BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. XVI.] New York, February 5, 1889. [No. 2. 



White Mountain Willows.— II. 



By M. S. Bebb. 



Salix PHYLICIFOLIA, L. Carey, Gray's Man., Ed. 2. 5. chlor- 



ophylla, And., Gray's Man. Ed. 5, excl. char. 5. chloro- 



phylla, var. demidata. And., DC. Prod. 



This has been considered the rarest species of the little 

 group of Alpine Willows found on the White Mountains, and 

 certainly specimens available for study in even the largest her- 

 baria of the country have been very meagre and unsatisfactory. 

 We read, therefore, with surprise Mr. Faxon's statement that it 

 is " probably more widely diffused than 5. argyrocarpa, reaching 

 the same upper limit, but descending a little lower " — and his 

 ample collections within the range reported, viz., from 3,700 to 

 5,500 feet altitude above the sea, would seem to indicate no 

 scarcity of individual plants. From Mr. Faxon's notes I com- 

 pile the following list of particular localities : Oakes Gulf, Lake 

 of the Clouds (where it appears to have most frequently attracted 

 the attention of other collectors), Alpine Garden, Tuckerman's 

 Ravine, Hermit Lake, Great Gulf, Spaulding's Spring, Madison 

 Spring and Huntington's Ravine — " where it is quite abundant; 

 but this ravine is so difficult and dangerous that I have never 

 explored it much, not daring to do so alone." 



S. phylicifolia is also found on Mt. Mansfield, near the Lake 

 of the Clouds, where it was first noticed by Mr. Pringle. 



Mr. Faxon finds the species to vary in habit as follows : 

 I. In the higher parts of the Alpine Garden, on Mt. Washington, 

 alt. 5,500 ft., it is a depressed and prostrate shrub, seldom rising 

 more than one foot from the ground, fruits rarely, and seems not 

 to endure tlie rigor of the climate so well as the other Alpine 

 species. 2. " In Oakes Gulf, Tuckerman's Ravine, and around 



