Composite Jfamil?. 



Bushy Goldenrod. Solidago lanceolata. 



Found during August, growing in open, dry fields, and waysides. 



The stalk reaches about 3 feet in height ; it is leafy, and branching 

 widely, slender, and rough to the touch. Color, green. 



The leaf is like a grass blade, very narrow and long, pointed at 

 both ends, with an entire margin, and parallel veins ; the texture is 

 thin, the edge and midrib slightly rough. In color gray-green. 



The disc flowers are few, the ray flowers very short, from 10 to 18 

 in number. The heads are arranged in small flat-topped clusters. 



The branches are so nicely graduated in length that they form a 

 large-topped flowery summit to the slender stalk, the buds opening in 

 the center flrst. The green is tempered to a more perfect harmony 

 with the yellow bloom than is usual among the Goldenrods, and the cup 

 is of so yellow a hue it scarcely shows a trace of green. 



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