18 Bicknell: Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 



Certain specimens included here are perhaps referable to Salix 

 prill aides Pursh, 



■"* Salix eriocephala Michx. 



Frequent or rather common in the same parts of the island 

 where the preceding is found and often growing with it. Broad- 

 leaved and narrow-leaved forms occur, one of the latter having 

 the leaves and branchlets heavily invested with a soft ferruginous 

 pubescence. 



* Salix Bebbiana Sarg. 



Frequent, occurring in the same localities as the two foregoing 

 species. A few pistillate aments remaining June 13. On the 

 border of Tom Never's Swamp a distinct-appearing form was met 

 with, having unusually broad obovate leaves, densely velvety- 

 pubescent on the lower surface and to some extent above. 



* Salix humilis Marsh. 



A single very typical shrub a little over three feet high met 

 with on a dry spot at the border of Taupawshas Swamp. A few 

 shriveled fertile aments accidentally persistent June 18. 



Salix tristis Ait. 



This low willow is frequent on the plains along the south side 

 of the island east of Surfside, and large beds of it are found in the 

 South Pasture. It was met with elsewhere only on the borders 

 of Tom Never's Swamp and sparingly along the bluff at 'Sconset. 



* Salix sericea Marsh. 



A single small shrub, about four feet high, in Gibbs' Swamp, 

 Sept. 5, 1904. 



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met with in Tom Never*s Swamp, not far from 

 ^ptember, 1907 and June, 1908. 



MYRICACEAE 



' * Myrica Gale L. 



A single strongly growing clump on the west side of Capaum 

 Pond near the shore, covering a space about two yards in longer 

 diameter. It is about two feet in height, and appears to be a 



