174 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
tenue 1-1.5 mm. longo, stigmatibus adscendentibus brevibus bifidis, 
pedicello nectarium duplo-triplo superante quam squama breviori. 
Medium-sized or large shrub or small tree up to 5 m. high; branches 
glabrous or grayish-puberulent and finally glabrate, the pubescence 
rarely persistent; cortex more or less castaneous: leaves oblong or 
lanceolate, the mature subcoriaceous, 3.5-12 cm. long, 1.5-6 cm. wide, 
acute or subacute, cordate, rounded or rarely narrowed at base; 
glabrous on both surfaces, plane, green and somewhat lustrous above, 
glaucous-whitened beneath, blackening in drying, the margin closely 
crenate or crenate-serrate with gland-tipped teeth; petioles 3-12 mm. 
long: stipules semi-cordate, coarsely serrate, usually persistent: 
fruiting aments 2—4 (-5) em. long, 1-1.5 em. thick, subtended by 3-5 
small leaves: peduncle and rhachis white-pilose with minute hairs: 
scales brown or fuscous, obovate or oblong, obtuse, 1.5-2 mm. long, 
white-pilose with hairs 1.5-2.5 mm. long: capsules conic-subulate, 
beaked, glabrous, 4-7 mm. long, cordate at base; style slender, 1-1.5 
mm. long; stigmas ascending, short, bifid; pedicel 2-3 times as long 
as the nectary and shorter than the scale.— Alluvial shores and 
calcareous slopes, Newfoundland, Quebec, New Brunswick and Maine. 
NEWFOUNDLAND: banks of Humber River between Mt. Musgrave 
and Humber Mouth, July 15, 1910, Fernald, Wiegand & Kittredge, 
no. 3153; gravelly thickets along Harry's River, August 18, 1910, 
Fernald & Wiegand, nos. 3154 & 3155 (twigs pubescent), 3156 (mature 
leaves lanceolate, narrowed at base; leaves of sucker-shoots ovate- 
oblong, cordate); near the gypsum quarry at mouth of Romain's 
Brook, Bay St. George, August 15, 1910, Fernald, Wiegand & Kittredge, 
no. 3157 (trees); damp bushy ravines and brooksides in the limestone 
tableland, Table Mountain, Port à Port Bay, August 16, 1910, Fernald, 
Wiegand & Kittredge, nos. 3158, 3159, July 16 & 17, 1914, Fernald & 
St. John, nos. 10,819 (TYPE in Gray Herb.), 10,820, 10,821. QUEBEC: 
gravel beaches near the mouth of Dartmouth River, August 26 & 27, 
1904, Collins, Fernald & Pease; banks of the Grand River (Gaspé Co.), 
June 30-July 3, 1904 (several leaf-variants), Fernald; alluvial soil, 
mouth of Port Daniel River, July 30, 1902, Williams & Fernald; 
gravelly beaches and flats of Bonaventure River, July 5, 6 & 8, 1904, 
Collins, Fernald & Pease; Arbor Vitae swamp near mouth of Bona- 
venture River, July 31, 1902, Williams & Fernald; island at mouth of 
Little Cascapedia River, July 28, 1904, A. S. Pease; alluvium of 
Nouvelle River, July 19 & 20, 1904, Collins & Fernald; bank of 
Restigouche River, Matapedia, June 28, 1904, Fernald; banks of 
Matane River, August 5, 1904, F. F. Forbes; vicinity of Montmorenci 
Falls, August 7, 1902, Williams & Fernald, July 30, 1905, J. Macoun, 
no. 68,792. New Brunswick: beach of Aroostook River, Four 
Falls, August 14, 1901, Fernald. Martner: abundant on beach of St. 
John River, Fort Kent, June 16, 1898, Fernald, nos. 2471, 2472; beach 
of Aroostook River, Fort Fairfield, September, 1896, September 19, 
1900, June 6, 1901, Fernald. 
