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herbaceous scales. In this scale-character the shrub somewhat 
approaches S. retusa of alpine Europe and its allies of the Himalayas ; 
but unlike them it has the very definite style characteristic of S. deser- 
torum, S. glauca, and their allies, all species with strongly pubescent 
capsules. If, as is apparently the case, this little willow is closely 
related to the superficially similar S. desertorum and its allies which 
abound on Mt. Albert, it would seem that the current tendency, to 
separate subgenerically species with glabrous from those with pubes- 
cent capsules, is at best artificial. Upon that question further study 
is needed, but since the Mt. Albert shrub with green herbaceous scales 
is clearly distinct from the described species to which it is apparently 
related it may be called 
Sarıx chlorolepis. Frutex ramosus o.3-1 m. altus, ramis sub- 
erectis griseis 6-8 mm. crassis junioribus badiis lucidis; foliis lance- 
olatis vel elliptico-oblongis vel auguste obovatis apice et basi sub- 
aequaliter attenuatis obtusis vel rotundatis supra viridibus subtus 
glaucis utrinque primo arachnoideis demum glabratis integris 1-2.5 
cm. longis 4-14 mm. latis breviter petiolatis; amentis breviter foliato- 
pedunculatis ovoideis vel cylindricis 5-13 mm. longis; squamis 
oblongis vel obovatis subtruncatis vel retusis glabris viridibus sub- 
herbaceis 2-3 mm. longis; filamentis pallidis glabris 5 mm. longis, 
antheris o.; mm. longis; capsulis glabris conico-subulatis obtusis 
obsolete pedicellatis 4 mm. longis; stylis 1.5 mm longis valde fissis, 
stigmatibus bifidis laciniis elongatis divergentibus. — QUEBEC, alpine 
meadows and wet crevices of serpentine, altitude 800-1000 meters, 
headquarters of Ruisseau au Diable, Mt. Albert, August 12, 1905 
(Collins & Fernald, no. 59). 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
ScLEROLEPIS IN New HAMPSHIRE. — According to both Gray's 
and Britton's manuals, Selerolepis verticillata, Cass., ranges from New 
Jersey southward. Therefore the occurrence of this species in Brad- 
ford, N. H., a town some thirty-five miles north of Massachusetts and 
sixty miles from the coast, is of certain interest. At the southern 
end of Bradford Pond there is a grove of tall pitch pines separated 
from the water by a white sandy beach. During the first week of 
August, this beach was largely occupied by the following plants, all 
