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6. S. odoba, Jlit. Stem partially pubescent ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 entire, smooth, pellucid-punctate, scabcous on the margin ; racemes pan- 

 iculate. Beck, Bot.p. 191. 

 Odorous, oh fraorakt Solidago. 



Stem about 3 feet high, simple, rather slender, striate, with lines of pubescence 

 decurrent from the base of the leaves. Leaves 1 or 2 to 4 or 5 inches long, and 1 

 fourth to 3 fourths of an inch wide, scarcely narrowed at base, sessile, tapering 

 loan acute point, very entire, smooth, with a conspicuous midrib, and numerous 

 pellucid punctures, minutely scabrous on the margin. Beads of flowers in secund 

 racemes, which are mostly spreading or recurved, and form a terminal pyramidal 

 panicle ; branches and pedicels slender, rough ish-pubescent ; bracts small, lance- 

 subulate; involucre smoothish, the leaflets lance-linear, rather acute, slightly 

 keeled, scarious on the margin : rays oblong, or linear-obianceolate, father con- 

 spicuous. Akenes hairy ; pappus scabrous. 



Hab. Borders of woodlands, and thickets : frequent. Ft. August-Sept. Fr. Octo. 

 Obs. Collected by Wm. Jackson, Esq. in 1829. This is a very fragrant, pleas- 

 ant species -the leaves yielding a volatile oil by distillation, and the flowers 

 making an agreeable tea. 



7. S. ulxifolia, Muhl. Stem smoothish, striate ; leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, deeply serrate, ciliate, hairy beneath ; racemes 

 paniculate; rays short. Beck, Bot. p. 190. 



Elm-leaved Solidago. 



Stem 3 or 4 feet high, often with numerous long slender branches at summit* 

 strongly striate, mostly smooth, with the branches hairy. Leaves 2 to 4 or 5 

 inches long, and 3 fourths of an inch to an inch and half wide, varying from 

 oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, tapering at base, sessile, lncised-serrate (the 

 small ones on the branches entire), scabrous-ciliate, somewhat pellucid-punctate 

 hairy beneath, especially on the midrib and veins, the upper surface sprinkled 

 with hairs, or finally smoothish. Heads of flowers in secund racemes the ra- 

 cemes often on long slender branches, which are sometimes flaccid and stran- 

 gling; branches pilose ; pedicels short, smoothish ; bracts lanceolate, subciliate ; 

 involucre smooth, the leaflets lance-oblong, rather acute ; raijs small. Akeiies 

 hairy. 



Jlab. Low grounds, woods, and thickets: frequent. Fl. Aug— Sept. Fr. Octo. 

 Obs. The leaves are somewhat variable in form ; but I have seen none which 

 would have suggested to me the name of ulmifolia. It is, however, the S. ulmi- 

 folia of Muhlenberg's Herbarium. 



8. S. patula, Muhl Stem smooth, angular-striatc ; leaves elliptic, 

 acute, serrate, scabrous on the upper surface, smooth beneath, the radi- 

 cal ones oblong-spatulate ; racemes paniculate, spreading. Beck 

 Bot.p. 190. 



S. scabra. Florul. Cestr. p. 89. Not of Muhl. mild. &c. 

 Spreading Solibago. 



Stem 2 to 4 feet high, stout, somewhat angular and sulcate-striate, smooth, dark 

 green, or often purple, branched at .summit. Radical leaves 3 to 6 inches Jong 

 and an inch and half to 3 inches wide, somewhat crenate-serrate, with the serr* 

 tures rather appressed, subcoriaceous, very scabrous above, smooth beneath, ab 

 ruptly narrowed to a margined petiole about as long as the leaf; stem-leave* 

 gradually smaller, elliptic, acute, serrate, narrowed at base, sessile. Heads of 



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