160 Rhodora d [AvavsT 
The third variety is a little shrub, apparently as rare as the green- 
leaved plant, with the leaves very glaucous beneath but oblanceolate 
to linear-oblong, acute or subacuminate, and mostly less than 1 cm. 
broad. As it occurs in bogs along the Concord River in Bedford, 
Massachusetts, this narrow-leaved plant is recognized at some distance 
not only by its foliage but by the more slender and more prominently 
beaked capsules, which give the aments a looser appearance than is 
ordinary in the commoner variety. On the Concord meadows it 
occurs in small colonies by itself, often in wetter places than the other, 
but occasional shrubs present tendencies transitional to the common 
variety with obovate-oblong leaves and plumper blunter capsules. 
The narrow-leaved extreme is the plant obviously intended by Bebb 
as Salix myrtilloides, var. pedicellaris with “leaves oblong-linear or 
oblanceolate” and it seems to have formed a small part of Andersson’s 
S. myrtilloides, В. pedicellaris. But in order to determine whether 
we are justified in applying the name pedicellaris to a plant with 
“oblong-linear or oblanceolate” leaves, which are very glaucous 
beneath, and with slender subulate capsules it is necessary to examine 
Pursh’s original description of S. pedicellaris. This was as follows: 
^13. S. ramulis laevigatis, foliis obovato-lanceolatis pedicellaris. 
acutis integerrimis utrinque glabris concoloribus, 
stipulis nullis, amentis coaetaneis pedunculatis 
glaberrimis, squamis oblongis pedicello duplo 
brevioribus vix pilosis, germinibus ovato-ob- 
longis longissime pedicellatis glabris, stigmati- 
bus sessilibus bifidis. 
S. pensylvanica Hortul. 
On the Catskill mountains, New York. h. 
April. v.v. This elegant and singular species 
flowered in the garden of G. Anderson, Esq., 
from a plant brought by me from America. Не 
has one through another channel, which appears 
to be the male to this species." ! 
From this original description it can hardly be questioned that 
Pursh's Salix pedicellaris, with obovate-lanceolate leaves green on both 
sides and “germinibus ovato-oblongis" is the rare shrub noted above 
as the second variety. The two shrubs with the leaves glaucous 
beneath, both of which have been at times referred to S. pedicellaris, 
seem to have had no names which can be taken up for them and are here 
proposed as new varieties. ‘The characteristics and bibliographic 
history of these three variations of S. pedicellaris are as follows. 
1 Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. іі. 611 (1814). 
