456 8 YNGENESI A [ Asteroid** 



Frixgf.d Solidago. 



Stem 2 to 3 feet high, angular-striate, smooth, often purple. Radical leaves 4 to 

 6 or 8 inches long, and an inch and half to near3 inches wide, elliptic, acuminate, 

 sharply serrate, smooth, subcoriaceous, tapering at base to a margined ciliate 

 petiole 2 to 3 or 4 inches long; stem leaves varying from elliptic-lanceolate to 

 linear-lanceolate, Scuminate, subserrate, scabrous on the margin, narrowed at 

 base to a short margined petiole. Heads of flowers insccund paniculate racemes; 

 branches and pedicels smooth ; bracts linear-oblong, mostly ciliate, especially near 

 the base ; involucre smooth ish, the leaflets lance-oblong, rather obtuse ; rays about 

 as large as in No. 2. Akenes somewhat pubescent. 

 Hob. Meadows, fields, and woods : frequent. Ft. August. Fr. September. 



Obs. The species inserted in my Catalogue, under the name of "S. pyramid. 

 alu ? " is, I believe, not distinct from this. 



* * Leaves veined. 



4. S. altissima, L. Stem hirsute; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acumin- 

 ate, serrate, rugose-veined, very scabrous ; racemes spreading, or recur- 

 ved- Beck, Bot.p. 189. 



5. rugosa. FloruL Cestr. p. 89. Also, Willd. Pursh, Ell &c. 



Highest Solidago. 



Stem 3 to 6 or 7 feet high, striate, roughly pubescent, often dark purple. Leave* 

 1 to 3 or 4 inches long, and half an inch to an inch and half wide, varying from 

 lance-oblong to ovate, acute, or acuminate, irregularly serrate, rugose and rough, 

 hirsute on the veins beneath, sessile. Heads of flowers in secund spreading ra- 

 comes, branches often recurved, and, with the pedicels, pubescent; bracts small, 

 lance-oblong, scabrous-ciliate ; involucre smoothish, Uie leaflets linear-oblong, 

 rather obtuse ; rays short. Akenes pubescent. 



Hob. Low grounds ; borders of thickets : frequent. Fl. Aug— Sept. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. This presents several varieties,— of which the S. rugosa, of Authors, Is a 

 very common one. 



5. S. xbmoralis, Ait. Stem subtomentose ; radical leaves somewhat 

 cuneatc, crenate-serrate, petiolate, cauline ones oblanceolate, nearly 

 entire, roughish-pubesccnt ; racemes paniculate. Beck, Bot. p. 1 90. 



Wood, or Grove Solidago. 



Whole plant of an ash-colored or greyish aspect,— being clothed with a short 

 cinereous pubescence. Stem 1 to 2 or 3 feet high, striate, simple, or corymbosoly 

 branched above, (in stunted specimens often much branched from near the base). 

 Radical leaves 1 to 4 or 5 inches long, and half an inch to an inch and half wide, 

 varying from lance-oblong to spatulate and obovate, coarsely and sparingly cren» 

 ale-serrate, tapering at base to a. petiole 1 to 3 inches long ; stem-leaves narrower! 

 obovate-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, roughish-puberulent, tapering at base almost 

 to a petiole, entire, or obscurely serrate, the lower ones sometimes distinctly ser- 

 rate. Heads of flowers in secund racemes, often corymbose-paniculate, with the 

 branches recurved (in stunted branched specimens often in small axillary clus- 

 ters); involucre smoothish, the leaflets lance-oblong, obtuse, minutely ciliatepi- 

 bescent on the margin ; rays rather short, spatulateoblong. Akenes pubescent 

 with white hairs. 



Hub. Sterile old fields, and borders of woods : frequent. FL Aug-Sept. Fr. Octo . 



