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it should not have specific recognition. ‘The foregoing observations 
may be briefly summarized as follows. 
SALIX SUBSERICEA (Anders.) Schneider. Large shrub (2 to 2.5 m. 
high), with more or less zigzag habit, the reddish- or olive-brown 
branches making a considerable angle with the trunks; branchlets 
puberulent when young, soon glabrate: leaves lanceolate, when young 
loosely sericeous, in maturity glaucous and sparingly sericeous or 
glabrate beneath, dark green and somewhat lustrous except for the 
finely puberulent dull pale midrib above, 6-10 cm. long, 1.2-2.2 сш. 
broad, rather coarsely appressed serrate, the teeth about 5 to a centi- 
meter; petioles slender, 1-1.5 em. long: stipules small, lanceolate, 
acuminate, serrulate. Winter-buds puberulent: aments leafy-bracted 
at base, loosely to subdensely flowered, in maturity 2-3 em. long: scales 
oblong, with rounded blackish pilose tips: capsule lance-conic, blunt, 
loosely sericeous, 5-7 mm. long, its slender pedicel once and a half or 
twice as long as the scale and many times exceeding the minute gland 
(about 0.3 mm. long).— Handbuch der Laubholzk. pt. 1, 65 (1904). 
S. petiolaris, a, subsericea Anders. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 2, 234 (1864). 
S. sericea subsericea Rydb. in Britton, Man. 318 (1901) as to name- 
bringing synonym but not as to plant described. S. sericea X petio- 
laris Schneider, l. c. (1904).— Originally described from Fresh Pond, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, coll. May, 1847 (Geo. B. Emerson): now 
known to be generally distributed in the neighborhood of Boston; and 
apparently westward to southern New York. 
'The writer is indebted to Prof. M. L. Fernald for his kind assistance 
in the bibliographical part of this article. 
BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
SOME INTERESTING MAINE PLANTS. 
JOSEPH А. CUSHMAN. 
Durina August and September of 1907 I spent the larger part of 
the time in collecting in various parts of Maine. During August 
about two weeks were spent about Machias Bay with headquarters 
at Roque Bluffs. Mr. C. Н. Knowlton has already noted the char- 
acter of the region and some of the interesting plants of the mainland 
(Rnropona, ix. 218). 
