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longis parce adspersis, squamis atris, obtusis; stylo elongate," the 

 type of which was collected by Kjellman, July 31 to August i, 

 1879, on the northwestern shore of St. Lawrence Island. I cannot 

 interpret this form without having seen the type, and it is not 

 mentioned by Coville or Rydberg. There is, however, a specimen 

 before me collected by R. L. Shainwald, Jr., on Mt. McKinley, 

 1200 m., August 26, 1903 (fr. ; N.), which is very similar to S. polaris 

 in every respect, but the fruiting aments measure up to 3 cm. in 

 length and 9 mm. in width. The sessile fruits are 5-6 mm. long, 

 pubescent only toward the apex, and the distinct withered style is 

 a little longer than the stigmas. It looks to me like a new variety 

 of 5. polaris or a new species. 



6. S. UvA-URSi Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 2:610. 1814; Rydberg in 

 Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 1:278. 1899; Britton and Brown, 111. Fl. 

 1:601. Jig. 1477. 1913; Robinson and Fernald, Gray's New Man. 

 325. fig. 656. 1908. — S. Cutleri Tuckerman in Amer. Jour. Sci. 

 45:36. 1843; And. in Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 15:132. 1858; in 

 DC, Prodr. 16^:292. 1868. — 5*. Myrsinites var. parvifolia Lange, 

 Consp. Fl. Groenl. 1:108. 1880; 2:278. 1887; Fl. Dan. i7:fasc. 

 51:13. pi. 30JJ. 1883, non And. — S. ivigtutiana Lundstrom apud 

 Berhn in Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 41:89. 1884. — A well known 

 willow, of which, however, as I said before, the systematic position 

 is by no means settled. Andersson said, ''AS. arhuscula recedit 

 foliis minimis parte superiore serrulatis, amentis subterminalibus 

 et capsuhs glaberrimis. Longius a S. retusa distat. Si ut ferunt 

 auctores americani, fiores masculi staminibus tantum singulis 

 praediti sunt, tum afhnitas cum 5. coesia esset, cui etiam rigiditate et 

 glaucescentia foliorum non absimihs, sed folia subserrata et capsulae 

 glabrae." I have very rarely found two stamens in one flower, and 

 I am at present unable to give a precise opinion as to the real 

 relationship of this pecuHar species. Its range stretches from New 

 York (Mt. Marcy and Mt. Whiteface), Vermont (Camel's Hump, 

 Mt. Mansfield), New Hampshire (White Mts.), and Maine (Mt. 

 Katahdin) northward to the Gaspe Peninsula, southern and 

 western Newfoundland and the whole coast of Labrador, apparently 

 reaching the northern limit of its range at the southern shore of 

 Bafhnsland. Westward it extends through Ungava to the eastern 



