1907] Fernald,— New Willows of Eastern America 225 
While studying the specimens and descriptions of Labrador willows 
the writer has often wondered that Salix adenophylla should have been 
described as a unique species from Labrador and that we should now 
know the plant only from the sand dunes of the Great Lakes. A 
careful study of Hooker's original description of S. adenophylla and 
of Andersson's fuller descriptions of the type material shows that the 
shrub of the Great Lakes can have no close affinity with S. adenophylla 
and it is here proposed as 
SALIx syrticola n. sp. Frutex altus vel mediocris laxe procumbens, 
ramis crassis cinereo-tomentosis vel puberulis; foliis ovatis vel late 
lanceolatis acuminatis cordatis vel subcordatis crebre glanduloso-ser- 
rulatis junioribus sericeo-lanatis demum firmis viridibus opacis lanatis 
vel glabratis 3-10 em. longis 2—5 cm. latis, petiolis brevibus latis 
cinereo-pubescentibus; stipulis conspicuis foliaceis cordato-ovatis 
glanduloso-serrulatis petiolos valde superantibus; amentis peduncu- 
latis foliis patulis 3-6 suffultis, masculis 2.5—4.5 cm. longis circa 1 
cm. crassis, femineis 2—4.5 demum 5-10 cm. longis 1-1.5 cm. cras- 
sis; squamis oblongis fulvis valde tomentosis vel longe sericeis; cap- 
sulis conico-subulatis glabris rufescentibus 5-7 mm. longis basi 
rotundatis vel subcordatis pedicellatis, pedicello glabro 0.5-1 mm. 
longo nectarium prope triplo superante; stylo 0.5-1 mm. longo, 
stigmatibus vix bifidis. 
Large straggling shrub: branchlets stout, cinereous-tomentose or 
-puberulent; leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate, cordate 
or subcordate, closely glandular-serrulate, silky-lanate when young, 
often becoming glabrate, in maturity firm, dull green, 3-10 cm. long, 
2-5 em. broad; petioles short and broad, dilated at base, cinereous- 
pubescent: stipules conspicuous, foliaceous, cordate-ovate, glandular- 
serrulate, much exceeding the petioles: bud-scales cinereous-tomentose: 
aments appearing with the leaves, on leafy-bracted peduncles, the 
bracts 3-6, resembling the leaves; staminate aments 2.5—4.5 em. 
long, about 1 em. thick; pistillate 24.5, becoming in fruit 5-10 em. 
long, 1-1.5 cm. thick: scales oblong, pale brown, very densely long- 
silky or tomentose: capsule conic-subulate, glabrous, rufescent, 
5-7 mm. long, rounded or subcordate at base: pedicel glabrous, 
0.5-1 mm. long, nearly twice as long as the nectary: style 0.5-1 inm. 
long; stigmas obscurelv bifid: stamens 2, the filaments glabrous.— 
S. adenophylla Bebb, The Lens, ii. 249 (1873), and in Gray, Man. 
ed. 6, 485 (1890); Britton in Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 504, fig. 
1203 (1896); not Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 146 (1839).— Sand dunes 
and beaches along the Great Lakes. A sheet in the Gray Herbarium 
from sandy shores of Lake Michigan, near Chicago, H. H. Babcock, 
1880 (Bebb, Herbarium Salicum, no. 2) may serve as the type. 
This handsome shrub is one of the best marked species in the group, 
