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SOLI DAGO (About 50 species, about 25 around New V'ork) 



INFLORESCENCE FLAT TOPPED, HEADS SESSILE 

 2-4 ft., Ivs. 3-5 veined, fragrant — graminifolia (Flat top G.) 

 1-2 ft., Ivs. 1 veined — tenuijolia (Narrowleaved G.) 



INFLORESCENCE OF AXILLARY CLUSTERS 

 Leaves narrow — caesia (Wreath G.) Stem "zigzag," often purple 



INFLORESCENCE AN EQUILATERAL PANICLE 

 Color whitish — bicolor (Silverrod) Stem pubescent 



INFLORESCENCE A ONE SIDED PANICLE (secund) 

 Leaves nearly of one kind, narrow, three veined 



2-6 ft., stem grayish, puberulent, leaves thick, heads large — altissima 



(Tall G.) 

 1-4 ft., stem glabrous below, Ivs. thin, heads small — canadensis (From 



Nfd. south) 

 2-7 ft., stem and Ivs. glabrous, leaves broader, sharply serrate, rays long — 



serotina (Late G.) 

 Lower leaves much larger, pinnately veined 



Plants low, Ivs. oblanceolate, grayish — nemoralis (Low G.) 

 Plants taller 



Stem villous, leaves thick wrinkled, rays 6-9 — riigosa (From Nfd.) 



(Rough-leaved G.) 

 Stem glabrous, Ivs. thin tapering, racemes loosely recurv'ed spreading, 



rays 4 — ulmifolia (Elmleaf G.) 

 Stem & leaves glabrous, turning red — juncea (Early G. Upper Ivs. 



entire smooth) 



Field Trip of October 27 

 Twenty-five members and friends of the club were led by 

 Mr. J. A. Allis on a very interesting and delightful trip from 

 Sterling Forest to Cedar Pond. Of as much interest as the spe- 

 cies of plants found, was the mass effect of the foliage. The oaks, 

 red, black, scarlet, white and chestnut, still held most of their 

 leaves and covered the hills with reds, browns and dull yellows. 

 Sugar maples were yellow and red, beeches were mostly brown 

 or nearly leafless, but in one of the stream valleys a group among 

 the hemlocks were a golden yellow. From the fire lookout tower 

 on Sterling Mountain the effect of the colors was especially fine. 

 On the top of the mountain it was noted that the scrub oak, 

 Qiierciis ilicifolia, had lost most of its leaves and all of its 

 fruits. The approach to Cedar Pond is over an old corduroy road 

 through a dense growth of white cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides, 

 and rhododendron with a few red spruce, Picea rubra, the 

 ground covered with fern mosses and hypnums and frequentpat- 



