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14. LINEAR GOLDEN ROD. 
Plate 73. Fig. 14. 
Cliarader of the Species. SoliJago linifoira. 
The Leaves are narrow, all the way of a breadth, and un- 
divided at the Edge. The Flowers, form a fimple cluf- 
ter at the head of the Stalk. 
Fig a b. 
This is a Perennial, native of the fouthern parts of Europe, and 
flowers in Auguft. The Stalk is pale and weak : the Leaves are of 
a delicate green, fomewhat paler on the under fide than on the upper. 
'The Flowers are of a feint but delicate yellow j and they are difpofed 
with a beautiful fimplicity in one fimple clufler on the top of the 
Stalk. 
13. DECURRENT, GOLDEN ROD. 
Plate 73. Fig. 15. 
Charafter of the Species, Solidago mentano. 
The Stalk is angulated : the Leaves are lanced and fawed 
at the I^dge ; they run down the Stalk for a con- 
fiderable length from the Bafe. 
Tig.i^.ab' 
This is a native of the fouth of France, a Perennial; flowering 
on the dry eft and moft expofed fpots of ground from Auguft to Odo- 
ber. The Stalk is edged, and as it were rib’d : its natural colour is. 
a feint green, but toward the ground ufually, and fometimes all the 
way up, it is ftalned with crimfon. The Leaves are of a pale, but 
not difagreeable green; and the Flowers are of a beautiful feint 
yellow 
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