GENUS 22. 
10. Solidago macrophylla Pursh. Large- 
leaved Golden-rod. Fig. 4222. 
Solidago macrophylla _Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 542. 1814. 
Solidago thyrsoidea E. Meyer, Pl. Lab. 63. 1830. 
Stem striate, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, 
stout, 6’-4° high. Leaves thin, ovate, acuminate, 
or the basal ones obtuse, sharply serrate, glabrous 
or sparingly pubescent beneath, 3’-5’ long, 1'-23’ 
wide, abruptly contracted into margined petioles, 
or the uppermost lanceolate, entire, sessile; heads 
4”-6” high, in a terminal compact or loose thyrsus 
and usually also in axillary clusters; bracts of 
the involucre linear, acute; rays 8-10, linear-ob- 
long, conspicuous; achenes glabrous or nearly so. 
In rocky woods, Catskill Mountains, N. Y., and 
Greylock Mt., Mass., to Newfoundland, Labrador, 
Hudson Bay and Lake Superior. Ascends to 4000 ft. 
in the Adirondacks. July—Sept. 
_ Solidago calcicola Fernald, a related plant found 
in Maine and Quebec, has smaller heads, 3”—4” high, 
and pubescent achenes. 
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11. Solidago Lindheimeriana Scheele. 
Lindheimer’s Golden-rod. Fig. 4223. 
Solidago Lindheimeriana Scheele, Linnaea 21: 599. 
Scabrous, simple, 14°-3° high, leafy, rather 
stout and rigid. Leaves oblong, oblong-lanceo- 
late or oval, acute or acutish at the apex, nar- 
rowed or rounded at the base, all entire, thick- 
ish, rough on both surfaces, sessile or the lowest 
petioled; heads about 3” high, in a terminal, 
often short thyrsus; bracts of the involucre 
acute or the outer obtuse, puberulent; achenes 
nearly glabrous. 
Aug.-Nov. 
12. Solidago Citleri Fernald. Cutler’s Al- 
pine Golden-rod. Fig. 4224. 
Solidago Virgaurea alpina Bigel. Fl. Bost. Ed. 2, 307. 
1824. 
Solidago Cutleri Fernald, Rhodora 10: 87. 1908. 
Glabrous, or somewhat pubescent; stems simple, 
often tufted, 3’-12’ high, ascending, or erect, angu- 
lar. Basal leaves obovate, or broadly spatulate, ser- 
rate with low sharp or blunt teeth, at least above the 
middle, obtuse, or acute, 2’-4’ long, narrowed into 
petioles; stem leaves few, oblanceolate, spatulate, 
or oblong, sessile, or the lower petioled, mostly dis- 
tant; inflorescence a short raceme or thyrsus, and 
often with clusters of heads in the axils of the 
leaves; heads 3-4” high, over 30-flowered; bracts 
of the involucre obtuse to acute; achenes hirsute. 
Alpine summits of the mountains of Maine, New 
Hampshire, Vermont and northern New York, mostly 
above timber line. Referred, in our first edition, to the 
European S. alpestris Waldst. & Kit., which it resembles. 
Aug.—Sept. 
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Southern Kansas to Texas and northern Mexico. 
Solidago Bigelovii A. Gray, another southwestern 
species, which is rougher than this, with oval or ob- 
long leaves obtuse or obtusish at both ends, is re- 
ported from Kansas, probably erroneously. 
