776 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. Dry open grassy pine barrens. Lee 
County, Auburn, 800 feet altitude (Harle). Escambia County, near Wilson’s Sta- 
tion. Mobile County, Bay shell road. October; not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘Middle Florida, in fertile soil, Dr. Chapman! Dr, Alexander! 
Georgia & Alabama, Baldwin! Le Conte.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solidago pallescens Mohr, sp. nov. 
Stem from a stout erect rootstock, slender, 24 to 3} feet high, simple or paniculately ' 
branched above, sparsely pubescent; radical leaves 3 to 34 inches long, ovate-oblong, 
narrowed at the base into a winged petiole; lower canline leaves ovate, attenuate 
into broadly margined petioles, acuminate, mucronulate, irregularly dentate toward 
the apex, the upper ovate to oblong, sessile, rather obtuse; rameal leaves gradually 
reduced to small bracts subtending the flowering heads, all of a firm texture, pale- 
glaucescent, particularly on the lowersurface, ciliate, with prominent midrib; racemes 
slender, erect or spreading, secund; flowering heads small, involucral bracts obtuse, 
glabrous, except on the slightly hairy margin; achenes silky-pnbescent, with a rigid 
scabrous pappus. nate 
Resembles Solidago brachyphylla, but is abundantly distinct by the pale glauces- 
cence, etc. 
Carolinian area. 
ALABAMA: Metamorphic hills. Lee County, Auburn, October, 1896 (Baker §: Hare). 
Type locality as just given. 
Solidago arguta Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 213. 1789. SHARP-SERRATE GOLDEN-ROD. 
Solidago muhlenbergit Torr. & Gray, Fl.N.A.2:214, 1842. 
Ell. Sk. 2:374. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 250. Chap. Il. 212. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 
2: 154. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario and New England, west and south to 
Indiana, Minnesota, southwestern Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and along the 
mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Damp grassy openings. Clay County, waterfall 
near Pulpit Rock, 2,200 feet, grassy swale. July, August; rare. 
Type locality: ‘‘Native of North America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solidago vaseyi nom. nov. 
Solidago arguta caroliniana Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2:155. 1884. Not Hrigeron 
carolinianus L. 
Chap. F1. ed. 3, 231. Gray, Syn. F1.N. A.1 ¢. 
Over 2 feet high; stem glabrous below, branches and inflorescence pubescent; 
leaves smooth, the radical and lower cauline ample, from 14 to 2 inches wide and 34 
to 4 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, sharply serrate, the upper lanceolate, acuminate, 
entire, all on short-winged petioles, acnte; flowering heads large, 14 or 15 flowered, 
numerous, racemose in the axils ot the leaves in short paniculate clusters; involucre 
puberulent; achenes densely silky-hairy. This plant has little in common with 
S. arguta, and is strikingly distinct by the characters noted. 
Carolinian area. Mountains of North Carolina (Roan Mountain, 5,000 feet), Ten- 
nessee, and northwestern Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coosa Hills. Wooded summits and slopes of hills. 
Cullman County, Holmes Gap, 1,200 feet altitude. Clay County, Che-aw-ha Moun- 
tain. St. Clair County, near Ashville (G@. &. Vasey). August; very rare. 
Type locality (Gray): ‘‘ Mountains of North Carolina and of adjacent South Caro- 
lina and Georgia, G. R. Vasey, J. Donnell Smith.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Solidago serotina gigantea (Ait.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 17:180. 1882. 
LARGE LATE-FLOWERING GOLDEN-ROD. 
Solidago gigantea Ait. Hort. Kew. 3:211. 1789. 
S. gigantea Willd. 3: 2056. 1804. Not Ait. 
Gray, Man, ed.6, 251. Chap.F1.214. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 2: 156. 
Boreal region to Carolinian area. Newfoundland through Canada to north latitude 
50° to the Pacific, south to Georgia, west to Texas, and across the plains to Nevada. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region? A single specimen collected by G. R. Vasey, in 
“North Alabama,” 1878. 
Type locality: ‘Native of North America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
