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FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT. 
Brook Notch; Beech Mt. Notch; and elsewhere (Rand); — path 
to Bubble Pond; path to Newport Pond ; Hadlock Valley 
(Eedfield); — Dog Mt., in dry, open ground (Rand). 
S. bicolor, L. White Golden Rod. 
Roadsides and fields: common. 
Var. concolor, T. & G. 
4c- 
Roadside, south of High Head. The plant, however, is not 'Pi^, 
a very well marked form of this„variety. /P iJjUdC^) . 
Stem erect, sparingly branched, 4'-24'high, glabrous or pubes¬ 
cent with curled hairs; leaves linear or lanceolate-oblong, l'-4' 
long, obscurely toothed, obtuse or acute; heads crowded, 4" long, 
shortly peduncled, golden yellow; bracts of the involucre linear, 
acute, glabrous, green, margins scarious; ray flowers 10-12, 
spreading; disk flowers 10-20; achene pubescent, pappus white. 
Hooker, FI. Brit. Isles, 205. (See also Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 
207.) Hio, Southwest Harbor; foot Pemetic Mt.; Great Cran¬ 
berry Isle; path on Jordan Mt.; Frenchman Camp road (Rand); 
— Seal Harbor (R. & R.). This Island form is very like var. 
angustifolia, Gaud., and var. ericetoi'um, DC., of the Old World, 
with lower leaves oblong lanceolate, long petioled, and upper 
leaves narrower. There are other forms, with narrower, thinner 
leaves, approaching S. humilis, Pursh, but hardly to be placed 
under that species. Seal Harbor (Redfield); —foot of Western 
Mt.; Great Cranberry Isle; Dog Mt.; east peak of Western Mt.; 
Frenchman Camp road (Rand). 
^ Var. Randii, Porter. 
More or less glutinous; stems stout, erect, l°-2° high, often 
dark purple, puberalent, or sometimes glabrate below; radical 
and lower leaves obovate or oblanceolate, acute, seriate,— cauline 
lanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, sparingly serrate or entire, 
glabrous; inflorescence an ample branched panicle or loose 
virgate thyrse; heads 3" or more long; outer scales of the 
involucre mostly ovate or lance-ovate and bluntish, sometimes 
almost linear and acute, inner ones oblong-linear, yellowish, 
