Japan Flora: Shrub with dark brown branches, soft- pubescent while young; leaves oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 2-4 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, somewhat obtuse, long- cuneate toward the base, more or less short-pubescent, with few depressed teeth on upper margins, pale green beneath, with yellow sessile glands on both surfaces, sessile or barely petiolate; pistillate aments sessile, oblong to ellipsoidal, 1-1.5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide at maturity; fruit about 2 mm. long, resinous, broadly ovoid, the bracteoles 2, winglike, adnate at the base to the fruit. Apr. Bogs;

Hokkaido, Honshu (Ise and eastw.); rather rare. Kuriles, Sakhalin, n. Korea, to e.Siberia. The typical phase occurs widely in bogs in northern areas of the N. Hemisphere.