and cinereous; leaves nearly all equal and 
somewhat crowded, oblong-lanceolate and acute at each end, near the apex 
sometimes vary slightly serrulate; panicle elongated, nearly equal; scales of 
lanceolate, acute, somewhat pubescent; rays about nine; ache- 
Has. Near St. intate: in Upper California. Two to three fe 7 1igh. Discal florets about 
nine, as well as the rays. Allied to the preceding, but softly villous and acute leaved; the stem 
leaves are also nearly as large as the radical ones, about an inch or an inch and.a half long, by less 
than half an inch wide. 
Solidago * glutinosa; smooth ; above, ‘as well as ihe involucrum, viscid, with 
a yellow resin ; stem angular; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile, narrowed below, 
serrulate, acute, scabrous on the margin; panicle spiciform, simple or com- 
pound; scales of the involucrum ovate-oblong; rays about tee oblong, yeew 
_ tate and conspicuous; achenium pubescent. 
Has. On the plains of the Oregon and Wahlamet rivers, not uncommon. Allied to 8. Virga- 
Aurea, which it resembles in habit; also to the S. simplex. About two feet high, with a brown 
stem, angular above; lower leaves three or four inches long, by about half an inch wide, the radi- 
eal ones attenuated into long pela Upper p 
with an orange, varnish like resin, of a strong aroma 
the stem, bractes and involucrum indued 
ie"and rather unpleasant ae . about 
A narrow leaved variety. 
Solida yo eons oa. 
EsSinin serrated somewhat at 
very few) ontines ovate-amplexi- 
