SALICACEAE. — SALIX 451 
the very narrow lanceolate acuminate dark bracts, which are densely silky on the 
inner side and on the margins and are nearly glabrous on the outside. The two 
free stamens are somewhat pubescent at the very base and about twice as long as 
the bracts; the anthers are oblong and yellow. The young leaves of which I have 
seen only a small one (2 em. long, 1 em. broad) are ovate-elliptic, acute at the ends, 
silky above and more densely silky-villose beneath. I suspect S. pachyclada is 
nearly related to S. Wallichiana Andersson and that it may represent only a form 
of this variable species. All these forms with very precocious flowers are difficult 
to understand from the lack of good old leaves from the same plants of the two 
sexes from which the flowers were gathered. 
131. Salix Starkeana Willdenow, Spec. IV. 677 (1805). — Trautvetter in Lede- 
bour, Fl. Alt. IV. 274 (1833). 
Salix livida Wahlenberg, Fl. Lapp. 272 (1812). — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 100 
(1893). — Hempel & Wilhelm, Bäume & Sträucher, II. 119, fig. 201 (1897). — 
Wolf in Izv. S.-Peterburg. Liesn. Inst. V. 85. t. 34, fig. 21-22, t. 35, fig. 1-11 
(Mam. Hayu. Hes Espon. Poce.) (1900). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 
^ ay fig. 15 k, 24 b-c (1904). — Toepffer, Salicol. Mitt. No. 4, 213-215 
1911). 
Salix depressa Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. I. 56 (pro parte, haud Linnaeus !) 
(1832). — Pokorny, Oesterr. Holzpfl. 115, t. 33, fig. 323-326 (1864). — See- 
men in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. IV. 115 (1909). — Krylov, 
Qa. Aamaa, 1217 (1909). 
Salix vagans Andersson in Ófs. Vetensk. Akad. Fórh. (1858) 121; in Proc. 
Am. Acad. IV. 61 (Salic. Bor. Am. 15) (1858); in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 
Handl. VI. 86 (1867); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 226 (1868). — 
Herder in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 404 (1891). — Komarov in Act. Hort. Petrop. 
XXII. 31 (Fl. Mansh. II.) (1904). — Nakai in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXI. 
212 (Fl. Kor. 11.) (1911). — Seemen apud Siuzev in Trav. Bot. Mus. Acad. 
Sci. St. Pétersbourg, IX. (1912) ex Toepffer, Salicol. Mitt. No.5, 248 (1912). 
Salix livida, var. Starkeana Toepffer, Salicol. Mitt. No. 4, 215 (1911). 
, The typical form (represented by S. Starkeana Willdenow and by typical S. 
livida Wahlenberg) has glabrous twigs and leaves, which are only sometimes hairy 
when young. As far as I can see, this form does not occur in eastern Asia or at 
least is much rarer than the following variety. 
Salix Starkeana, var. cinerascens Schneider, n. comb. 
Saliz livida, var. cinerascens Wahlenberg, Fl. Lapp. 275 (1812). 
Saliz depressa, var. cinerascens Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. 1. 57 (1832). 
Saliz depressa, var. velutina W. D. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv. 653 (1857). 
Saliz vagans, subspec. cinerascens, var. Linnaeana Andersson in Proc. Am. 
Acad. IV. 61 (Salic. Bor. Am. 16) (1858). 
Saliz vagans, var. a cinerascens Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 
226 (1868). 
NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Transbaikalia to Kamtchatka and Korea. 
I have seen only a specimen from the Amur River, 1865, E. Maack (No. 126). 
R Saliz depressa Linnaeus (Fl. Suec. ed. 2, 352 [1755]) is, according to Enander 
(Stud. Salic. LinnZ's Herb. 102 [1907]), a mixture of S. Caprea and some hybrid forms. 
ed € nameS. foliolosa Afzel is only cited as a synonym by Smith (in Linnaeus FI. Lapp. 
at 2, 295 [1792]. S. Starkeana Willdenow seems to be according to the citations 
S Andersson, von Seemen and Toepffer the oldest name of any form belonging to 
Wahlenberg or S. vagans Andersson. 
