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Abraham Somes, of Gloucester, Mass., when he chanced to sail 

 up the Sound about 1760. He spent the summer in that vicinity 

 making barrel staves, and then returned home with his cargo. 

 The following year he returned to Somes Harbor for the same 

 purpose, and finally, in 1762, built a house on the shore of the 

 harbor near the present steamboat wharf, and began the per- 

 manent settlement of Mt. Desert Island. 

 Q. ilicifolia, Wang. Bear Oak. Black Scrub Oak. 

 Kare. Dog Mt. (Rand, Elizabeth G. Britton). 



FAGUS, L. Beech. 

 F. ferruginea, Ait. American Beech. 

 Woods; common. 



SALICACE^. Willow Family. 

 SALIX, L. Willow. 



S. lucida, Muhl. Shining Willow. 



Wet places and borders of brooks and ponds; frequent. Otter 

 Creek Brook ; Great Pond ; Northwest Cove, etc. (Rand) ; — 

 Bubble Pond; Jordan Pond; Long Pond meadows, etc. (Red- 

 field). 

 Forma latifolia. 



Leaves Ij' wide, rounded or subacute at base, cuspidate- 

 acuminate. Swamp north of Beech Hill; Southwest Harbor 

 (Rand) ;— Bubble Pond (R. & R.). 

 Forma angustifolia. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate, tapering to a long point. Long 

 Pond meadows; Thompson Island, etc. (Rand). 

 S. FRAGlLis, L. Crack Willow. Brittle Willow. 



Bog, Clark Point, Southwest Harbor; Somesville (Rand). 

 Naturalized from Europe. 

 S. FRAGiLis X ALBA, Wimmcr. 



Aments leafy-peduncled, slender, loosely flowered ; stamens 2, 

 villous at base; scale yellowish, lingulate; capsule very short- 

 pedicelled, conico-cylindrical, glabrous; style very short, stig- 



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