An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . ves clustered, lance- orspatula-shaped; upper leaves remote, small, leaving the stem nearly of flowers small in a flat-topped cluster. Southern part of ourarea. 10. SOLIDAGO, herbs, with mostly slender simple stems and alternate leavesand with numerous or few small heads of flowers, both ra\ and ttibular,mostly yellow, rarely white, in terminal clusters of various forms. Rayflowers 1 t
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . ves clustered, lance- orspatula-shaped; upper leaves remote, small, leaving the stem nearly of flowers small in a flat-topped cluster. Southern part of ourarea. 10. SOLIDAGO, herbs, with mostly slender simple stems and alternate leavesand with numerous or few small heads of flowers, both ra\ and ttibular,mostly yellow, rarely white, in terminal clusters of various forms. Rayflowers 1 to many, all pistillate. Disk flowers tubular, nearly all withboth stamens and pistils. Involucre of several series of overlapping small, not chafly. Aigrette of numerous rough bristles, in 1or 2 series. Flower heads not in one-sided (secund) clusters, but in narrow, spike-liketerminal grou()S. Heads in compact axillary clusters. Kay flowers white S. bicolor Rays yellow. Ti[)s of involucre scales turned outward or backward . S. squarrosaTips not turned outward or backward. Leaves lance-sliapcd -S. caesta Leaves egg-shaped •^ latifolia THISTLE FAMILY 64. Plate 1731. Solidago squarrosa. 2. S. liispida. 3. S. erecta. 4. S. macropliylla,Var. thjrsoides. 5. S. puberula. 6. S. stricta. 7. S. Turshii. 8. S. alpes-tris. 9. S. Virgaurea. 644 COIMPOSITAE Heads in more or less dense spike-like clusters, but not compact groupsin the axils. Wliole plant densely hairy S. hispida Plant smooth or slightly downy. Basal leaves spatula-formed, stem leaves numerous, crowded. Stem leaves sharply toothed S. puberula Stem leaves lance-shaped, nearly entire .... 5. erecta Heads Iew, not crowded S. Purshii Basal leaves oblong, stem leaves very small, linear . S. stricta Leaves all egg-shaped S. macrophylla Leaves all lance-shaped. Clusters of heads crowded, numerous. The branches of the cluster pressed toward the main axis stem S. uliginosa The branches of the clus
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