Solidago. CeijIPOSIT^. 145 



soil, especially in pine barrens, X. Carolina to Florida, Kansas, and Texas, The specific 

 name quite inappropriate; and the sijuarro^t* tijis of the hraets are sometimes obM. lete, thus 

 invalidating tlie rather mai-ked character of this group. 

 ■""' " Var. angUSta, Gray. Leaves greener, glabrate, narrower, nearly all entire : the 



• lower s>.'iiienmes 3 or 4 inches long and half-inch or le?s wide, tapering into a margined 

 petiole. — Proc. Am. Aead. xvii. IS'.i, >. aiKjiisIa, Torr, i Gray, i'l. ii. i04. — "W. Louisiana, 

 Hale, and Fredericks! lurg, Texas, Tlnirhir. 



* * Involucre of inappendiculate and wholly appressed bracts in this and all the folK>wing 

 divisions: head> small (at most 3 lines long), disposed more or les^ in axillary glomerate or 

 short-racemiform clusters along the leafy stem, or not rarely with some or nio^i of the clusters 

 in an almost naked thy^^us; leaves lancostate. pinnately veiny. — i.iLO.ML:BULiFLe»R.E, Terr, 

 i Gray. 



■i— Akeues canescently hirsute-pubescent : leaves normally tliin and membranaceous, very sharply 

 serrate, acuu.inate, bright green, usually surjiassiug the short cluster^ in their axils, except 

 where these become contiuent into a thyrsus at the summit. 



+-(- Sti-in and branches terete, often glaucous. 



' S. CEesia, X.. Slender, commonly branching and glabrous or nearly so up to the peduncles, 

 smooth, a foot or two high ; lea\ es lanceolate or the lower from ovate- to oblong-Lmceolate, 

 sessile, serrate «-ith erect or ascending teeth, the venation not prominent : heads small, few- 

 flowered; bracts of the involucre all obtuse. — Spec. ii. 879 (founded on DID. Elth. 414, 

 t, 307, & 17/(/ii-(iwreo Miirilandicii, etc., Ray) ; Ait. Kew. iii. 217 ;-T..rr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 199. 

 .^'. ii.xicai(li{^. L. 1, c, as to herb., exel. char. & syn. — bluelcJ banks, or in wooded grounds, 

 Canada to X. W. Arkansas, Georgia, and Texxs, 



Var. axillaris, Gkay, Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. (>. arillaris, Pursh, Fl. ii. 542), is a 



* common form in shade, with elongated-lanceolate thin leaves, all much exceeding the short 

 clusters of rather few heads. — Chiefly northern, in wood?. 



Var. paniculata, Gray, 1. c. Paniculately branched above, smaller-leaved, flori- 

 biind ; the clu>Ters of heads becoming racemose-paniculate toward the end of the braiKbes; 

 • stems often purple and branchlets occasionally pubescent. — > gracilis, Poir. Diet. ^iii. 47C ; 

 PC. Prodr. v. 336. S. Siliraderi. IK'. 1. c. ? (abnormal form). & of the Gardens. .?. arrjuta, 

 S]irens. Svst., not Ait. S. anjcntea, Hornem. ex Spreiiu. — A form of drier and open 

 aroiuids, commoner in S t-t.ite^, and of European cultivation, where it is much altered, and 

 appears to ]ia?s into 



S, REcrRv.\T.v, Willd. Enuin. SS9 (not Mill. Piet.). Tall, more pauicnlate, and the heads 

 in racemoselv crowded clusters on spvoadiug (but hardly recurved) or ascending flowering 

 branches, few if any in the axils of cauliue lea\es : usually some puleseence. — European giu- 

 dens, !May he a hybrid between .S. casia and >'. iilmifolia or •>. n/'?e«(i. 



S. LiriDA, Willd. I.e. 491. Stouter, purple-sterameil, with thyrsiform-paniculate inflores- 

 cence of more crowded heads : apparently a cultivated modification of ^. cii.<ia. var. paniculala, 

 with a laree-flowered indigenous form of which (from MonticeUo, Georgia, Purler) it is congru- . 

 ous. It is^.> riiilxllata, S^hrader ex Spreiig. (i', aiyula. Spreug.l. and >.Jiabelliforn,is, Wendl. 

 in DC. Prodr. > . 336. 



j-i. j-i. Stem and branches angled, manifestly so in dried specimens, green, not glaucous. 



S. latifolia, L. stem much angled, often flexnous. glabrous. 1 to 3 feet high: leaves ample 



and normally thin, broadly ovate or the upper ovate-lanceolate, conspicuously acuminate, 



abruptly and" acumiuately contracted at base into as it were a winged petiole of usually about _ 



the len'o-th of the axilhuv clusters, mostly jiikise^-pubesceut beneath, thickly and coai-fely 



serrate with salient subulate teeth : rtiys 3 or 4 : disk-flowers 6 or 7 : aki-ms \ ery hirsute. — 



Spec, ii. S79 (ex herb, i habitat, excl. syn. Pluk.) ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 19S. f fl'Timiii,/, 



L. 1. c. ex svn. & char, (not of herb.) ; Ait. Kew. iii. 217; DC. Prodr. v. 33j. .^. jlexicaulis, 



var. latir'o'ia. ^iUd. Spec. iii. 2ii64. .?. macrophi/lla. Bigel. Fl. Bost, ed- 2. -jOo, not I'lush. — 



iloist woods and shaded banks. Xova Scotia to Mrnuesora. south to Missouri and along the 



mountains to Tennessee and Georgia. In ^'rounds exposed to the sun. the clusters of heads 



are often extended and s]iieiform, or the whole inflorescence becomes a terminal thyrsus. 



-S. lancifolia. Tore. & Gray. Xearly glabrous: stem strict and ?tout, 3 or4 feet high, 



sulcato-angled : leaves elongated-hmceolate or the lower broader, sessile by a graduaUr nar- 



'* rowed entire base, above sharply serrate with the teeth ascendiug. 4 to S inches long : heads 



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