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form of the young leaves, which he described as being hastate. 
His idea of the term hastate must have been rather strange, for 
he figured the different leaf forms, and the form of leaf illustrated 
as representing the young shoots is elongate-ovate with slightly 
cordate base. 
It is represented in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden by the following specimens: 
ALBERTA: Bow River, May 26, 1899, McCalla 2236. 
Montana: Flathead Lake, July 23, 1900, J. W. Blankinship; 
Columbia Falls, September 14, 1892, R. S. Williams (both deter- 
mined as P. balsamifera candicans) ; various localities in Montana, 
Butler 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 137. To this may also belong the 
following, which are in leaf only: Butler 112, 113, 114, 135, 147: 
IDAHO: Salubria, July 10, 1899, M. E. Jones 6541 (labeled P. 
trichocarpa). 
PopuLus BEssEYANA Dode, loc. cit. 38 
Another poplar collected by Butler seems to be impossible to 
identify with any of the accepted species. Butler’s material is 
all in leaf only, but there is in our collection one specimen 
collected by Miss Isabel Mulford, in Idaho, which evidently 
belongs here, and this specimen is in fruit. It is evidently related 
to P. deltoides Marsh., but the leaf shape is different and the pedi- 
cels are very short, shorter than the capsule. The young stems 
are perfectly terete, not at all angled; the bases of the leaves of 
the mature branches are rounded or subcuneate at the base and 
more or less serrate along the base; the basal glands are small and 
the petioles flattened. In P. Sargentii Dode the leaves are 
flabellate-cordate, with an open concave sinus at the base, which 
is toothless. The leaves resemble much P. acuminata Rydberg 
but are broader and less cuneate at the base, and in the latter 
species the petioles are terete. I adopt Dode’s name, not because 
I can definitely identify it by his diagnosis but because his illus 
trations of the leaves resemble those of this species. 
To this belong the following specimens: 
IDAHO: Fish Haven, August 8, 1898, Isabel Mulford 203. 
Montana: Delta of Flathead River, Big Forks, Montana 
August 14, 1901, Umbach 192; and from several localities, Bulle’ 
109, III, 115, 116, 117, 120, 136, 139, 140, 144, 145, 149; 153- 
