i42 jS'eiv Pkmts of New England. 



Art. IV. Descriptions of several New Plants of New 

 England. By Edward Tuckerman, Jr.. Schenecta- 

 dy," N. Y. 



Salix Cutler'x (mihi) prostrate, leaves elliptical, acute 

 both ways, glandular-toothed, smooth above, beneath 

 glaucous, with a few scattered hairs at the margin (the 

 younger leaves silky-pubescent), aments on foot-stalks, 

 long-cylindrical compact, capsules ovate-conical, on short 

 foot-stalks, smooth : scales obovate, black silky, style of 

 middle size, stigma two-cleft, the lobes at length also cleft. 

 S. retusa Oakes ! herb., S. i[7>a ursi Ph. ^ Torr. Catal. 

 1840., Oakes ! PI. N. Eng. in Hov. Mag. vol. 7., Barratt 

 in Notes of a Tour, &c. p. 8., Oakes ! Catal. Verm. p. 25. 

 Hab. White Mountains. Cutler ! &.c. The leaves occur 

 also, more rarely, obovate and obtuse. That our willow is 

 not the S. C^va ursi of Pursh would appear from his des- 

 cription. It may be safely said that there is not a charac- 

 ter given in that description by which the species may be 

 distinguished from ^S*. retusa : from which, on the other 

 hand, our plant is certainly distinct. It was first found by 

 our eminent botanist Dr. Cutler, and still exists in his herb- 

 arium now included in that of Mr. Oakes. /S. C/^va ursi was 

 described from garden specimens of a plant said to have been 

 brought from Labrador. S. retusa is described by Sir Wm. 

 Hooker in his Flora of Boreal America, but S. U^va. ursi 

 does not seem to have been known to that distinguished 

 author. 



Juncns Greme'i (Oakes & Tuckerm.) Culm erect, rigid, 

 subcompressed, striate naked, the base included by the 

 sheaths of the leaves, leaves rigid, linear-channelled, subu- 

 late-pointed, scarcely surpassing the middle of the culm, 

 anthela terminal composite with few rays, having a bract 

 at the base surpassing the culm, rays erect, branches co- 

 rymbose many-flowered, sepals oblong, ovate, acute mu- 

 cronate scarious, capsule ovate-elliptical, mucronate shorter 

 than the sepals. Hab. Sands. Tewksbury, B. D. Greene, 

 Esq. Ipswich, Plymouth, W. Oakes, Esq. Also, Cam- 

 bridge, Needham. &c. Resembles /. squarrosus, a foreign . 

 species, but very distinct. 



