1904] Fernald, — Allies of Salix liicicla 3 



examined. Maine, Heau Lac, St. Francis River, August 14, 1902 

 ( JV. W. EgglestoH 6-* M. L. Fernald) ; Fort Kent, July 22, 1900 (/. 

 F. Collins QT^ E. F. Williams), August 11, 1901 {B. I.. jRobinson, E. 

 F. Wiiliams &- M. L. Fernald); Island Falls, July 9, 10, 1898 {M. 

 L. Fernald, nos. 2452, 2453) ; Nkw Brunswick, Toms Island, 

 Restigouche River, July 30, 1896 {G. U. Hay). 



The other willow of New England, which, by some who have 

 known it either in the field or the herbarium, has been reluctantly 

 placed with Salix lucida, is a remarkable shrub with a varied history. 

 The attention of New England botanists was directed to it in 1899, 

 when Mr. Ralph Hoffmann reported from "a peat-bog in Stock- 

 bridge, Mass., a handsome- willow, growing as a shrub fifteen feet or 

 less in height": with the additional notes that "the persistence, or 

 late ripening of the fruit is particularly characteristic; a branch col- 

 lected September 24, still retains its half opened capsules. The 

 willow grows plentifully in beds of sphagnum, in company with 

 Betula piwtila L. and Sarraccnia purpurea L. Mr. C. E. Faxon, who 

 lias kindly examined a branch, pronounces it Salix amygdaloides, 

 Anders.," ^ a species then unrecorded east of central New York. 



On June i, 1900, Mr. Hoffmann collected from the Stockbridge 

 bog material in pistillate flower which has been deposited in the 

 herbarium of the New England Botanical Club; and on May 31, 

 1902, in a deep larch-swamp among the Taconic Mountains, at 

 Salisbury, Connecticut, scarcely twenty-five miles from the Stock- 

 bridge bog this handsome willow, in staminate flower, greatly per- 

 plexed Messrs. C. H. Bissell, J. R. Churchill, and the writer. In 

 the Salisbury swamp, as at Stockbridge, the willow was associated 

 with Betula pumila^ while Salix Candida, Carex Sclnveinitzii , C. teta- 

 niea, C. teretiuscula, var. ramosa, and other characteristic plants of 

 the Taconic region were iu liiis or adjacent swamps. At the time of 

 collection the Salisbury shrub was not identified with the Stock- 

 bridge willow which had been taken for Salix amygdaloides; for, as 

 the Salisbury shrub had the leaves lustrous-green above with gland- 

 tipped petioles, and short-oblong staminate aments, it was tempo- 

 rarily placed with S. lucida. Unlike that species, however, which 

 was in the neighborhood, the Salisbury willow had the leaves very 

 pale or even whitened beneath, the character ordinarily relied upon 



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