CATALOGUE OE PLANTS. 
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Abraham Somes, of Gloucester, Mass., when ho chanced to sail 
up the Sound about 1760. He spent the summer in that vicinity 
making barrel staves, and then returned home with his cargo. 
The following year he returned to Somes Harbor for the same 
purpose, and finally, in 1762, built a house on the shore of the 
harbor near the present steamboat wharf, and began the per¬ 
manent settlement of Mt. Desert Island. 
C Q. ilicifolia, Wang. Beak Oak. Black Scrub Oak. 
Bare. Dog Mt. (Band, Elizabeth G. Britton). 
FAGUS, L. Beech. 
F. ferruginea, Ait. American Beech. 
Woods; common. 
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SALICACE.iE. Willow Family. 
SALIX, L. Willow. 
S. Incida, Muhl. Shining Willow. 
Wet places and borders of brooks and ponds; frequent. Otter 
Creek Brook; Great Pond; Northwest Cove, etc. (Band );— q ^ 
Bubble Pond; Jordan Pond; Long Pond mead ows, etc. (Bed- ' 
field). ThcfM. te* 
Forma latifolia. 
>. • 
Leaves IJ' wide, rounded or subacute at base, cuspidate- 
acuminate. Swamp north of Beech Hill; Southwest Harbor 
(Band); —Bubble Pond (B. & B.). 
Forma angnstifolia. 
Leaves narrowly lanceolate, tapering to a long point. Long 
Pond meadows; Thompson Island, etc. (Band). 
S. feAgilis, L. Crack Willow. Brittle Willow. 
c 
Bog, Clark Point, Southwest Harbor; Somesville (Band). 
Naturalized from Europe. 
S. FEAGILIS X ALBA, Wimmer. 
Aments leafy-peduncled, slender, loosejy flowered; stamens 2, 
villous at base; scale yellowish, lingulate; capsule very short- 
pedicelled, conico-cylindrical,' glabrous; style very short, stig- 
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