Von SEEMEN: WILLOWS FROM THE FAR WEstT 635 
Salix Bakeri 
Tree or shrub 5-10 m. high: twigs dark brown, smooth, but 
the young tips with very short sparse gray pubescence : petioles not 
over 0.5 cm. long, with very short gray pubescence ; leaf-blades 
lanceolate or spatulate-lanceolate, 6 cm. long or less by 1.5 cm. 
wide, acute, the basal half narrowed to the petiole and acute (leaves 
at base of branches with the apex round with a short point), entire 
or very shallowly serrate with minute teeth, with very short gray 
pubescence, the upper surface becoming smooth, bright green and 
shining, the lower bluish green and dull; midrib slightly prominent 
on the upper, strongly so on the lower surface; nervature wide- 
meshed, depressed from the upper surface, slightly prominent be- 
neath: aments appearing before the leaves; the subtending scales dirty 
yellow-brown, with sparse, short, gray hairs: staminate aments 
erect, with very short peduncles (clothed with dense, short, light gray 
. hairs and bearing minute, light gray-pubescent, bract-like leaves), 
cylindrical, 3 cm. long or less, 1.2 cm. thick, somewhat curved, 
dense-flowered ; the axis with dense, short, bright gray pubes- 
cence ; bracts obovate, apex rounded, the upper half dark, the 
lower light, brown, bearded with long light gray hairs ; stamens 2, 
free, smooth, not over three times as long as the bract ; anthers 
oval, yellow; gland 1, posterior, narrowly subulate, one half the 
length of the scale or less: pistillate aments erect, pedunculate like 
the staminate, cylindrical, 5 cm. long or less, I cm. thick, some- 
what curved, dense-flowered ; axis like the staminate ; bracts ob- 
long, almost truncate, in other respects like the staminate ; capsule 
with a smooth stipe two thirds its own length, flask-shaped with 
narrowly ovate base, apex with short gray hairs ; style not over one 
third as long as the stipe ; stigma short, forked, emarginate ; gland 
I, posterior, narrowly subulate, not over one third as long as the 
Stipe. 
Foothills near Stanford University, Santa Clara County, Cali- 
fornia. (C. F. Baker, Plants of the Pacific Slope, 0. 274, 
March 9 and May 10, 1902.) 
Salix Ormsbyensis 
A low, spreading shrub, with short, ash-gray, smooth branches : 
petioles 5 mm. long, or less, smooth, or sparingly short-pubes- 
cent when young ; leaf-blades lanceolate, 4 cm. long or less, 1 cm. 
Wide, acute, the base obtuse, entire or finely serrate, smooth (only 
the young leaves silky beneath), both surfaces light green ; mid- 
rib and nerves slightly prominent; stipules not well developed, 
Semiovate, acute, finely serrate, smooth ; aments appearing with 
