116 Rhodora [JUNE 
plagiarism. There is no reason to suppose that the two lists were not 
prepared independently, and the Plymouth list must have been. 
HiNGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS. 
THE NARROW-LEAVED VARIETY OF SALIX PYRIFOLIA.— In one of 
his discussions of Salix balsamifera Barratt, the late M. S. Bebb set 
off some leaf-extremes as varieties (Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xv. 124). 
With the exception of one, his var. lanceolata, they have not seemed to 
the writer worthy separate designation; but the var. lanceolata is 
found in some of the swamps of eastern Newfoundland to be so uni- 
form and to occur in such extensive areas that it seems well worth 
recognition. But, unfortunately, the highly appropriate and long- 
used name, S. balsamifera Barratt, was published as a specific name 
merely in synonymy and was not validated as a specifie name until 
1879, when Bebb brought it forward" (Bot. Gaz. iv. 190). In the 
meantime S. pyrifolia Andersson was properly published (Vet. Acad. 
Handl. Stockh. vi. no. 1, 162) in 1867 and as the first valid specific 
name must stand. The narrow-leaved shrub should, therefore, be 
called 
SALIX PYRIFOLIA Anderss., var. lanceolata (Bebb) n. comb. S. 
balsamifera, var. lanceolata Bebb, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xv. t. 81, fig. 7 
(1888).— M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
Vol. 16, no. 185, including pages 81 to 96, was issued 11 May, 1914. 
