160 COMPOSITE. Solidago. 



narrowed base: cyme fastigiate : heads pedicellate, small (3 lines long), narrow, 16-24- 

 flowered: bracts of the involucre narrower : rays 6 to 9, small: akenes slightly 5-nerved. — 

 Synop. 57; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. — Low prairies or meadows, W. New York to Ohio and 

 Indiana; first coll. by Riddell. 



•1— +- Leaves somewhat conduplicate ; lower slightly triplinerved. 



S. Ridd^llii, Frank. Glabrous and smooth, or the inflorescence puberulent : stem a foot 

 or two high, very leafy: leaves elongated-lanceolate, entire; radical 8 to 12 inches long, 

 attenuate at both ends ; cauline rather long, erect at the base which nearly sheathes the 

 stem, partly conduplicate above, and the upper part falcately arcuate : heads densely cymose, 

 3 or 4 lines long, 20-30-flowered : rays 7 to 9, small and narrow : akenes faintly 5-nerved. — 

 Riddell, Synops. 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 210. £>. amplexicaulis, Martens in Bull. Acad. 

 Brux. viii. (1841) 68. — Wet prairies, Ohio (first coll. by Riddell) to Iowa and Missouri. 

 (Also Fort Monroe, Virginia, Vasey and Chiclcering, these adventive?) 



S. Houghtoni, Torr. & Gray. Stem slender, 10 to 20 inches high : leaves indistinctly 

 nerved, rather rigid, scattered (3 or 4 inches long, 2 to 4 lines wide) : heads rather few in a 

 corymbiform cyme, 20-30-flowered : rays 7 to 10, rather large : bracts of the involucre 

 oblong-linear: akenes 4-5-nerved. — Gray, Man. ed. 1, 211, ed. 5, 242. — Swamps, north 

 shore of L. Michigan, Houghton. Genessee Co., New York, Paine. Flowering early. 



-* — -f — h — Leaves flat, smooth, and glabrous, linear or linear-lanceolate, entire, more or less tripli- 

 nerved or 3-nerved, or nervose : heads only 3 or 4 lines long. 



S. nitida, Tore. & Gray. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, very smooth except the summit and inflo- 

 rescence', which are minutely hirsute : leaves coriaceous and rigid, evidently nervose, punc- 

 tate (the larger 4 to 6 inches long, 3 to 5 lines wide) : heads numerous in the corymbiform 

 cyme, about 14-flowered : rays 2 or 3, large : bracts of the involucre narrowly oblong : akenes 

 10-nerved. — Fl. ii. 210. — Dry pine woods and barrens, W. Louisiana and Texas ; first coll. 

 by JJrummond and Leavenworth. 



S. pumila, Torr. & Gray. Dwarf, a span or more high, many-stemmed from a woody 

 branching and cespitose caudex, glabrous throughout, punctate, somewhat resinous : leaves 

 rigid, 3-nerved, acute ; radical 2 or 3 inches long : cyme glomerate-fastigiate : heads nar- 

 rowly oblong, 5-8-flowered : rays 1 to 3, short : involucral bracts rigid, somewhat carinate, 

 and with small green (sometimes mucronulate) tips : mature akenes flattish and unusually 

 broad, rather longer than the rigid pappus : akenes 5-nerved. — Fl. ii. 210. Chri/soma pumila, 

 Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 325. — Rocky dry places, N. W. Texas to S. "W. Utah, 

 Nevada, and Idaho, mostly in the mountains ; first coll. by Nuttall. 



§ 2. Euthamia, Nutt. Receptacle of the flowers fimbrillate or the alveoli 

 pilose : rays very small, almost always more numerous than the disk-flowers and 

 never surpassing them in height : heads glomerately and fasciculately cymose, 

 small : leaves very numerous, all linear, entire, 1— 5-nerved, somewhat punctate, 

 sessile : akenes villous-pubescent, short and turbinate : filiform rootstocks exten- 

 sively creeping. — Euthamia, Cass. Diet, xxxvii. 471; Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. 

 Soc, 1. c. 



* Taller and paniculately branched Pacific species. 



S. occidentalis, Nutt. Stems 2 to 6 feet high; the branches terminated by small clus- 

 ters of mostly pedicellate heads : leaves usually 3-nerved, glabrous and smooth even on the 

 midrib, and margins obscurely scabrous: bracts of the involucre rather narrow: rays 16 to 

 20: disk-flowers 8 to 14. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 226; Eaton in Bot. King Exp. 156. S. lan- 

 ceolata, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn. vi. 502 ; Hook. Fl. ii. 6, partly. Euthamia occidentalis, 

 Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. vii. 326. Aplopappus baccharoides, Benth. Bot. 

 Sulph. 24. — Moist ground, British Columbia to S. California, extending eastward to New 

 Mexico, Colorado, and Montana. — Long rootstocks tuberous-thickened at the extremity. 



# # Comparatively low, a foot or at most a yard high, cymosely much branched above and flat- 

 topped: heads mostly glomerate-sessile : Atlantic species. 



S. lanceolata, L. Leaves lanceolate-linear, distinctly 3-nerved and the larger with an 

 additional outer pair of more delicate nerves, minutely scabrous-pubescent on the nerves 



