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21, 1903 (nos. 196, 198; W.), which Rydberg regards as "near" 

 niphodada but with much broader and shorter leaves." The 

 young leaves do not differ from those of the female specimen no. 

 194 previously cited, but the young male aments are very short, 

 not exceeding i cm. in length and o . 5 cm. in thickness. Otherwise 

 the flowers agree with those of var. acutifolia. If the size of the 

 male aments should prove a reliable character, and if the male plant 

 should belong to the same form as the female no. 194, this form 

 might prove to be a new one more closely related to S. cordifolia. 

 See also my remarks under S. niphodada as to the size of male 

 aments. 



There is a male specimen collected by Seton and Pringle, July 

 19, 1907, near Caribou Island, Great Slave Lake (no. 43 [78305 O.]), 

 which has been named S. atra Rydbg. by Ball. At first sight it 

 resembles a great deal Preble's nos. 196 and 198 mentioned above, 

 but the leaves, which seem to be almost fully grown, measure only 

 up to 3.6:1.6 cm. The flowers of the one small catkin (2.3:0.9 

 cm.) I could examine show no trace of a dorsal gland, and the hairy 

 filaments are connected for ^ to | of their length. So far this form 

 remains rather doubtful. 



26. S. CORDIFOLIA Pursh. — The male syntype of S. lahradorica 

 mentioned {I.e. 345) bears the number 21, not 31, of Waghorne. 



27. S. ANAMESA Schn.— In his Fl. Europ. 21:157. 1890, Gan- 

 DOGER has described under S. glauca the following 4 new subspecies 

 from Greenland: 5. eskimorum (type: Peter^ew, JuHanehaab) ; S. 

 groenlandica, non Heer, nee Lundstrom (type: Rink, Godthaab); 

 5. platycarpa (type: /. Vahl, Ikilok), and {I.e. 158) S. Vahlii 

 (type: /. Vahl, Ikilok). Judging by the characters given in the 

 key, all these names refer to a form having "foHa anguste hneari- 

 oblonga, 5-12 mm. lata," which are "supra semper canescentia et 

 villosa vel tomentosa" in the last two forms, while they are "supra 

 glabra aut glabrescentia et viridia" in the first two. Not having 

 seen the types, I am unable to say to which species these forms really 

 belong, but I presume they may be referable to what I have called 

 S. anamesa. In giving binary names to those forms Gandoger did 

 the same as Andersson did in several instances in his monograph. 

 I beheve, however, that these binomials cannot be regarded as 



