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MAINE, Gerrish Island and York Harbor, Jack: New HAMPSHIRE, 
Holderness, C. E. Faxon: VERMONT, New Haven, Zggleston (no. 
3331) and Middlebury (nos. 3332 and 3334), Waybridge, Zrazmera 
(no. 21), and New Haven (no. 23), Twin Mountain, Rutland, 
Eggleston (nos. 2230 and 2332), Lyndonville, Æggleston (no. 3398) : 
MasSACHUSETTS, West Boylston, North Lancaster and Shirley, Æ. 7. 
Thayer; Wareham, Outram Bangs (nos. 2, 3 and 4); Somerset 
Jack, (no. 1); Fall River, Z. 4. Handy; North Adams, Sargent: 
RHODE ISLAND, Tiverton, Sargent: CONNECTICUT, Franklin, Graves 
(no. 40) : ONTARIO, near Toronto, D. W. Beadle (nos. 104, 105, 106). 
In some of the Vermont specimens now referred to this species 
the anthers in the bud are faintly tinged with pink but are of the 
normal color soon after the flowers open. 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
AN ANOMALOUS ALPINE WILLOW. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
GasPÉ Peninsula in Quebec is, in eastern America at least, the 
home of the genus Sa/zx. There in an area of about gooo square 
miles we know twenty-four indigenous species, and two varieties of 
such pronounced character as to seem perhaps worthy specific rank. 
Of these twenty-six indigenous willows fourteen are arctic-alpine shrubs 
of the Shickshock Mountains. Most of these shrubs, Sa/ix herbacea 
L., S. arctica Pallas, S. anglorum Cham., S. glauca L., S. desertorum 
Richards., etc., are clearly referable to well known polar types ; but 
one small ascending shrub occurring on alpine meadows of Mt. Albert 
and in crevices of serpentine along the headwaters of Ruisseau au 
Diable seems to be unique among arctic-alpine willows. 
Superficially the shrub would be passed as the typical subglabrous 
Salix desertorum which grows along neighboring tributaries of Ruis- 
seau au Diable, but that very beautiful shrub has densely white- 
pubescent capsules and yellowish chartaceous scales. The little 
shrub, which in habit, bark and foliage so closely simulates S. deser- 
torum, has, instead, strictly glabrous capsules and glabrous green 
