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Carolina. A stout species, three to four feet high, allied to S. serotina, but with a cuneate leaf, 

 and pubescent achenium. 



Solidago *elongata; stem puberulous; leaves oblong-lanceolate, cuneate, 

 acute, sparingly and irregularly serrate, scabrous on the margin, below ob- 

 scurely three-nerved; panicle elongated; racemes erect, or somewhat recurved; 

 rays narrow, as long as the disk, ten to sixteen; achenium pubescent. ^. Leaves 

 longer, and the racemes more secund. 



Hab. Wappatoo Island and the plains of the Oregon. Remarkable for the great elongation of 

 the panicle, often half a foot long, narrowly pyramidal, three to four inches wide in the widest 

 part. Rays very narrow, numerous, two-toothed; discal florets eight to twelve; pedicels and 

 rachis pubescent. Receptacle deeply alveolate. It has the aspect of S, puberula, but the stem is 

 very slenderly and minutely pubescent. 



Solidago Missoiiriensis; (Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. V., p. 7.) 

 Rocky Mountains. From specimens which I obtained since publishing this 

 species, I find that it belongs to the first section of the genus, having the lower 

 leaves three-nerved, often distantly serrulate, and the whole plant, with its 

 thickish polished leaves, perfectly smooth, though a little scabrous on the mar- 

 gin. Discal florets about twelve, rays ten, shorter than the disk. Achenium 

 slightly pubescent. 



Hab. Missouri, Arkansas, the Rocky Mountains, and near Chapel-Hill, North Carolina. 



Solidago radula; (Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Vol. VII., p. 102.) 

 Arkansa. This species has some af&nity with S. rugosa, but the leaves have 

 no rugosity, and are cuneate-oblong, above ovate-lanceolate, the lower serrated 

 distantly towards the apex. Scales of the involucrum oblong-ovate, very 

 smooth and brownish. Rays about six, the length of the disk. Nearly allied 

 to the S. scahrida, Dec and. 



'^^ Racemes erect. 



Solidago hirsuta; (Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. VII., p. 103.) Very 

 similar to S. hicohr, but the rays are yellow and smaller, and the leaves lanceo- 

 late or oblonor-lanceolate. 



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Solidago * nana; somewhat cinereous and pulverulently pubescent, dwarf, 

 many stems from the same root; lower and radical leaves spathulate, obtuse^ 

 entire, or subserrulate at the apex, stem leaves linear, narrowed below ; ramuH 



