36 Mr. Tuckerman, on some Plants of New England. 
cous on the under side. I have never found the aments. Spe- 
cimens of this were examined by Prof. Fries, and pronounced to 
be the 8. phylicifolia of his Mantissa. 
S. Gurtert, (mihi): foliis ellipticis acutis obovatisve obtusis 
basi semper acutis glanduloso-denticulatis supra levibus subtus 
glaucis glabriusculis, (junioribus sericeo-villosis,) amentis pe- 
dunculatis elongato-cylindraceis compactis, capsulis ovato-conicis 
breviter pedicellatis glabris, squamis obovatis atris sericeis, stylo 
mediocri stigmate bifido lobisque demum fissis. EH. 'T.—/S. pros- 
trata, Muhl. Catal. p. 95? (forsan ex Cutler.) WS. retusa, 
Oakes, herb. S. Uva Ursi, Pursh? Torr. Catal. N. Y., 1840, 
p. 170, Oakes, Pl. N. Eng. (1. c.) p. 7, Barratt in Notes of a 
Tour, &c. p. 8, Oakes, Catal. Verm. p. 25, (non Pursh.) 
Hab. White Mountains; abundant about rocks in the mica- 
ceous soil of Mount F'ranklin, Mount Pleasant, Mount Monroe, 
é&c.; Cutler, Oakes, E. T. Also on the Great Haystack, (var. 
infra laudat,) and mountains of Essex, New York, Mr. Macrae.— 
A much depressed, commonly almost prostrate alpine shrub, 
variable in some respects, but always distinguished by the glossi- 
ness and glaucous under side of its elliptical or obovate leaves. 
These are by no means constant in size, and sometimes occur 
an inch and a quarter long by half an inch in breadth. I have 
gathered a curious form on the Great Haystack, all the leaves 
being small and very narrow, averaging indeed little more than a 
third of an inch in length by a line and a half in breadth. ‘The 
description of 8. Uva Ursi of Pursh, does not agree with our 
Willow: nor do there appear to be any characters given by that 
author which will distinguish his species from S. retusa. I have 
two specimens without fruit, from the Lambertian herbarium, 
ticketed S. Uva Ursi, which also seem to me to be undistinguish- 
able from S. retusa, with a fine set of specimens of which, from 
Switzerland, I have compared them. Our plant differs from this 
species in the acute habit of its leaves, which are also thicker, 
and its much elongated compact aments, the capsules being only 
half the size of those of S. retusa. It is very distinct. Hooker 
admits 8. Uva Ursi doubtfully, in his Flora, while he enumerates 
S. retusa as belonging to our northern regions. 
D. in honorem primi inventoris, b. Manassis Cutler, S. T. D., 
A. A. 8., Botanicorum Novee Anglize seec. xvii facile Principis, 
