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4) Sept. 9.th Solidago Altisima [altissima] Rough & thick-leaved Golden-rood — Sp. Chr. seem to accord — but am in doubt —

Leaves ovate, serrated — very thick, alternate — ovule — fine silky down upper side — rough lower side — paniculate Corymb. Many recems — towards top — Bloss all yellow —

Common Wells — old Fields — among Bushes —

Sept. 15. Sonchus floridanus? Gen. Chr. accord well — ye seeds are angular, & rather octangular yn Quadrangular — (or compressed & striated) —

It does not appear perfectly to accord with ye florid

5) I should describe it — Sonchus — pedunculus sub= =squammosis, foliis pinnato — — hastatis, runcinatis, semi= =amplexicaulibus, margine luspidis.

The Peduncles have some of them a scaly leaf — some have none Blossoms single on peduncles of unequal lenth, & in an irregular form — but ap= =proach nearest to a panicle.

The base of ye leaf half surrounds ye stem with pro= =jected angles. Some what penatifid — ye last divisio. to= =wards apex is nearly hastate The edge of ye leaf divided into irregular serrae — some very large — others smaller — with sharp but rather weak spines — Bloss erect, bright yellow — very common about barns — yards — & fences. Groves large & high — from 4 to 6 feet

6) feet — it is annual. Stem smooth striated, & [hastate?] Bloss Aug. Sept.

Sonchus aureus N. S. The Gen. Accord — except ye sees like ye former species.

Sonchus aureus, pedunculis nudis, floribus, racemosis, paniculatis, foliis superioribus Semiam= =plexicaulilus, lanceolata, inaqualater dentatis runcinatis; inferioribus lyrato-hastatis, Semamplexi= caulilus.

Stem, Smooth erect. 4 to 6 feet high — Lower leaves approaching to Lyre shaped. — divided transversely into unequally formed lucinia larger towards apex — ye apex triangular — toward ye base — it is widened — irregularlyserrated — larger

7) serrae terminating in spines — scarcely 2 of these leaves alike. The Upper leaves pretty uniform — semiamplexicaulis sessile — projected accute an on each side ye stem into accute angles — divided on each side ye rib irregularly — divisions deep towards ye apex — but ye leaf terminates uniform= =ly is a large Segt in form of a triangle.

Bloss Bright yellow — in ye form of an irregular panicle — peduncles perfectly smooth & naked. Bloss. in Aug. & Sept about fences. I am not con= =fident yt ye & ye former are not same species: having only one specn. of each being now almost out of Blossom & ye leaves nearly dried up. Com. about fences.

8) Sept. 15 Lactuca arvensis N.S. Milkweed. Small Mildweed Gen Chr. accord well —

Stem & Blos. erect — round smooth, purplish — Leaves veined — pinatifide — dentated on Segts intire. Sessile — Bloss in proper panicles, deep yellow.

I think this must be a new Species —

Lactuca arvensis — follis sessilia, pinatifidis; laciniis sursum dentatis, venosis.

It may be L. perennis — it is an annual plant Como. in old Feilds — & by fences among bushes Aug-Sept.

Luctuca canadensis Chr. accord pretty well