The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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8. TORTUOUS GOLDEN ROD. 
Plate 71. Fig. 8. 
Character of the Species. Solidago flexicaulls. 
I'he Stalk is bent from Joint to Joint: the Leaves are 
oval and ferrated : the Flowers grow in flight Spikes 
from their Boioms. 
Fig. 8. ^ r. 
Tins is a North-American, a Perennial, which bears the air with 
us, and flowers in the beginning of Oftober. The Plant is two feet 
high and its Stalk not firm ; it is bowed, or knee’d as it were, 
from joint to joint, and is of a yellowifli green. The Leaves are 
of a frefli green : hut they alfo have fome tinge of yellowifli. The 
Flowers are pale yellow. 
9. BROAD LEAV’D GOLDEN ROD. 
Plate 71. Fig. 9. 
Character of the Species. Solidago latlfolia* 
The Leaves are very broad, oval, fmooth, and ferrated : 
the Stalk is robufl; : the Spikes of Flowers ftand loofe 
and free at the top, in a broad open clufter. 
Fig. 9. ai>c^ 
This alfo is a Perennial, native of North-America ; a very hand- 
fome robufl; Plant, flowering late in Autumn. The Stalk is four feet 
high, and has no Branches but near the top : the Leaves fland free 
and open; and are of a deep, but not dufley green. The Flowers 
grow on long free fpiky Stalks, crowning the head of the Plant, and 
rifing from the bofoms of the upper Leaves. 
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10. SPIRY 
