CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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with scarious margins and acute or acuminate tips; achenes 
pubescent or nearly smooth. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 208. 
Abundant; dry fields, roadsides, and among rochs, especially 
in the southern part of the Island. Also found on the moun¬ 
tains, distinct, or imperceptibly passing into the next variety. 
Frenchman Camp; Seal Harbor (K. & E.); — Sea wall. Long 
Pond; Northeast Harbor; Southwest Harbor; The Cliffs, Seal 
Harbor; Hunters Beach Head; Long Pond meadows; Sargent 
Mt.; DogMt.; Pemetic Mt.; Western Mt.; Great Cranberry 
Isle, etc. (Band). 
Var. monticola, Porter. S. pubenda, Nutt., var. monticola, 
Porter, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xix. 129. 
Stems 3'-12' high, often slender; inflorescence a short, com¬ 
pact, or sometimes loose thyrse, 2'-4' long; heads lJ"-3" long; 
scales of the involucre variable, ovate and bluntish or oblong 
and obtuse, inner ones not elongated. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 
XX. 209. Common on mountain summits, and occasionally at 
lower altitudes, even at the sea level. Sargent Mt.; Pemetic 
Mt. ; Jordan Mt.; Western Mt.; Dog Mt.; Hunters Beach 
Head; Seal Harbor; Great Cranberry Isle (Band). 
Var. Eedfleldii, Porter. 
Very glutinous; stems stout and rigid, 16'-18' high; leaves 
thickish or coriaceous; branches of the panicle starting from 
half-way down the stem or even from the base, strict, erect, 
bearing short clusters of heads in the upper bracts; beads small, 
2"-3" long; scales of the involucre short, more or less scarious. 
Its inflorescence is strikingly like that of S. juncea, Ait., var. 
ramosa, Porter & Britt. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 209. Bare. 
Seal Harbor, etc. (Eedfield);—foot of Western Mt.; Great 
Cranberry Isle (Band). 
S. sempervirens, L. Sea Golden Rod. ^ 
Frequent on sea cliffs; common in salt or brackish marshes, , 
and on muddy beaches. ^ ^ 
and on muddy beaches. ^ ^ 
% S, puberula, Nutt. 
Dry, open ground, and by waysides; common; — less frequent 
in woods. Very variable in form of inflorescence, etc. A form 
