
CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 75 
out on well drained slopes; sprouts more freely than any other 
tree, old sprouts resisting fire well; large tree, N. E. side of 
Hoosicwhisick Pond, 17 ft. in circumference, 83 ft. high, 50 ft. 
spread : —M, small trees frequent in woods; grove of large 
trees in N. E. part of the Reservation. 
FAGUS, Tourn. BErEEcH. 
F. ferruginea, Ait. American BEECH. 
Rich woods. JB, frequent; usually represented by sprouts 
from roots and by young trees that have persisted since older 
trees were cut; the trees are killed by even a slight fire, those 
remaining being generally protected by moist land or by ledges 
and rocks; Beech Run; W. slope of Blue Hill, etc.: —M, 
occasional in woods; a small grove of young trees on Owen’s 
Walk: —S, valley, E. of Turtle Pond. 
SALICACEZE. Wutow Famuy. 
SALIX, Tourn. Wuttow. 
S. nigra, Marsh. Brack Wi.LLow. 
Banks of streams and ponds and in wet places. 6*, rare; 
by Old Furnace Brook; W. of Sawceut Notch: —S, rare; bog 
in Turtle Pond woods. 
S. lucida, Muhl. Sarmine WILLow. 
Wet places and borders of streams and ponds. Band M, 
occasional : —S *, low ground, W. of Office. 
S. rostrata, Richards. 
Moist or dry places. B, common both in the low land and 
on the summits of the range: —M, common. 
S. discolor, Muhl. Gxraucous Wittow. Common Swamp 
WILLow. 
Low ground. In all the Reservations on edges of meadows, 
in bogs and the more open parts of swamps, and occasionally 
+ Forms of S. alba, L. or S. fragilis, L. or both occur in all the 
Reservations, but no reports have been received by which a deter- 
mination of the species can be made. 
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