Solidago hispida. Linn. herb. viii. 471. Much like S. caesia; stems erect, about 2 ft. high, simple, with flowering branches toward the summit, provided with short rough hairs. The stem leaves are alternate, sessile, lanceolate, whole entire margin, very smooth on both sur- faces; shorter and larger than those of S. caesia. The radical leaves are serrate, narrowed at base into a petiole. The flowers are placed in the axils of the upper leaves, in erect bunches, on terete branches, alternate and leafy. The corolla is yellow, radiate; the head of a medium size. This plant grows in America, in Pennsylvania,