CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 145 Abraham Somes, of Gloucester, Mass., when he 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. 476 Q. ilicifolia, Wang. BEAR OAK. BLACK SCRUB OAK. Rare. Dog Mt. (Rand, Elizabeth G. Britton). FAGUS, L. BEECH. 477 F. ferruginea, Ait. AMERICAN BEECH. Woods; common. SALICACEÆ. WILLOW FAMILY. SALIX, L. WILLOW. 478 S. lucida, Muhl. SHINING WILLOW. Wet places and borders of brooks and ponds; frequent. Otter Creek Brook; Great Pond; Northwest Cove, etc. (Rand);- Bubble Pond; Jordan Pond; Long Pond meadows, etc. (Red- field). 479 Forma latifolia. Leaves 1½' wide, rounded or subacute at base, cuspitate- acuminate. Swamp north of Beech Hill; Southwest Harbor (Rand);—Bubble Pond (R. & R.). 480 Forma angustifolia. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, tapering to a long point. Long Pond meadows; Thompson Island, etc. (Rand). 481 S. FRAGILIS, L. CRACK WILLOW. BRITTLE WILLOW. Bog, Clark Point, Southwest Harbor; Somesville (Rand). Naturalized from Europe. 482 S. FRAGILIS × ALBA, Wimmer. Aments leafy-peduncled, slender, loosely flowered; stamens 2, villous at base; scale yellowish, lingulate; capsule very short- pedicelled, conico-cylindrical, glabrous; style very short, stig- 10