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witli panicle much-branclied, branches erect, much resembling 
8. juncea, Ait., var. ramosa, Porter & Britt., in clearings. 
Sunken Heath, and elsewhere (Band). A form with inflores¬ 
cence axillarj’-, much prolonged, Emery District, and elsewhere 
(Band). 
S. rngosa, Mill. 8. altissima, T. & G., non L. 
Eields, thickets, and roadsides; common. 
S. neglecta, T. & G. Swamp Golden Rod. 
Swamps, hogs, and meadows. Especially common in sphag¬ 
num bogs. 
Var. linoides (T. & G.), Gray. 
Sphagnum hogs; infrequent. Great Heath; The Heath, 0/ 
Great Cranberry Isle (Band). 
S. juncea, Ait. Early Golden Rod. 
Dry ground; common. The earliest flowering species of the”J?<’^' 
genus on the Island. A form more or less pubescent, Hio, 
Southwest Harbor (Band). A form approaching var. ramosa, 
Porter & Britt., Jordan Mt. (Band). 
S. serotina, Ait. 
Bare. Copses, Long Pond meadows (Bedfield) ; — Salisbury 
Cove (Clara L. Walley). 
Var. gigantea (Ait.), Gray. 
Copses and low grounds; frequent. A low form. Long Pond 
meadows (Bedfield). A form approaching 8. rupestris, Eaf., 
Long Pond meadows (Bedfield). 
S. 
Canadensis, L. 
Boadsides, fields, and thickets; common. 
Var. glabrata. Porter. M, 
Low, slender 2°-3° high, stems glabrous or glahrate below, ^ 
puherulent above; leaves numerous, crowded, linear-lancoolate, ' 
tapering into a long acumination, upper ones entire, lower ones t 
with a few sharp serratures, scabrous on the veins beneath; 
