110 FLORA OF MOUNT DESERT. Brook Notch; Beech Mt. Notch; and elsewhere (Rand);—path to Bubble Pond; path to Newport Pond; Hadlock Valley (Redfield);—Dog Mt., in dry, open ground (Rand). 239 S. bicolor, L. WHITE GOLDEN ROD. Roadsides and fields; common. Stg. Falmouth, MS. K. 240 Var. concolor, T. & G. RK Roadside, south of High Head. The plant, however, is not a very well marked form of this variety. PD, A. R. Meddem (m). Bic. Tracwrt(189)KC AR. Binc. D+ OnR. 241 S. Virgaurea, L. Stem erect, sparingly branched, 4'-24' high, glabrous or pubescent with curled hairs; leaves linear or lanceolate-oblong, 1'-4' long, obscurely toothed, obtuse or acute; heads crowded, 4" long, shortly peduncled, golden yellow; bracts of the involucre linear, acute, glabrous, green, margins scariosus; ray flowers 10-12, spreading; disk flowers 10-20; achene pubescent, pappus white. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Isles, 205. (See also Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xx. 207.) Hio, Southwest Harbor; foot Pemetic Mt.; Great Cranberry Isle; path on Jordan Mt.; Frenchman Camp road (Rand);—Seal Harbor (R. & R.). This Island form is very like var. angustifolia, Gaud., and var. ericetorum, DC., of the Old World, with lower leaves oblong lanceolate, long petioled, and upper leaves narrower. There are other forms, with narrower, thinner leaves, approaching S. humilis, Pursh, but hardly to be placed under that species. Seal Harbor (Redfield);—foot of Western Mt.; Great Cranberry Isle; Dog Mt.; east peak of Western Mt.; Frenchman Camp road (Rand). 242 Var. Randii, Porter. More or less glutinous; stems stout, erect, 1°-2° high, often dark purple, puberulent, or sometimes glabrate below; radical and lower leaves obovate or oblanceolate, acute, serrate,—cauline lanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, sparingly serrate or entire, glabrous; inflorescence an ample branched panicule or loose virgate thyrsus; heads 3" or more long; outer scales of the involucre mostly ovate or lance-ovate and bluntish, sometimes almost linear and acute, inner ones oblong-linear, yellowish,