172 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
or fuscous scales. On mossy knolls of the limestone tableland of 
Table Mountain on Port à Port Bay in western Newfoundland, a low 
shrub closely agreeing with S. myrtillifolia in foliage, aments, etc., 
departs from the general tendencies of the species in having the foliage 
conspicuously whitened beneath, the scales of the ament black, and 
the capsules sessile or subsessile and of a conic-ovoid outline. These 
characters would, at first sight, seem to constitute a good species, but 
in the series of specimens of S. myrtillifolia from across the continent 
one or another of these exceptional characters occasionally appears 
in otherwise good S. myrtillifolia and it is, therefore, most satisfactory 
to treat the Table Mountain shrub as a very extreme variety of a 
widely distributed species. It may be called 
S. MYRTILLIFOLIA Anderss., var. brachypoda, n. var., frutex caes- 
pitosus trunco subterraneo prostrato usque 1 cm. diametro, ramis 
assurgentibus 1-3 dm. altis, cortice brunneo, ramulis puberulis; 
foliis oblongis vel obovato-oblongis obtusiusculis crebre crenatis 
1-3.5 cm. longis 0.4-1.6 cm. latis utrinque glaberrimis planis supra 
viridibus lucidis reticulato-venosis subtus glauco-albescentibus ex- 
siccatione nigrescentibus, petiolis 1-2 mm. longis; stipulis nullis; 
amentis fructiferis 1.5-2.5 cm. longis 0.8-1 cm. crassis foliis parvis 
1-3 suffultis, pedunculo rhachique albo-villosis; squamis atris 
oblongis obtusis villosis vel glabratis 1-1.5 mm. longis; capsulis 
conico-ovoideis glabris fulvescentibus 4-6 mm. longis subsessilibus, 
stylo 0.5-1 mm. longo, stigmatibus brevibus divergentibus, nectario 
minuto. 
Caespitose shrub with subterranean prostrate trunk up to 1 cm. in 
diameter; branches assurgent, 1-3 dm. high, with brown bark; the 
branchlets puberulent: leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, obtusish, 
closely crenate, 1-3.5 cm. long, 0.4-1.6 cm. wide, glabrous on both 
surfaces, flat, the upper surface green, shining and reticulate-veined, 
the lower glaucous-whitened, quickly blackening in drying, petioles 
1-2 mm. long: stipules none: fruiting aments 1.5-2.5 em. long, 0.8- 
1 em. thick, subtended by 1-3 small leaves; peduncle and rhachis 
white-villous: scales black, oblong, obtuse, villous or glabrate, 1— 
1.5 mm. long: capsules conic-ovoid, glabrous, reddish-yellow, 4—6 mm. 
long, subsessile; style 0.5-1 mm. long; stigmas entire, divergent; 
nectary minute.— NEWFOUNDLAND: mossy knolls on the limestone 
tableland, altitude 200-300 m., Table Mountain, Port à Port Bay, 
July 17, 1914, Fernald & St. John, no. 10,822 (TYPE in Gray Herb.). 
SALIX cryptodonta, n. sp., frutex 3-4 m. altus, ramis fuscis lucidis, 
ramulis tenuibus albido-tomentosis; foliis crassiusculis utrinque sub- 
rugosis oblongo-lanceolatis 3-5 cm. longis 1-2 em. latis acuminatis 
basi rotundatis margine revolutis adpresse vel obscure crenatis, 
