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BOTANY. 
Notes on a Few Shrubs of Northern Nebraska.—Of 50 
shrubs that grow in the northern tier of counties west of Antelope 
County, some few have interested the writer and may prove of general 
interest. The observations extend over a period of six years. They are 
likely to be continued with equal profit in the years to come. The 
order followed is that of Professor Bessey's * Native Trees and Shrubs 
of Nebraska." 
The only shrub representing the Coniferae is Juniperus communis L. 
I have seen it only in Hat Creek Basin, Sioux County. There it grows 
in prostrate ascending form, exactly like the juniper of Connecticut, 
in dry pastures. I have no specimen of the latter, but suppose it to be 
var. alpina. 
Corylus americana Walt. is chiefly remarkable for its absence in 
this region. I have found it only in Cherry County, ten miles east of 
Valentine and 20 miles southwest on the Niobrara and its tributaries. 
It is flourishing and abundant where it occurs. Its lack of distribution 
may be partly accounted for by the late frosts of this high altitude 
(2600 ft.), which, as this year, destroy the flowers. 
Salix tristis Ait. is very common over the sand-hill portion of Cherry 
County, also in Brown and Holt Counties. When it was sent to Mr. 
M. S. Bebb from Long Pine, Brown County, he stated that that was its 
western limit, so far as he knew. It is probable that Cherry County 
furnishes the limit sixty miles further west. Gray’s Manual gives 
the height * 1-13 ft. high.” It grows 5 feet high at Long Pine, in the 
brush. 
Salix cordata is represented by var. angustata Anders., though the 
State claims var. vestita Anders. in the other portions. Mr. Bebb 
(Coulter's Man.) says: “It is altogether incredible, however, that any 
form of S. cordata ever attains tree-like size." I have a specimen at 
Ewing, Holt Ccunty, about twenty feet high and eight inches in diam- 
eter—a pretty sizable shrub! I shall measure it and take specimens 
this season. I will state, however, that it retains its shrubby character 
by branching ten or fifteen times just above this diameter, some of the 
branches being five or six inches through. 
!Edited by Prof. C. E. Bessey, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 
