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characterize some as new. Certain others, as yet known only from 
foliage-specimens, seem to be unique; but these are naturally reserved 
for further study when flowering or fruiting material has been secured. 
SALIX MYRTILLIFOLIA Anderss. The complex of British American 
and Rocky Mountain shrubs passing as S. novae-angliae Anderss. or as 
S. pseudo-myrsinites Anderss. is at present inadequately represented in 
herbaria, but, if one may judge from the material now available, they 
all belong to one general specific type. It is hardly correct, however, 
to use for the species, as we have recently done, the name S. pseudo- 
myrsinites or, as was done a generation ago, the name S. novae-angliac. 
Andersson, who described numerous minor variants of this group, 
named and renamed the same shrubs in a perplexing fashion. The 
first publication of any distinctive names for these northern shrubs 
was by Andersson, who, in 1858 (Ofvers. af K. Vet.-Akad. Fórh. Arg. 
15. No. 3, pp. 129, 130) credited the Old World S. myrsinites with two 
American subspecies: S. myrsinites, 1. S. pseudo-myrsinites Andersson, 
" Hab. ’on the grand rapid of Sascatchavan, et in’ Rocky mountains' ;" 
and S. myrsinites, 2. S. curtiflora Andersson, “Hab. ’Fort Franklin, 
Mackenzieriver, Richardson’;” while on a succeeding page (132) he 
published the closely related S. myrtillifolia as a fully ranking new 
species from "Rocky mountains, east side, low situations." 
Of these three plants there is in the Gray Herbarium a cotype of S. 
myrsinites, 1. S. pseudo-myrsinites, labeled by Andersson himself and 
closely agreeing with the original description in having the conic- 
subulate capsules pedicelled (the mature pedicels nearly equaling or 
slightly exceeding the pale brown scales). This authentic material 
is well matched by fruiting specimens from the eastern watershed of the 
continent — such plants as Fernald & Wiegand's no. 3161 from Blanc 
Sablon, Labrador; material collected by Macoun on July 30, 1869, on 
Pic River, Ontario; and M. A. Barber's no. 281 from alt. 6000 ft., 
Banff, Alberta; but many of the foliage-specimens referred to S. 
pseudo-myrsinites and all the material so-called from west of the 
Rocky Mountain system seem to be different. Of the other two 
plants, S. myrsinites, 2. S. curtiflora and S. myrtillifolia, only unveri- 
fied and inadequate material has been seen, although in the Gray 
Herbarium there is a fragmentary specimen collected by Richardson 
at Fort Franklin and seemingly a cotype of S. myrsinites, 2. S. 
curtiflora, but labeled by Andersson S. myrtillifolia. 
In his later publications, his Monographia Salicum and his treatment 
