COMPOSITAE. Vor. III. 
31. Solidago Elliéttii T. & G. Elliott’s 
Golden-rod. Fig. 4243. 
Solidago Elliottti T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2: 218. 1841. 
Solidago elliptica Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 376. 
1824. Not Ait. 1789. 
Stem glabrous, or minutely puberulent 
above, stout, 3°-6° high, simple, or branched 
at the inflorescence. Leaves firm, oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, rarely ovate-oblong, acute 
or acuminate, sessile by a broad base, or 
sometimes narrowed below, finely serrate, 
crenate-serrate, or the upper entire, rough 
on the margins, pinnately veined, glabrous on 
both sides, or puberulent on the veins be- 
neath, 17-5’ long, 4”-12”" wide; heads about 
3” high, more or less secund on the short, 
_ spreading or recurving branches of the nar- 
row panicle; bracts of the involucre linear- 
oblong, obtuse; rays 6-12, short; achenes pu- 
bescent. 
In swamps, Nova Scotia (?), Massachusetts 
to North Carolina and Georgia, mainly near the 
coast. Sept.—Oct. 
32. Solidago neglécta T. & G. Swamp 
Golden-rod. Fig. 4244. 
Solidago neglecta T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2: 213. 1841. 
Stem glabrous, or slightly rough above, simple, 
rather stout, 2°-4° high. Leaves firm, the basal 
and lower ones lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
large, sometimes 12’ long, acute or acutish, closely 
serrate or serrulate, tapering into margined peti- 
oles, rough on the margins; upper leaves smaller, 
lanceolate, acute, sessile, serrate or nearly entire; 
heads about 23” high, more or less secund on the 
short branches of the thyrsoid panicle; rays 3-8, 
small; bracts of the involucre thin, linear-oblong, 
obtuse; achenes glabrous, or nearly so. 
In swamps and bogs, Maine to Vermont, Michigan, 
Maryland, Illinois and Wisconsin. Recorded north 
to New Brunswick. Forms with the heads little 
secund resemble S. uliginosa. Pyramid-golden-rod. 
Aug.—Sept. 
33. Solidago uniligulata (DC.) Porter. 
Few-rayed Golden-rod. Fig. 4245. 
Bigelovia (?) uniligulata DC. Prodr. 5: 329. 1836. 
Solidago linoides T. & G. Fl, N. A. 2: 216, 1841. 
Not Soland. 
Solidago neglecta var. linoides A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 8: 
Part 2. rg4. 1884. 
S. uniligulata Porter, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 320. 18094. 
Stem simple, slender, 13°-23° high, glabrous, or 
slightly pubescent above. Leaves firm, obscurely 
pinnately veined, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
finely and sharply serrate, acute or acuminate, the 
lower long-petioled, 4’-9’ long, 4-9” wide, the 
upper sessile, the uppermost very small and erect; 
heads about 2” high, densely secund on the short 
spreading or recurving branches of the small 
naked panicle; rays 1-4; bracts of the involucre 
firm, linear-oblong, obtuse; achenes glabrous. 
In bogs and swamps, Newfoundland to New York, 
New Jersey, Ontario and Illinois. Aug.—Sept. 
