328 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES 



fastigiate, subcorjmbose; bractes linear; involucrum nearly smooth, scales 

 ovate; rays about seven, oblong, as long as the disk; achenium pubescent. 



Hab. In the Eocky Mountain range, near Lewis' River of the Shoshonee. About a span high, 

 with a large, black, almost woody root. Stem leaves small, radical ones about one and a half 

 inches by half an inch wide; scales of the involucrum unusually broad, pubescent on the margin, 

 rays conspicuous. Apparently allied to S, nemoralis, though very distinct and alpine. 



Solidago * Calif ornica; villous and cinereous; leaves nearly all equal and 

 somewhat crowded, oblong-lanceolate and acute at each end, near the apex 

 sometimes very slightly serrulate; panicle elongated, nearly equal; scales of 

 the involucrum lanceolate, acute, somewhat pubescent; rays about nine; ache- 

 nium pubescent. 



Hab. Near St. Barbara, in Upper California. Two to three feet high. Discal florets about 

 nine, as well as the rays. Allied to the preceding, but softly villous and acute leaved; the stem 

 leaves are also nearly as large as the radical ones, about an inch or an inch and a half long, by less 

 than half an inch wide. 



Solidago * glutinosa; smooth; above, as well as the involucrum, viscid, with 

 a yellow resin ; stem angular ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile, narrowed below, 

 serrulate, acute, scabrous on the margin; panicle spiciform, simple or com- 

 pound; scales of the involucrum ovate-oblong; rays about ten, oblong, biden- 

 tate and conspicuous; achenium pubescent, 



Hab. On the plains of the Oregon and Wahlamet rivers, not uncommon. Allied to S. Virgu- 

 Aurea, which it resembles in habit; also to the S. simplex. About two feet high, with a brown 

 stem, angular above; lower leaves three or four inches long, by about half an inch wide, the radi- 

 cal ones attenuated into long petioles. Upper part of the stem, bractes and involucrum indued 

 with an orange, varnish like resin, of a strong aromatic and rather unpleasant taste. Rays about 

 eight to ten ; discal florets about five or six ; pappus of the rays a little shorter. 



Solidago limonifolia. A narrow leaved variety. 

 Hab. Coast of Upper California, near St. Barbara. 



Solidago multiradiata; v. s. in Herb Schweinitz, from Labrador. It appears 

 to be a depressed specimen of S. leiocarpum, Decand. The only important 

 difference is that the sepals are somewhat wider; the achenium is equally 

 smooth. 



Solidago * corymhosa; lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrated somewhat at 

 the apex, scarcely ciliate, the cauline leaves (very few) entire, ovate-amplexi- 



