Solidago. COMPOSIT^E. 147 



.^. petiolaris, var., Gray, PI. -O^ight. i. 94. ,s'. CaUfomica, var., Rothrock in Wheoler Rep. 



VI 145. — S. W. Te.xas and Xow Jle.Kiro to Arizona ; same collectors. 

 S. Lindheiineriana, Si heei.e. (il)scurely puberulent and glabrate, strict, more rio-id, 



especially the broadly lanceolate or oblong more acute and frci/ner leaves : liead.-; denscly 



glomerate in an oblong spiciform tliyr.siis : involucre oblong-campanulate, its bracts more 

 ^ unequal : akenes glabrous. — Linn. xxi. 599. .s'. speciosa, var. rigidmscda. Gray, PI. Liudh. 



n.-2i->. not Torr. i Gray. — Texas, on rocky bluffs and in exsiccated beds of streams, Lind- 



heimei', Revei chon. 



■y- -I- Smithern Allcghaniaii species: leaves tlnnner, mostly ample, bright green, tapering to 

 both ends,. some of them acutely serrate: pubescence loose and somewhat hirsute. 

 S. Buckleyi, Torr. & Gi; vY. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, glabrous below ; leaves oyate-oblong 

 to oblnug-lanceolate (the larger 3 to 6 indies long) : thyrsus loose and elongated, nearly 



• naked : heads 4 or 5 lines long, mostly pedunculate : bracts of the iu\-olucre narrowly oblong 

 with rounded-obtuse green tips: akenes glabrous. — Fl. ii. 198. — Lincoln (.:o., X. Carolina, 

 Curtis. jMiddle Alabama, Bucldei/. Jasper Co., Georgia, Porter. 



^~" S. glomerata, JIkhx. Mostly glabrous up to the inflorescence: stem stout, 1 to 3 feet 

 high, leafy to the top : leaves ample, from oblong-ovate to lanceolate-oblong, acuminate (the 

 lower 5 to 12 inches long) : heads 5 or 6 lines long, in a leafy interrupted thyrsus, or often 

 ■ in remote axillary clusters, all or most of them much shorter than the subtending leaves: 

 involncral bracts oblong, obtuse : akenes glabrate. — Fl. ii. 117 ; Torr. & (irny, Fl. iM. 209. — 

 Jloist wooded sides ot the high mountains of Carolina and Tenn., especiaUy Grandfather 

 and Koan. The well-developed inflorescence hardly ever glomerate, therefore the name of 

 this most marked species is misleading. 



■" " S. spithamgea, ^L A. Ciutis. stems a span to a foot high, rough ish-pubescent, leafy to 

 the top: leaves glabrate; lower obovate-spatulate ; upper olilong (an inch or two in length), 

 acute : heads (barely 4 lines long) somewhat corymbosely glomerate at the summit, also (in 

 , cult.) in low axillary clusters : involucral bracts acute or acutish : rays short, hardly surpass- 

 ing the disk : akenes pubescent. — Gray in Am. Jour. S.i. xlii. 42 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 20S. 

 — Rocky summits of the higher mountains in X, Carolina, especiaUy on Grandfather and 

 Roan ; first coll. by Curtis. 



•1— H— -i— Boreal and montane, of difficult and uncertain limitation ; rays usually numerous. 

 •f-7- Biacts of the involucre acute. 

 *^*S. macropliylla, Prr.sn. Glabrous or a little pubescent : stem stout, 8 inches to 3 or even 

 4 feet high, leafy to or near the summit : leaves thin, ovate or the upper ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, acutely serrate; the lower (3 or 4 inches long) rounded at base or alimptly con- 

 tracted into a long winged petiole : heads (5 or 6 lines long) mostly pedunculate, few or loose 



• in the clusters, \\diich in smaller specimens form u simple oblong or racemiform tliyr>us, 

 and in the larger occupy the axils of many of the canline leaves : bracts of the involucre 

 narrowly lanceolate-linear, thin and when dry somewhat scarious : rays rather long and nar- 

 row : akenes glabrous or rarely a little pubescent at summit. — Fl. ii. 542: Gray in Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xvii. 1S7, 191. .S. thi/rsoidea, E. Meyer, PI. Lalirad. (IS:3U|, (,3 : Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. ii. 207. ."?. leiocarpa, DC. Prodr. v. 339. N. Virgaurea, Bigel. Fl. Post ed. 2, 306, excl. 

 var. .S. multiradiata , Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. u. ser. vii. 32S, not Ait. — Mountain 

 woods of X'. X'ew England, extending upward to the limit of trees, north to L Superior, 

 Hudson's Bay, and Labrador. (Approaches .^'. Virgaurea, var. leiocarpa, of E. Asia.) 



— » S. multiradiata, Ait. Villous-pubescent above or glabrate, a span to a foot or so high : 

 leaves of rather firm texture and fine venation, minutely and sparingly serrate above, some- 

 times entire ; cauline spatnlate to lanceolate, all tapering gradually to sessile base, or the 

 radical iuto a slender margined petiole : heads (mostly 4 lines long) generally few and 

 e'lomerate in a single terminal roundish or oblong compact often corymbiform cluster, occa- 

 sionally with one or tMO looser axillary clusters or Ijranches : bracts of the involucre nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, thinnish or thin-edged : rays numerous and narrow: akenes pubescent. — 

 Ait.Kew. iii. 218: Pursh, Fl. ii. 542; Hook. Fl. ii. 5. .^'. compacta, Turcz. in Bulk Mosi;. 

 1840, 73. e.x char. .?. Virgaurea, xax. arclica,'DC. Prodr. \. 239. ^'. T7;-(7am-ea, var. multi- 

 radiata. Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 207. — Labrador and Hudson's Bay to Behring Strait and 

 L'nalaska. The original high northern form very near to forms of •> Virgaurea. Bracts of 

 the involucre attenuate. On the northern Rocky Jlountains passes into 



