PL ex. cah 39. COMPOSITE, C. 232. Eurybia. 465 
Aster maritimus cceruleus Tripolium dictus, Rati Syn. 175, 2. 
Tripolium vulgare majus, et minus, Ger. em. 413, 1 et 2i 
Tripolium majus sive vulgare, et minus, Park. 673. 
Aster Tripolium, Lin. S. P. 1226. 
Sea starwort. Blue daisies. Blue camomile. 
Salt marshes ; perennial ; August aud September. 
Root fibrous , stem upright ; leaves not cut, lower leaves 
petioled; calathides large; pericline-scales slightly fringed. 
&. ftosculosa. Calathides flosculous ; rays 0. 
LVIII. 233. SOLIDAGO. Brunsfeh Golden-rod* 
Pericline ovate ; scales imbricate, oblong, lanceolate, 
unequal, pressed close, becoming spread open, edge mem- 
branaceous ; calathides radiated ; flowers all fertile ; of the 
centre funnelshape, hermaphrodite; of the rays 5 or 10, 
yellow, female; ligulae oblong, toothed; clinanthus flat, 
small, pitted, naked ; akenium roundish, hairy ; pappus 
hairlike, rough.-— Herb perennial ; calathides small, race- 
mose. 
Solidago vulgaris. Common golden-rod. 
Stem downy, generally branched; upper leaves lanceo- 
late, narrow at both ends; lower elliptical, hairy; racemes 
upright ; calathides crowded, longer than the pedtincle. 
Virga aurea, Raii Syn. 173, 1. 
Virga aurea vulgaris, Park. 542. 
Solidago Virga-aurea, Lin. S. P. 1235. 
Woods and hedges; perennial; July to September. 
Stem generally panicled ; radical leaves petioled. — For- 
merly in great esteem as an astringent and styptic herb, 
and sold dry as imported from Italy at half a crown an 
ounce; but when found to be a native of Hampstead- 
heath fell into contempt, on which change in its value Ge- 
rarde is very pleasant. 
0. dentata . Stem branched ; leaves indistinctly serrated. 
Yirga aurea, Ger. em. 430, 1. 
y. incurva. Stem simple, serpentine ; leaves lanceolate ; 
calathides spiked. 
d. paniculata. Stem simple, straight; leaves lanceolate, 
tomentose ; upper leaves rarely sessile ; lower petioled ; 
calathides panicled. 
Virga aurea montana, folio subangusto subincano, flosculU conglobatis, 
Raii Syn. 177,4. 
Solidago cambrica, Hudson FI. Angl. 367 , 
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