Xo. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 381 



Golden-rod. 



Common. Fields, roadsides and fence-rows. Aug. — Sept. 

 A handsome and well-marked species. 



Solidago serotina Ait. (late). 



Rare, occasional or local. IMoist places, often in alluvial 

 soil. July — Aug. 

 Solidago serotina Ait., var. gigantea (Ait.) Gray (gigantic). 



Occasional or frequent. Low fields and thickets and bor- 

 ders of swamps. Aug. — Sept. 



Solidago rigida L. (stiff). 



Rare or local. Dry fields and open woods : Stonington 

 and Mansfield (Graves), Andover (Mrs. C. S. Phelps), East 

 Lyme (Miss A. M. Ryon, Graves), Guilford (G. H. Bart- 

 lett), Branford (O. Harger), East Haven and Brookfield 

 (Harger), Milford (Bissell), Stratford (Eames). Monroe 

 (H. C. Beardslee), Norwalk (E. H. Baldwin). Aug.— Oct. 



Solidago graminifolia (L.) Salisb. (grass-leaved), var. Nut- 



tallii (Greene) Fernald. 

 Solidago lanccolata Gray's Manual ed. 6 in part. 

 Enthamia grmninifolia Britton's Manual in part. 



Frequent or common. Moist ground, usually in rich soil, 

 and in swamps. Aug. — Sept. 



Solidago tenuifolia Pursh (narrow-leaved). 



Enthamia caroliniana of American authors in part, not Greene. 

 Enthamia tennifolia Greene. 



Dry or moist fields. Common in southwestern Connecti- 

 cut ; occasional or local elsewhere. Aug. — Oct. 



Sometimes troublesome to farmers as a weed in pastures. 



BOLTONIA L'FIer. 

 Boltonia asteroides (L.) L'Her. (aster-like). 

 Boltonia. 



Rare. Roadsides, waste ground and rocky woods : Thomp- 

 son (Weatherby & Bissell), Hartford (A. W. Driggs). Meri- 

 den (R. W. Woodward & Andrews). Sept. Introduced from 

 the West. 



A good plant for hardy borders and often cultivated for 

 ornament. 



