Mr. Tuckerman, on some Plants of New England. 35 
Vaccinium uliginosum. It being a very northern and remarka- 
bly broad-leafed state of the species, which suggests this com- 
parison, it is not surprising that our much larger and narrower- 
leafed form should not so well compare with our exclusively 
alpine and small-leafed form of the Vaccinium. Fries remarks 
upon S. myrtilloides, that its leaves do not easily blacken in dry- 
ing: this is also true of our plant, which preserves all its beauty | 
in the herbarium. It should be added, that according to Fries 
and Koch, this is not the 8. myrtilloides of Willdenow, nor of 
Smith. 
S. ampicua, (Ehrh.}: amentis sessilibus fructiferis breviter pe- 
dunculatis, pedunculo minute foliato, capsulis ex ovata basi lan- 
ceolatis tomentosis longe pedicellatis, pedicello nectarium ter qua- 
terve superante, stylo brevi, stigmatibus ovatis emarginatis, foliis 
ellipticis obovatis lanceolatisve recurvato-apiculatis integerrimis 
vel remote denticulatis, subtus rugoso-venesis adpresse villosis 
subsericeis postremo glabratis, stipulis semi-ovatis rectis. och, 
Syn. p. 655, Comment. p. 49. S. plicata, Fries, Novit.p.284. 8S. 
incubacea, Fries, Mantiss. 1, p.66. WS. repens? Bigel. Fl. Bost. 
edit. 3, p. 392. WS. fusca, Oakes, Pl. N. Eng. (1. c.) p. 7. 
Hab. White Mountains, in moist alpine ravines; abundant 
about the outlet of the Lake of the Clouds, and in Oakes’s Gulf. 
Our White Mountain Willow was pronounced by Prof. Fries to 
be the S. incubacea of his first Mantissa, which I follow Koch 
in arranging as above. Leaves elliptical, acute or somewhat 
obtuse, commonly about an inch and a half in length by about 
half an inch in breadth, glaucous on the under surface, which 
is more or less covered with silvery silky hairs. Aments rather 
short, and the style exceedingly so. Our plant occurs with the 
leaves almost glabrous, and again with somewhat smaller gla- 
brous leaves with the margins reflexed. 
S. puyxiciroiia, (L.): foliis ovatis lanceolatisve remote re- 
pando-serratis glabratis, subtus glaucescentibus, stipulis semi- 
cordatis apice obliquo, amentis bracteatis masculis sessilibus, cap- 
sulis pedicellatis conico-elongatis subsericeis stylo longo. Fries, 
Mantiss. 1, p. 50. 
Hab. White Mountains, in moist alpine ravines; Lake of the 
Clouds; Great Gulf, (called Gulf of Mexico.) A handsome, 
low, spreading shrub, with rather large generally broad-elliptical 
very smooth leaves, which are remotely repand-serrate, and glau- 
