176 Rhodora [OcroBER 
margin crenate-dentate, with gland-tipped teeth; petiole ashy-pilose, 
4-6 mm. long: stipules none: fruiting aments short-peduncled, 2-2.5 
em. long, 7-8 mm. thick; peduncle 2-3 mm. long, bearing 1 or 2 
leaves, very white-pilose with hairs 1-2 mm. long: scales oblong-ovate, 
obtuse, 2 mm. long, black, white-pilose with hairs 2-2.5 mm. long: 
capsules conic-cylindrie, obtuse, 3.5-4 mm. long, ashy-tomentose; 
style slender, 0.5 mm. long; stigmas strongly bifid, ascending; pedi- 
cel 0.7 mm. long, twice as long as the nectary.— QuEBEC: banks of the 
Grand River, Gaspé County, June 20-July 3, 1904, Fernald (TYPE 
in Gray Herb.). 
Nearest related, apparently, to the complex known as S. phylicifolia 
L.; but distinguished by the obviously crenate-dentate leaves with 
their very glaucous lower surfaces and their characteristic pubescence, 
as well as by the very short blunt capsules which, in form, suggest 
those of S. sericea, to which S. paraleuca has no close affinity. 
SaLIX stenocarpa, n. sp., frutex altus, ramis castaneis lucidis 
ramulis pilosis glabratisque; foliis oblanceolatis planis, juvenilibus 
albido-villosis glabratis 4-10 em. longis 1.5-3 em. latis supra viridibus 
sublucidis ad nervum albido-pilosis subtus glauco-albidis apice acu- 
minatis basi attenuatis vel rotundatis margine undulato-dentatis, 
dentibus glanduligeris, petiolo piloso 4-10 mm. longo; stipulis subreni- 
formibus; amentis fructiferis pedunculatis laxis 2.5-3.5 em. longis 
8-10 mm. crassis, pedunculo 8-10 mm. longis 3-5 foliis parvis 
instructis breviter tomentosis; squamis anguste oblongis obtusis 2.5-3 
mm. longis fulvis albido-pilosis, pilis circa 1 mm. longis; capsulis 
subulato-attenuatis 4-5 mm. longis albido-tomentosis, stylo vix 1 mm. 
longo, stigmatibus stylum aequantibus integris, pedicello vix 0.5 mm. 
longo nectarium paulo superante. 
Tall shrub; the branches castaneous and shining; the branchlets 
pilose, finally glabrate: leaves oblanceolate, flat; the young white- 
villous, glabrate, 4-10 em. long, 1.5-3 em. wide, green and somewhat 
shining above, white-pilose along the midrib, glaucous-whitened be- 
neath, apex acuminate, base narrowed or rounded, margin undulate- 
dentate with gland-tipped teeth; petiole pilose, 4-10 mm. long; 
stipules subreniform: fruiting aments peduncled, loose, 2.5-3.5 em. 
long, 8-10 em. thick; peduncle 8-10 mm. long, bearing 3-5 small 
leaves, short-tomentose: scales narrowly oblong, obtuse, 2.5-3 mm. 
long, yellow-brown, white-pilose with hairs about 1 mm. long: cap- 
sules subulate-attenuate, 4-5 mm. long, white-tomentose; style barely 
1 mm. long; stigmas equaling the style, entire; pedicel barely 0.5 mm. 
long, a little longer than the nectary.— QuEBEc: ledgy banks of 
Restigouche River, Matapedia, June 28, 1904, Fernald (rype in 
Gray Herb.). 
Related to S. paraleuca, but differing in its more elongate shallowly 
toothed leaves, (when young with characteristic white pubescence), the 
