1904] F'ernald, — Allies of Salix lucida , 7 



even 10 or 11) cm. long, i to 3.5 cm. broad, closely and finely gland- 

 ular-serrulate ; the slender lustrous petioles dpped by i to 3 pairs of 

 glands : winter buds lance-oblong, 5 to 7 mm. long, olive-brown or 

 castaneous, lustrous : aments on short white-pilose peduncles, termi- 

 nating short leafy branches : the staminate ament short-oblong, i to 

 1.5 cm. long, I to 1.2 cm. thick, the rachis white-pilose; scales short- 

 obovate, entire, pale straw-color, white-pilose ; filaments loosely hairy 

 at base: pistillate aments loosely flowered, in anthesis narrowly 

 oblong, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, with white-pilose oblong entire bluntish 

 scales ; style evident ; stigmas 2, thick, 2-lobed ; mature ament 2 to 

 3.5 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 cm. thick, the spreading-ascending mostly olive 

 or brown-tinged thick-walled lustrous conic-subulate capsules 7 to 12 

 mm. long, their thickish pedicels i to 2 mm. long, twice exceeding 

 the oblong-lingulate gland.— 6". lucida, van, Dudley, Cayuga Fl. 

 (1886) 87. S. lucida, var. serissima, Bailey in Arthur, Geol. & Nat. 

 Hist. Surv. Minn., Bull. no. 3 (1887) 19. .V. lucida, in part, Britton, 

 Cat. PI. N.J. (i88g) 226. S. lucida, var.?, Beckwith & Macauley,' 

 Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. iii. (1896) 103. S. amygdaloides, C. e' 

 Faxon according to R. Hofifmann, Rhodora, i (1899) 229, not 

 Andersson. S. sp., C. H. Bissell, Rhodora, v. (1903) 33. 1- In 

 deep sphagnous bogs or larch-swamps, from the Housatonic Valley, 

 Massachusetts, to the north shore of Lake superior, south to Morris 

 Co., New Jersey, western New York, northern Ohio, Michigan, Wis- 

 consin and Minnesota, flowering from late May to late June or'early 

 July, the fruit mature from late August to October. MAssACHUSErrs, 

 peat-bog, Stockbridge, September 24, 1899, J^^e i, 1900 {Ralph 

 Hojfmatui) : Connecticut, larch-swamps, border of Twin Lakes, 

 Salisbury, October 9, 1901 (C. H. Bissell, no. 55 11), May 31, 1902 

 (C. H. Bissell ^T' J. R. Churchill), near State Line, Salisbury, May 31, 



1902 {C. H. Bissell,/. R. Churcliill, (S^' M. L. Fernald), Sept. 22,' 



1903 {C. H. Bissell) : New Jersey, margin of pond near Sparta', 

 Sussex Co., September, 1867 (O. F. Austin); Budd's Lake, Morris 

 Co., August 6, 1869 {T. C. Porter — Field Columbian Museum, no. 



2804): New York, Round-Marshes, McLean {W. R. Dudley 



Field Col. Mus., no. 5904); Buffalo {G. IV. Clinton — Y\it\d Col. 

 Mus., nos. 4370, 4372): Ohio, Painesville, Lake Co., 1871 {H. C 

 Beardslee — ¥{^\d Col. Mus., no. 7106); Ashland Co., July u, 1899 

 {Selby &- Boyd, no. 1488 — Field Col. Mus., no. 103208): Ontario, 

 Pic River, Lake Superior {Loritig): Mfchigan, Flint, 1871 {D. 

 Clarke— Field Col. Mus., nos. 2426, 2427); Lansing (Z. //. Bailev 

 — Field Col. Mus., no. 6401 ) ; Jackson, Sept. 8, 1893 (.V. H.&'D.R. 

 Camp— Yield Col. Mus. no. 2709): VVlsconsin, Milwaukee (old 

 specimen, presumably from Lapham, in Gray Herb.): Minne.sota, 

 Mud River, Vermillion Lake, July 28, 1886 {Arthur, Bailev, (W 

 Holway, no. B 357 —Field Col. Mus., no. 6390). 



The stations from which we know Salix serissima suggest that it 



