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between 3: 30 and 4 p.m. and closing; at 6 p.m., shrixelling as they 

 close; stamens 12-25, their tihiments deeper pink than the 

 petals, anthers bright yellow, short; style cleft 3 of its length; 

 the 3 valves of the capsule falling on ripening, scattering the 

 rugose seeds. (The seed was not correctly figured in the Asa 

 Gray Bulletin, Dec. 1899, p. 116: the seeds of T. rngospermum 

 should have rugose lines, that of T. teretijolium should be 

 smooth.) 



It is in prime condition the last week in July. 



To distinguish the two species the following comparison is 

 given : 



T. teretijolium has long anthers, short style lobes, black, 

 shining seeds, flowers open once, from noon till 3 p.m. 



T. rugospermiim has short anthers, long style lobes, gray 

 minutely rugose seeds, flowers open once, from 3:30 till 6 p.m. 

 The two plants look much alike. The former occurs more to 

 the East, the latter, further West. 



WixoN'A, Minx. 



/^ Solidago petiolata Miller and some other golden-rods 



Kenneth K. Mackenzie 



In his various works and different editions Philip Miller 

 (1691-1771) had a very considerable number of golden-rods. 

 For a long time he did not adopt the Linnaean binomial sys- 

 tem, but in the concluding years of his life he issued two works, 

 the eighth edition of his Gardeners Dictionary published in 

 1768, and the sixth edition of his Abridgement of the Gardeners 

 Dictionary published in 1771, in which he published a number 

 of binomial names for American species of Solidago. His de- 

 scriptions are usually good. In fact compared with those in 

 Alton Hortus Kewensis they are wonderfully good. However, 

 it is evident that he did not know the species, and was much 

 perplexed by them. He himself wrote "It is very difficult to 

 settle the specifick differences of those now growing in the 

 English gardens, for of late years there has been a great number 

 of these and also of Asters raised from seeds, which have been 

 sent from North America, from whence most of the sorts here 

 mentioned originally came. But as the seeds have been gathered 

 by persons little acquainted with the science of botany, so they 



