Solidago. COMPOSITE. 143 



denticulate with spiniJose teeth, sometimes incised, some upper or fafriflf-il ones varying 

 toward linear and entire : heads more or le.ss glomerate at the end of the brauchlets, 15-35- 

 flowered, 4 or 5 lines high': bracts of the turbinate or campanulate involucre with obta.-e or 

 sometimes acutish or mucronate-acute green tips (these occasionally bearing an indistinct 

 resin, m^ gland ) : pappus oi rather rigid and very unequal bristles. — B. m,<-la i B. Moiizlcsii, 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. G.38, i J3ot. Calif, i. 31.5. Baccharis veneta. HBK. Nov. Gen. & 

 Spec. iv. 68. Llmsyrls Mfj:/ra,„(. S,-lileiht. H.n-t. Halens. 7, t. 4. Aj,h.,,np,ms discoideus, 

 DC. Prodr. v. 350. .1. ilinziesii, Torr. & Gray, I^. ii. 242. Pyrrocoma J/e,-t-V.w/, Hook. & 

 Arn. But. Beech. 351. hocomn rernonioides. Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 320. (B. tri- 

 deniata, Greene, BuU. Torr. Club, 1 c, Linosi/ris denlata, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 16, is 

 apparently a form of this, from Cedros Island off Lower California.) — Suuthern part'of 

 California (first coll. by Menzies) tu borders of Arizona. ( Jfex.) 

 . B. Hartwegi, GK.iT. Cinereouis-puberulent or glabrate, a foot or twd high : leaves from 

 _ linear to narrowly oblong, pinnatifid; the loljes 5 to 11, oblong-linear, short (only a line or 

 two long): beads smaller than in the preceding, into which it may pass. — Hemsl. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 115. — S. Arizona, Palmer (taken for B. coronipifolia in Proc. Am. Acad, 

 viii. 639), Ln:n„.,n. (ilex.) 



32. SOLIDAG-0, L. Goldex-rod. (Soh'dus and ofjo. to make solid or 

 draw together, in allusion to reputed vulnerarv properties.) — Perennial herbs 

 (one species somewhat shrubby) ; with mostly strict stems, entire or serrate alter- 

 nate leaves, the cauline sessile or nearly so, the radical tapering into margined 

 petioles (never cordate) ; the small heads tliyrsoid-rrlomerate. or sometimes 

 corymbosely cvmose, or more commonly in racemiform secund clusters ; the 

 flowers yellow, or in one species whitish in the disk and white in the ray; rarely 

 tlie rays wanting. — Gen. ed. 1, 2.53 (name from Vaill.) ; Torr. & Grav, Fl. ii. 1'.).5. 

 — A large genus, of nearly 100 species, mostly Atlantic N. American, but with 

 several Pacific species, a few ilexican or .S. American, one or two European and 

 X. Asiatic : fl. late summer and autumn. — For notes on the species in the older 

 herbaria, and a synopsis, see Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 177-199. 



S. lateeifl6ra, L. Spec. ii. 879, is A.'-ter diffusus. Ait. 



S. NovEEOHACEXsis, L. 1. c, is probably Aiiter Tartaricus, and not Xorth American. 

 Species founded on garden plants and n'.>t identified with, or obviously referable to, Xorth 

 American originals, are the following : — 



S. AMBfoiM, Ait. Kew. iii. 217, cult. 17.)9 by Jliller, of unknown source, appears to have been 

 some European form of •?. Virgaurea, although later plants cultivated imder this name may be 

 derivatives of .>'. latifolia, L. 



S. ELLfpTiCA, Ait. GlabrotLS and smooth up to the flowering branches, 2 or 3 feet high, 

 equalily leafy : leaves of rather firm texture, oval or oblong, acuminate at both ends, the larger 

 3 or 6 inches long, I5 or 2 wide, more or less serrate with fine acute teeth, somewhat veiny ■ 

 thyrsus somewhat leafy ; the heads (3 lines long) racemose-iianiculate on erect branches, little 

 or not at all secund : bracts of the involucre oblong-lanceolate, acutish or obtuse : rays 7 to 9 : 

 akenes viUous-pubescent. — Kew. iii. 214 ; UC, Prodr. >. 334 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xvil. Isi. 

 •S'. plantagine^, Desf. Cat. ed. 3, 402. — Cultivated from early times in European gardens, not 

 identified s'' b iigenous. The typical form is here taken to be that of the Banksian herbarium, 

 cult, hort -v. 1778. A second original specimen, to which the syn. JliD. Diet, belongs, is 



Var! Jllifl^ra, Gray, 1. c. Leaves of somewhat firmer texture, from oval to broadly 

 lanceolate : heads rather larger, in short or somewhat elongated and racemiform erect or 

 spreading clusters, which are mostly axillary and shorter than the leaves. — .S. latifolia, L., 

 as to Pluk. Aim. 389, t. 235, f. 4. .'?. latissimifolia, Mill. Diet. ed. 7. .?. lateriflora, Willd. 

 Spec. iii. 2057, &c., not L. nor Ait. S. fragrans, ^A'iUd. Enum. Suppl 331 , a narrower-leaved 

 form. S. verrucosa, Schrad. Hort. Goett. 12, t. 6 ■? S. Ckhir. DC. Prodr. v. 331, & perhaps 

 .?. duhia. Scop. Del. Insub. ii. 19, f. 10. — Cultivated from ante-Linn£ean times in European 

 collections, not identified in X. America, but doubtless of American origin. 



