ut its saw-edged leaves are ovate, sharply tapering to a point,
and narrowed at the base into petioles. It blooms from July to
September. Range from New Brunswick to Georgia, and west-
ward beyond the Mississippi.
During the same blooming period, and through a similar range,
our only albino, with an Jrish-bull name, the White Golden-rod, or
more properly Silver-rod (S. dicolor), cannot be mistaken. Its
cream-white florets also grow in little clusters from the upper axils
of a usually simple and hairy gray stem six inches to four feet
high. Most of the heads are crowded in a narrow, terminal pyram-
idal cluster. This plant approaches more nearly the idea of a rod
than its relatives. The leaves, which are broadly oblong toward
the base of the stem, and narrowed into long margined petioles,
are frequently quite hairy, for the silver-rod elects to live in dry
soil, and its juices must be protected from heat and too rapid
transpiration.
In swamps and peat bogs the Bog Golden-rod (S. uléginosa)
sends up two to four feet high a densely flowered, oblong, ter-
minal spire, its short branches so appressed that this stem also has
a wand-like effect. The leaves, which are lance-shaped or oblong,
gradually increase in size and length of petiole until the lowest
often measure nine inches long. Season, July to September.
Range, from Newfoundland to Pennsylvania, and westward be-
yond the Mississippi.
