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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
10. SPIKY GOLDEN ROD. 
Plate 72. Fig. 10. Wild Golden Rod. 
Charafier of the Species. Solidago virga aurea dicta. 
The Stalk is jointed, and fomewhat weak and angulated : 
the Flowers fliand in fliort and clofe clufters, from the. 
middle to the top of it. 
Fig. 10. a be. 
This is a native of our own country: it is frequent on Hamp- 
Read Heath, and other dry and high grounds, flowering from 
Augufl; to 0 (flober ; the common Englifli Golden Rod : ft is two 
feet high : the Stalk is flender and yellowifh : the Leaves are of a 
dufky green : the Flowers are fmall, and of a fine gold yellow. This 
Plant is lately found to be excellent in the gravel i but only this 
fliould be ufed : the American kinds have very different qualities. 
11. NAKED GOLDEN ROD. 
Plate 72 Fig. 1 1. 
Character ot the Species. Solidago naveborafeenfis. 
The Stalk has only two or three Leaves on it, which are 
oblong : thofe from the Root are broad, and have 
Footflalks : the Flowers ftand fingly at the tops of the 
Branches, and are large and yellow. 
Fig. II, a b c. 
This is a Perennial, native of New-York and the adjacent parts 
of North-America, flowering in Autumn : its manner of grow,th and 
its afpetfl are very unlike the generality of the others. The Plant is 
fcarce more than one foot in height i the radical Leaves are oval, and 
have long red Footftalks. The Leaves on the Stalk are little more 
than films. The Flowers are large and yellow, and they ffand free 
and open. 
12. HEART- 
