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petioles, rough along the margins, downy along the veins be- 

 neath. Flowers, in showy, not crowded, spreading racemes. 



Swamps, Massachusetts to North Carolina and Georgia, 

 near the coast. 



S. neglecta.. — Stem, smooth or roughish, 2 to 4 feet high, leafy, 

 acute, mostly entire, the lower on long, margined petioles. Flow- 

 ers, in a rather dense raceme, on spreading branches, on the upper 

 side, recurved. August to October. 



Swamps and banks of running streams, New England to 

 Maryland and Illinois. 



S. arguta. — Leaves, thin, large, serrate, entire on the branches, 

 acute, the lower with margined petioles; the upper linear or lance- 

 shaped. Flowers, a greenish yellow, with 6 or 7 large rays, open, 

 spreading, in rather short and loose racemes, making an elongated 

 panicle. Stem, smooth and sharply angled. August and September. 



Open woods or moist thickets, Maine to Michigan and 

 southward. 



Beach Golden-rod 



S. sempervirens, — Color, golden yellow. Flowers, large, closely 

 bunched, in various shapes, broad or elongated, or dense and 

 thick. Stem, tall, or low and spreading. Leaves, thick, fleshy, 

 lance-shaped, smooth, entire, the lower ones slightly clasping, 

 upper smaller, less fleshy. Stout - stemmed, very leafy and 

 bushy. August to November. 



One of the handsomest of the golden-rods, because pre- 

 senting such a mass of golden color in its blossoms. Lining 

 the salt marshes on shores of Long Island bays and all the 

 Eastern States near the coast. (See illustration, p. 219.) 



S. graminifblia. — In this and the next species the flowers are 

 massed in flat corymbs instead of elongated racemes. Leaves, 

 3-ribbed, long, narrow, smooth, except for a roughness along the 

 veins and margins. Heads of flowers of a light yellow, in wide- 

 spreading masses. Plant, as a whole, pretty, and of a light, grace- 

 ful foliage. August to October. 



It grows along roadsides, and is often covered with dust. 

 2 to 3 feet high. Very common along the coast to New 

 Jersey. (See illustration, p. 221.) 



Slender-leaved Golden-rod 



S. tenuifblia Much like the preceding, but smaller, with 



slenderer leaves and branches, from 1 to ij feet high. Leaves, 



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