CLASS XIX, ORDER II. | SOLIDAGO, 1079 
the form of some of the leaves, is very great, if not impossible, as 
their variations depend upon the more or less exposed or elevated 
situation in which they have grown, and also upon the supply of 
moisture. 
GENUS XXXVI. SOLIDA’GO.—Linn. 
Nat. Ord. Composr'ta. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. ILnvolucrum imbricated. lorets of the ray ligulate, 
imperfect, yellow, few in number. Receptacle naked. Fruit 
roundish. Pappus hairy, in a single row —Name from Solidare, 
to unite ; so called on account of its vulnerary properties. 
1. S. Vir'gaurea, Linn. (Fig. 1281.) Common Golden-rod. Stem 
erect, terminated in an erect paniculated raceme ; leaves ovate lanceo- 
late, petiolated, the lower ones elliptic, serrated. 
English Botany, t. 301.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 439.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 306.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 144. 
8. Cambrica. Stem small, flowers large, and the radical leaves 
broader. 
8S. Cambrica, Hudson.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 144. 
y- angustifolia. Leaves all lanceolate, obscurely serrated, or 
entire. 
Root long simple fibres. Stem from a few inches to three feet 
high, erect, mostly simple, angular, purplish, nearly smooth below, 
downy above, leafy. Leaves nearly smooth above, downy beneath, 
the upper ones lanceolate, serrated, or entire, the lower oblong, or 
elliptic lanceolate, serrated, all with somewhat winged footstalks. 
Inflorescence 2 terminal elongated crowded many flowered erect pani- 
culated raceme. Sracteas small, awl-shaped. Jnvolucre of mem- 
branous lanceolate oblong imbricated scales. lorets yellow, tubular, 
those of the ray about seven, ligulate, spreading, those of the disk 
with a short five-cleft limb. ruit oblong, downy. Pappus rough 
white hairs, spreading. 
Habitat —Groves, thickets, road sides in various situations. 
Perennial; flowering in July and September. 
This is an extremely variable plant, from the circumstance of its 
growing in such different soils and situations, for itis found as common 
upou low lands as on the sides of elevated mountains. It is some- 
times cultivated in groves and shaded situations, but as a border flower 
it is scarcely admissible. 
