b Seats SSR nt a? oe Se et SR ae oe Ce mn ae een ee a a 
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prominent; rays 8-9, scarcely longer than the 10-12 flowers of the disk ; 
= nia puberulen 
. SPECT sia ae D. C. Eaton, King’s Rep., v. 5, p.154. Stem stout, 
“Ws hig ; lower and radical leaves bi roadly oblanceolate, 8/-12/ long, 
4/-14’ wide, the petiole e dilated a e base, upper ones sessile, lanceo- 
late; panicle oblong, densely inty flowered heads rather large, invo- 
lucral seales oblong-linear, mostly obtuse ; flower rs of the ray 12-15, of 
ie the disk about 20.—The affinities of this plant seem to us to connect it 
- rather with 8. i sive than S. Guiradonis.—Glen Eyrie, Porter. Cation 
City, Brande 
SoLIDAGO PuUMILA, 7. & G. pl glabrous and somewhat 
resinous ; stems 4/-9/ hij gh, very many from a stout under oboe wood 
caudex ; leaves crowded, narrowly lance tists strongly 30 rved, very 
acute and somewhat mucronate, the radical ones 2/—-3’ long B30 ide, 
narrewed into a short petiole; heads sessile in little clusters, which are 
arranged in a dense fastigiate corymb; involucres cylindrical-oblong, 
the closely imbricated scales carinate, ovate or oblong, obtuse, with 
scarious margins and appressed, s scarcely herbaceous tips, rather obtuse ; 
rays 1-3; disk flowers ar achet nia glabrous.—Colorado, Vasey. 
IDAGO RIGIDA, L., var. HUMILIS, Porter. Stems 12 1-18! h high, slen- 
; der; cauline leaves isn leugecatate: mostly acute, very scabrous; 
heads of flowers smaller; scal f the involucres narrower. —Rather 
frequent. Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. Porter ; Coulter. Nese 
D Ne Dr. Smith. 
SOLIDAGO NEMORALIS, Ait. Very variable, presenting in the Rocky 
Roticain region a great diversity of forms, among which the most 
conspicuous is 
A Var. MOLLIS, Bartl. (?) Fl. N. Am., v.1, p. 229. Stem-leaves obovate or 
oval, crowded, often 2/-24/ long, 1/-1}’ broad; low, about 1° high, rather 
stout; branches of the panicle uch “contracted or somewhat spreading ; ‘ 
reece a larger.—Platte River near Denver, Dr. Smith. Twin Lakes, 
Coulte 
SoLtipaco Missourrensis, Nutt.—Hall & paneer 249, Eastern 
pains 0 Of Colorado, Dr. Smith. Nea r Denver, Por 
LIDAGO ea oar L.— Wet freeads! Valley) Brandegee. Eagle 
River, cog 
SOLIDAGO LANCEOLATA, T. & G. rag & Harbour, 247. Cafion City, 
Brondiagee. On the Platte, Dr. Sm 
SOLIDAGO OCCIDENTALIS, T. & rae Very near the last, but differs 
in its “a more eres ge™ and less_corymbose inflorescence ; flowerin ng 
he 
linear; heads of flo wers f pstiootints scales of the involucre Joona im- 
bricated. Some of its forms, however, appear to approach S. lanceolata 
too closely.—Georgetown, Dr. Smith. 
BiseLovis! Fa alee oo Am. Acad., v.8, p. 641 (Linosyris. How- 
(Linosyris, Lobe ated mrepagenern Bee Heads 5-many-flow- 
ered the Cyeltow) a all tubular an perfect. Inv! obconie or campanulate ; 
what rigid and ecarinate scales imbricated >. apiece series; the inne 
pertion oblo ar nga 
Achenia oblong, villous or pubescent, sometimes glabrous. Pappus of copious unequa 
Scabrous capillary kstaseag Perennial herbs or suffruticose plants, branchec 1 trom the 
ry sub-paniculate at the summit, often pecomnr an 
¢ but cnpleniant 0 odor; leaves linear or lanceolat e. 
