1909]  Fernald,— Salix pedicellaris and its Variations 161 
SALIX PEDICELLARIS Pursh. Small subsimple or loosely branching 
shrub: branchlets elongate, strongly ascending: leaves obovate- 
oblong to broadly oblanceolate, obtuse or acutish at tip, acutish at 
base, green on both surfaces, glabrous from the first; in maturity 
subcoriaceous, 2.5-5 cm. long, 1-2 сш. broad: fertile aments thick- 
cylindric, on leafy peduncles: capsules reddish or yellowish, ovoid 
at base, tapering gradually to the thick blunt beak: pedicels 2-4 mm. 
long, twice exceeding the smoothish yellow scale: nectary about 1 
mm. long.— Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 611 (1814); Eaton, Man. ed. 2, 415 
(1818); Torr. Compend. 366 (1826) and Fl. N. Y. п. 212, t. 120 
(1843); Beck, Bot. N. & Mid. States, 319 (1833); Hook. Fl. Bor.- 
Am. ii. 150 (1839); Carey in Gray, Man. 429 (1848), in part; Robin- 
son & Fernald in Gray, Man. ed. 7, 324, fig. 655 (1908), in part. S. 
myrtilloides ''uckerm. Am. Jour. Sci. xlv. 34 (1843); Anderss. Sal. 
Bor.-Am. 20 (1858); Gray, Man. ed. 5, 465 (1867); Britton in Britton 
& Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 505, fig. 1204 (1896); in part, not L. S. myrtil- 
loides, subsp. S. pedicellaris Anderss. Mon. Sal. 96 (1865), in part. 8. 
myrtilloides, 8. pedicellaris Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 2, 230 
(1868), in part.— Originally collected by Pursh in the Catskill Mts., 
New York. Specimens examined from QUEBEC, boggy shores of 
alpine ponds, Table-top Mt., Gaspé Co., August 4, 1906 (Fernald & 
Collins, no. 494): Vermont, Bristol bog, June 12, 1898 (W. W. 
Eggleston & A. C. Dyke, no. 360): New Yonk, western part of the 
state (Asa Gray): British CoLUMBIA, Telegraph "Trail, latitude 54°, 
June 2, 1875 (J. Macoun, по. 1658): Wasuincton, White Salmon, 
1879 (W. N. Suksdor]). 
Var. hypoglauca, n. var., foliis obovato-oblongis vel late oblanceo- 
latis apice obtusis vel subacutis basi acutis vel subacutis supra viridi- 
bus subtus glaucis, junioribus rufescentibus tenuibus glabris, demum 
subcoriaceis 3-8 em. longis 1-2.5 cm. latis; amentis femineis subdensi- 
floris fructiferis 2-3.5 сш. longis 1.5-2 cm. crassis, rhachi 1-2 mm. 
crassa; capsulis purpurascentibus vel flavescentibus 5-8 mm. longis 
basi ovoideis crassiusculis apice obtusis.— Leaves obovate-oblong or 
broadly oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, acute or subacute at base, 
green above, glaucous beneath; the young reddish, thin, glabrous; the 
mature subcoriaceous, 3-8 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. broad: pistillate aments 
rather densely flowered, in fruit 2-3.5 сш. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick; the 
rhachis 1-2 mm. thick: capsules purplish or yellowish, 5-8 mm. long, 
ovoid and thickish at base, obtuse at tip.— S. pedicellaris Auth. in 
part, not Pursh. S. myrtilloides Auth. in part, not L.— Sphagnous 
bogs and wet meadows from eastern Quebec to British Columbia, south 
to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Iowa. ‘Type collected in 
swamp at Cow Island, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, by F. F. Forbes, 
May 22 and July 20, 1905. Among the very numerous specimens 
examined may be cited the following. Quesec, vicinity of Mont- 
morency Falls, June 29, 1905 (J. Macoun, no. 68,788): New Bruns- 
WICK, open bog, Bathurst, July 25, 1902 (Williams & Fernald); Kent 
