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It is with some doubt that I add also the following species with glabrous ovaries 
to this section, but I have been able to find only one gland in the c? flowers. 
110. Salix microphyta Franchet. See p. 62. 
Sect. 18. OVALIFOLIAE ! Rydberg in Bull. N. York Bot. Gard. I. 274 (1899). 
Frutices humiles, plerique prostrati, truncis v. ramis radicantibus. Folia in- 
tegra, 1-2 cm. longa, subtus pallida, reticulata. Amenta pluriflora, ramulos folii- 
feros terminantia; flores # diandri, glandula ventrali et dorsali, antheris flavis?; 
flores 9 ovariis pubescentibus v. glabris, stylis brevibus sed distinctis, stigmatibus 
bifidis, glandula una ventrali v. interdum ut videtur etiam dorsali. ; 
I doubt if the species united by Rydberg in this section really belong in the same 
group. 
111. Salix ovalifolia Trautvetter in Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Mosc. II. 306 (1832), 
fide Ledebour, Fl. Ross. III. pt. 2, 620 (1850). — Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. 
XVI. pt. 2, 291 (pro parte) (1868). — Lundstróm in Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Upsal. ser. 
3, 1877, 40, t., fig. 2 (Weid. Now. Semljas) (1877), ut videtur tantum var. fypwa. — 
Herder in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 444 (1891). — Rydberg in Bull. N. York Bot. 
Gard. 1. 275 (1899). 
NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Yakutsk: “in terra Tschuktschorum," A. vom 
Chamisso & J. F. Eschscholiz (ex Ledebour); Maritime Prov.: “ad fl. Ajan, 
H. Tiling (ex Herder); Kamtchatka: “in alpibus," K. H. Mertens (in herb. 
Trautvetter). 
According to Lundström (l. c. 16), S. ovalifolia is nearly related to S. reptans 
Ruprecht, but it certainly is very difficult to limit the typical forms. They are 
apparently very variable and are connected by intermediate forms with S. arctica 
Pallas, S. glauca Linnaeus and other species. The typical S. ovalifolia Trautvetter 
has glabrous ovaries, the pedicels and styles are sometimes short, but distinct and 
sometimes are wanting or nearly obsolete. s: 
According to the description, I believe that S. erythrocarpa Komarov (in Fedde, 
Rep. Spec. Nov. XIII. 165 [1914]) is the same as or very closely related to S. ovalifolia. 
The type was collected by Komarov *'in alpibus peninsulae Kamtschatkae cirea 
lacus Natshika at Kronotzkoe, et ad fontes fl. Kamtshatka, annis 1908-09. or 
it may possibly represent a new species of sect. Lindleyanae and may be closely 
related to S. Souliei Seemen and S. brachista Schneider. 
: 112. Salix phlebophylla Andersson in Ofvers. Vetensk.- Akad. Fórh. XV.132 (1858); 
in Proc. Am. Acad. IV. 27 (Salic. Bor.-Am.) (1858); in De Candolle, Prodr. 
pt. 2, 290 (pro parte) (1868).— Rydberg in Bull. N. York Bot. Gard. I. 275 (1899). 
Saliz retusa Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Voy. Beechey, 130 (non Linnaeus) (1832).— 
Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. 11. 153 (1839).—Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald, 40 (1852). 
Salix Uva-ursi Herder in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 444 (non Pursh) (1891). 
NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Maritime Prov.: Behring Straits, Arakam 
Island, 1853-6, C. Wright (ex Rydberg). 
Rydberg, 1. c., says that the type is “ No. 96 of Herb. Hook., Barratt & Torr. 
from the Arctic Coast." Hooker, l. c. (1839), cites Hooker and Arnott, 1. c. (1832), 
where the S. retusa is said to come from Kotzebue Sound. Seemann quotes the 
same specimen and alsoaspecimen from Pelly Island collected by Pullen. Seemann 8 
1 Toepfler (Salicol. Mitteil. No. 4, 186 [1911]) cites a sect. Ovalifoliae Pokorny 
(Oester. Holzpft. 58 (1864]), but there is no such section. The name Ovalifoliae 18 
only a paragraph in a key, otherwise Pokorny has adopted the systematic arrange" 
ment of Kerner. 
