178 . Rhodora [OCTOBER 
the European S. caprea that foliage-specimens of the two can be 
readily distinguished only by the more tomentose branchlets of the 
newly proposed variety. 
Another very extreme variant, apparently of S. rcstrata, is a large 
shrub or small tree of western Newfoundland, which is quite as pubes- 
cent as var. capreifolia but has remarkably slender and elongate fruit- 
ing aments, long scales and comparatively short pedicels. When 
better known this may prove to be a distinct species but for the present 
it is proposed as l 
S. ROSTRATA, var. projecta, n. var., frutex altus vel arbor mediocris; 
ramulis crassis dense canescento-tomentosis, tomento persistente; 
foliis elliptico-ovatis vel oblongis obtusis vel subacutis, junioribus 
utrinque dense tomentosis paulo glanduloso-serratis; amentis fruc- 
tiferis 6-8 cm. longis 1-1.5 cm. crassis; squamis fulvis lineari-oblongis 
obtusis leviter pilosis 3-4 mm. longis; capsulis lanceolato-subulatis 
dense villosis 5-6 mm. longis, pedicellis dense villosis 2-3.5 mm. longis. 
Tall shrub or small tree, with stout densely cinereous-tomentose 
branchlets; the tomentum persistent: leaves elliptic-ovate or oblong, 
obtuse or subacute, the young densely tomentose upon both surfaces, 
sparingly glandular-serrate: fruiting aments 6-8 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. 
thick: scales light brown, linear-oblong, obtuse, slightly pilose, 3—4 
mm. long: capsules lance-subulate, densely villous, 5-6 mm. long; 
pedicel densely villous, 2-3.5 mm. long.— NEWFOUNDLAND: woods, 
Wild Cove (south of Bay of Islands), June 11, 1896, A. C. Waghorne 
(TYPE in Gray Herb.). 
Differing from all the described varieties of S. rostrata in the slender 
elongate ament, the long scales, the short capsules and the pedicels 
shorter than the scales; in S. rostrata and its described varieties the 
scales being 1-3 mm. long, the capsules 5-12 mm. long, and the mature 
pedicels 3-8 mm. long and very distinctly exceeding the scales. 
SALIX leiolepis, n. sp., frutex depressus, trunco ramisque subter- 
raneis repentibus, ramulis assurgentibus 3-10 cm. altis pallidis glabris 
apice folijferis; foliis crassis elliptico-rotundatis 0.7-2 cm. longis 0.5-1.4 
cm. latis supra viridibus glabris impresse nervosis subtus glauco- pallidis 
reticulato-venosis glabris vel juvenilibus sericeo-tomentosis glabratis- 
que, margine integerrimis vel crenatis paulo revolutis, petiolis glabris 
1-4 mm. longis; gemmis terminalibus olivaceis glabris anguste ellip- 
soideis obtusis 4-5 mm. longis 1.5-2.5 mm. crassis; amentis terminali- 
bus breve pedunculatis, fructiferis densifloris ellipsoideis 5-11 mm. 
longis, pedunculis 1-2.5 mm. longis glabris; squamis olivaceis vel 
fulvescentibus rotundato-obovatis glabris 1 mm. longis; capsulis 
subsessilibus conico-ovoideis obtusis 3.5-4.5 mm. longis glabris pur- 
purascentibus, stylo brevissimo stigmatibus divergentibus bifidis, 
nectarii laciniis 2 filiformibus 1 mm. longis. 
