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13. Solidago multiradiata Ait. Northern 
Golden-rod. lig, 4225. 
Solidago multiradiata Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 218. 1780. 
Stem glabrous or somewhat pubescent above, 
rather slender, 0-15’ high. Leaves firm, glabrous 
or very nearly so, the basal and lower ones spatu- 
late or oblanceolate, entire, or sparingly serrate, 
obtuse, finely reticulate-veined, 3-5’ long, 3°-9" 
wide, the upper smaller, narrower, sessile, en- 
tire; heads about 4” high, usually few in a termi- 
nal rather compact, corymbose cyme, but the in- 
florescence sometimes elongated and thyrsoid; 
bracts of the involucre thin, linear-lanceolate, 
acute or acutish; glabrous; rays 8-15, prominent, 
linear, achenes pubescent. 
Labrador and Hudson Bay to British Columbia, the 
Rocky Mountains and Colorado. July~Aug. 
Solidago decimbens Greene, of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, with broader involucral bracts is recorded from 
Mt. Albert, Quebec. 
14. Solidago pubérula Nutt. Downy 
Golden-rod. Fig. 4220. 
Solidago puberula Nutt. Gen. 2: 162, 1818. 
Minutely puberulent, or glabrous, usu- 
ally simple, rather slender, 14°-3° high, 
leafy. Stem leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
sparingly serrate or entire, I’-2’ long, ses- 
sile, or the lower petioled, basal leaves and 
sometimes the lowest ones of the stem 
spatulate, obtuse, often sharply serrate, 2’-4’ 
long, narrowed into margined petioles; 
heads about 24” high, in a terminal, often 
leafy thyrsus, the branches of which are 
spreading or ascending; bracts of the invo- 
lucre subulate, very acute; achenes gla- 
brous; heads rarely a little secund. 
In sandy soil, Prince Edward Island to 
Florida and Mississippi, near the coast and on 
sandstone rocks in the Appalachian mountain 
system, west to Tennessee. Minaret-golden- 
rod. Aug.—Sept. 
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15. Solidago stricta Ait. Wand-like or 
Willow-leaf Golden-rod. Fig. 4227. 
Solidago s-ricta Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 216, 1780. 
S. virgata Michx. Fl. Bor, Am, 2: 117. 1803. 
Glabrous throughout, slender, erect, simple, 
2°-8° high. Basal and lowest stem leaves ob- 
long, or somewhat spatulate, with few lateral 
veins, obtuse, entire, or very sparingly dentate, 
3-8’ long, 4-1’ wide, narrowed into long peti- 
oles; upper stem leaves abruptly smaller, nar- 
rowly oblong, spatulate or linear, appressed, 
the uppermost very small and bract-like; heads 
about 3” high, in a dense simple, or some- 
times branched, naked thyrsus; bracts of the 
involucre oblong, obtuse, or the inner acutish; 
achenes glabrous, or sparingly pubescent, 
In wet sandy pine-barrens, New Jersey to Flor- 
ida and Louisiana, Also in western Cuba, Aug. 
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