Word: solidago
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...William Blaxton, at what is now the corner of Charles and Beacon streets in Boston. One variety of the handsome blue lobelia was prized by the Indians as a cure for syphilis - and bought for a pretty price by a gullible English nobleman. The colonizers were more astute about Solidago, or goldenrod, that "humble and glorious" wildflower, which they took home and improved and now sell back to Americans for fancy sums. Indeed, argues White, goldenrod, which has 54 native species and grows in every state of the Union, should be adopted as the national flower (the U.S. has none...
...Wetmore '24, Assistant Professor of Botany, to assemble the more extensive collection of the genera Aster and Solidago, to be studied later in the laboratory for the purposed of adding information to knowledge of cytology of hybrids and to the methods Nature adopts in producing new forms...
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