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6. SOLIDA’GO, L. Goipen-rop. 
[Latin, Solide, to unite, or make firm ; from its supposed healing virtues.} 
eads few- or ernie ger age a ray-florets few, pistillate ; disk- 
les 0 cpus penivety im ricated, 
appressed, not gree een or Fragen ve apex. le small, mostly 
naked. Akenes many-ribbed, somewhat terete ‘eres simple, con- 
sisting of alhectnn scabrous copula bristles, mostly equal. Heads 
in terminal or axillary racemes, with the _Detlicels often unilateral, 
—sometimes corymbose. Perennials, wih @ and-like stems and nearly 
sessile stem leaves, never hear eres 
1. §. nemora’lis, A:t. Stem simple or corymbosely branched above, 
clothed with a very short eee cinereous Neriesievane radical leaves 
bovate-cuneate or spatulate, tapering into a petiole , sparingly crenate- 
ine ones ate ly ish 
serrate, in 
racemes numerous, short, dense, unilateral, at length recurved-sp Dg, 
0 bose-pa iculate ; scales of ni involucre lance-oblong, obtuse, 
beseent with white ap hairs. 
Woop or Grove Sormpaeo. 
Whole plant of an ash-colored or greyish aspect, by reason of its short cinereous pu- 
bescence. Stem 1-2 or 3 feet high, sometimes branched from meer Sse 2005. 
leaves 1-4 or 5 inches thniz, with petioles -3 inches long 
and 6 - a in Bec stu nt rap 
Small axillary clus rays rather short. tspatulae-obon 
Sterile, neglected od en! borders of woods, 7 theblig hbiie the United States. 
Fl. August -Septem Fr. Oc 
Obs. Several species o f Solidago (or Golden-rod, as they are all 
named, in the vernacular tongue)—some of them much n this 
along rows, b f woods and thickets, &c. "Th : 
ll no bett eeds on a farm: but this is the one whi 
mostly intrudes upon neglected pasture grounds,—and therefore 
been selected for description, as a sam the genus. It is 
banis i as most of our native weeds are, or may be. 
8, odo’ra, Ait. The “ Sw: Iden-rod ” is found in dry soil—i 
i b a entire, linear-lanceola’ es which 
contain numerous pellucid dots of iA a pleasant odor. 
sion of the herb is used as at mulant. The oil is in 
distilled the plant, wf test See owe me purpose. : 
7. IN’ULA, L. Evecampane. 
[The ancient Latin name.] 
-flowered ; rays in a single series, astray? & numerous, li- 
near, ner nae es loosely imbricated, in : several series, chy 
or sally pa pag dierosy ele ; POPE 0 Re ret nema e- 
rennial 5 leaves often clasping ; heads 
