428 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



Corollas, tubular. A plant with minute down, 2 to 3 feet 

 high. It resembles the thoroughworts. The floWers are in 

 heads of panicled corymbs. 



Found in New Jersey, southward and westward to eastern 

 Kansas. 



36. Sweet Golden-rod 



Solidago odora has a slender stem, sometimes reclining, 2 or 

 3 feet long. Its leaves are bright green, entire, long, narrow, 

 and dotted. The panicle of flowers is small, i-sided, broad 

 and short, rather a dull yellow. When the leaves are crushed 

 they give forth a pleasant, anise-like fragrance. One variety 

 is scentless. 



Maine to Kentucky. 



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S. puberula is i to 3 feet high, with a fine, sqft hairiness 

 over the flowers, which are crowded into a dense, pyramid- 

 shaped bunch on the end of the stem. Leaves smooth, taper- 

 ing, long, entire. Plant i to 3 feet high. 



From Maine to Yirginia, near the coast. 



38. Slender-leaved Golden-rod , 



S. tenuifhlia is one of the most delicate and graceful of the 

 golden-rods, although so common as almost to be called a 

 weed. It is low, or tall. Its flowers grow in little buttons 

 or clusters, all of which together make a flat-topped corymb. 

 The numerous leaves are long, thin, narrow. 



Range from Massachusetts to Illinois and southward, especially 

 near the coast. 



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S. stricta, with its tall, wand-like stem, is found in the New 

 Jersey pine barrens and southward. It is smooth, but very 



