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non Willd. apud Schleicher." — S. retusa Hooker and Arnott, Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. 130. 1832, non L. — S. arctica /3 minor Ledeb., Fl, Ross. 

 3:619. 1849-51. — S. {retusa) phlehophylla And. in Ofv. K. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forh. 15:131. 1858, pro parte maxima. — S. arctica /3 huxi- 

 folia [recte minor] Ledeb. ex And. in DC, I.e. 290, pro synon. — S. 

 palaeoneura Rydbg. in Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 1:267. 1899. — The 

 history of this peculiar willow, which had been thoroughly described 

 by Trautvetter, is well given by Coville. Andersson's "spe- 

 cies" is always quoted from 1858, but at this time he published 

 the name phlehophylla only as a varietal designation, distinguishing 

 3 forms: major, media, and minor, which he rightly omitted in 

 1868. I saw a photograph and fragments of all his types pre- 

 served in Herb K. The f. minor may be represented by a speci- 

 men like Tur7ier's no. 1293 in part (f. ; G.), collected in 1879 on 

 Atka Island. Turner (Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska 75. 1886) men- 

 tions a S. rotundijolia var. retusa from Atka Island, "with its 

 heads of cottony catkins peering just above the surface of the other 

 vegetation." I am not quite sure whether he refers to the form 

 before me or not. Rydberg has mentioned the specimen which I 

 have seen under S. Dodgeana, but the leaves do not show the 

 finely impressed veins on the upper surfaces, and the female 

 flowers are very similar to those of S. phlehophylla, having, however, 

 a dorsal gland. This form needs further observation, and the 

 species has not yet been recorded so far south in Alaska, where it 

 inhabits the northwestern and northern coast from Norton Sound 

 to Point Barrow. According to Coville it was also collected on 

 the Porcupine River by Turner in 1891, and Seemann (Bot. Voy. 

 Herald 40. 1852) reported it from Belly's Island at the mouth of 

 the Mackenzie River. On the Siberian coast of Bering Strait C. 

 Wright collected it on Arakam (or Kayne) Island. I have also 

 seen a specimen from near Glacier in southeastern Alaska collected 

 in June 1914 by Mary Milvain (m., f. ; A.). 



II. S. Dodgeana Rydbg. in Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 1:277. 1899; 

 Fl. Rocky Mts. 195. 191 7; Ball in Coult. and Nels., New Man. 



" According to Seringe, Essai Men. Saules Suisse 54. 181 5, the name S. bitxifolia 

 Willd. was used first by Schleicher, Cat. Sal. i. 1809, where it is a nomen nudum, as 

 well as in ed. 3 of Schleicher's Cat. PI. Helv. 25. 1815. This name has to be used, so 

 far as I understand it, for the hybrid 5. glaiicaXS. reticulata; see Brand in Koch's 

 Syn. D. Schw. Fl. ed. 3. 3:2357. 1907. 



