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very silky, obtuse cylindrical, i to i}4 inches long, scales rosy, 

 anthers at first reddish, becoming deep yellow ; female ament less 

 silky, becoming very lax in fruit, 2 inches or more long ; capsules 

 rostrate from a thick base, the conspicuously long and slender 

 pedicels six to eight times the length of the nectary ; style short, 

 bifid, stigmas spreadmg, thick, two-lobed. ** No. 53, Herb. H- B. 

 and T." (v. s. in Herb. Torrey). 5. cordata, var. balsamifera, Hook., 

 Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 149 (teste Herb. Hook.) 5. pyrifolia. And. 

 Monog., p. 162. DC. Prod., xvi., 2, 264 (v. s. Herb. A. Gray.) 



The following will serve better than any comprehensive 

 description to indicate the range of variation. 



typica. Leaves ovate, 2 to 3 inches long, short pointed or 

 the lower obtuse, rounded at base, at length rigid and glaucous 

 beneath, with raised reticulate veins, minutely glandular-serru- 

 late; fertile aments very loose, leaves of the peduncle few and 

 large. This is the prevailing northern form, 



vegeta. Leaves broadly lanceolate, 4 to 5 inches long, acute 

 or acuminate, truncate or cordate at base, coarsely and irregu- 

 larly repand-toothed, paler beneath ; aments less spreading, not 

 so leafy at base. 



lanceolata. Leaves lanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long, ^ to 

 inch wide ; aments more slender, otherwise as in f. typica. 



alpestris. Low bush, 2 to 4 feet high ; leaves small, i to 2 in. 

 long, lanceolate, pointed at both ends, rather coarsely and irregu- 

 larly serrate, green both sides; male ament slenderly cylindrical, 

 less silky. Eagle Lake, Mt. Lafayette, alt. 4,200 feet; also on 

 the coast of Labrador. 



In open swamps and along streams from Labrador and Nova 

 Scotia west to the Saskatchawan Valley. Chateau and Squaw 

 Islands, Labrador, "a small shrub, i to 2^ feet high, growing 



y. A. Allen. Truro, Nova Scotia 



) 



James 



J, Macoiiit and Burgess. Kent 



Fowler. White Mountains, N. H., H. 



by Mr. Pringle and Mr, C, E, Faxon 



dance at Franconia by E. Faxon, He 



more, Vt., E. Faxon. Province of Quebec, Prof. Dudley, Flint, 



Mich., Dr. Clarke, Nepigon River, Ontario, and in various 



West 



Professors Macon 



M 



nn., Bailey. Manitoba, J. M. Macoun. Cumber-. 

 land House, Drnmmond {\%2^\ Lake Winnipeg and the Sas- 

 katchawan, Richardson, Bourgean. A well defined species not 

 shading off into any other, not even into its nearest congener, 



