SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Solidago. 941 
the Trent and the canal. Dr. Stokes. West side of Walney Island. Mr. 
Atkinson. Shore of the Avon, a little above the Hotwell, Bristol, be¬ 
tween the walk and the river. (Dickenson’s Dingle and Garston, near 
Liverpool; Brading, Isle of Wight. Dr. Bostock. Frequent in the salt 
marshes of Dorset. Pulteney. In salt marshes on Tyne and Wear, not 
uncommon. Mr. Winch. Banks of the Thames, between Richmond and 
Kew. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. i. 83. Sea mill-dam, Burntisland hay ; Inver- 
keithing bay. Mr. Neill. Grev. Edin. Shores of Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
On the south shore of the Teign near Combe Cellars. B. Botfield, Esq.; 
and in small bays opposite, near to Brookfield House. E.) P. Aug.—Sept.* 
Var. 2. All the florets tubular. 
Pet. 17. 12. 
About Bristol, frequent. Ray. 
(A foreign species, A. fragilis, from North America, is reported by Mr. 
Winch to have become naturalized on an island at the junction of North 
and South Tyne; and may possibly, at some future period, like many 
other plants fortuitously introduced, obtain admission into the British 
Flora. E.) 
SOLXDA'GO.f Recept. naked, pitted : Doicn hair-like: Florets 
of the circumference about five : Calyx, scales tiled, laid 
close. 
S. virgau'rea. (Stem serpentine, angular: leaves mostly sessile, 
partly serrated: flowers in crowded, downy panicles. E.) 
Var. 1. Stem branched; leaves strongly serrated. 
E. Bot. 301— Lndw. 150— Sheldr. 63— Blackw. 169— Ger. 348. 2 — Tabern. 
1260— Pet. 16. 10 —Pod. 142. 2—Lob. Obs. 159. 2, and Ic. i. 299. 1 —Ger. 
Em. 430. 2— H. Ox. vii. 23, row 1. 4. 
Var. 2. Stem branched; leaves indistinctly serrated. 
FI. Dan. 663— Kniph. 7 — Matth. 1006— Dod. 142. 1— Lob. Obs. 159. 1, and 
i Ic. i. 298. 2— Ger. Em. 430. 1— Ger. 348. 1— Pet. 16. 9— II. Ox. vii. 23. 
20 . 
From (six inches, E.) to four feet high. Lower leaves oval-spear-shaped, 
tapering into leaf-stalks, distantly serrated, but towards the point almost 
entire, rough, slightly hairy, dark green above, sea green underneath, 
with numerous reticulated veins; the upper alternate, nearly sessile, 
spear-shaped, entire, or nearly so. Flowering-branches axillary, the 
lower shorter, the upper longer than the leaves, with six to eight flowers 
on branched fruit-stalks. Flower-scales one or two on each fruit-stalk. 
Calyx, scales unequal, spear-shaped, with a green line along the back, 
and whitish, shining, membranous edges. Seeds brown, convex on one 
* Goats and horses eat it. Cows and swine refuse it. Sheep are not fond of it. Linn. 
May it not when growing in an inland situation, be depended on as a proof of the existence 
of salt springs? St. (It is not unfreq.uently gathered and sold for samphire, either by 
mistake, or from its being collected without hazard; but it is supposed not to possess the 
like detersive qualities. Called Tripolium, because, according to Dioscorides, the flower 
changes its colour thrice in one day; but no such phenomenon is observable in Our 
climate. E.) 
+ (From solidando vulnera , on account of its reputed efficacy in healing wounds, E.) 
