326 
BOTANY. 
in shape. — The specimens have lanceolate or oblanceolate leaves, l-S' long, 
3-6" wide, hght-green, short silky-pubescent or subglabrous, especially above ; 
young aments 1-1' long, becoming 1-2' in length at maturity. 2-3° high, 
diffusely branched, with short and stout branchlets. On the shores of sub- 
alpine lakes in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 
9,000 feet altitude. June-August. (1,099.) 
Salix arctica, E. Br. DC. Prodr. IG. 2. 286. Aments lateral and subter- 
minal upon long strict leafy peduncles, erect, rather thick and densely flowered ; 
scales obovate, obtuse, pale or dark- colored, pilose ; capsule conic from an 
ovate base, tomentose or glabrous, the short pedicel rather exceeding the 
gland ; style middle-sized, becoming brown, with divaricately parted stig- 
mas ; leaves obovate, oval or spatulate-lanceolate, entire or obsoletely and re- 
motely serrulate, at length smooth, glaucous beneath.— In various forms, 
from latitude 64° to Behring Strait, the Arctic Sea, and Greenland ; Una- 
laska ; Labrador ; Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In the Uintas, at 
11-12,000 feet altitude, in broad clumps, a foot in height. Perhaps nearest 
Var. Brownei, And., but not according closely with any of the described 
varieties ; leaves 1-W long, 4-9" broad, oblong or rather oblong-lanceolate, 
usually broadest above the middle, rounded at base, acute or short-acumi- 
nate, slightly woolly or silky-pubescent, becoming glabrous, glaucous be- 
neath, remotely serrulate or entire ; sterile aments small, 2-4" long, the 
fertile ^-V long, on villous, not very long peduncles ; scales dark and villous ; 
capsules sliort-pedicelled, tomentose. (1,100.) 
Salix piilebophylla. And. DC. Prodr. 16. 2. 290. Aments upon 
lateral leafy branchlets or terminal, cylindric, rather short, densely flowered, 
erect ; scales round-ovate, dark, pilose or bearded with long white hairs ; 
capsules ovate-conic, brownish, puberulent, sessile; gland exceeding the 
base of the capsule ; style elongated, brown, as well as the divaricately 
parted stiirmas; leaves oblong-obovate, very shortly acuminate or subobtuse, 
coriaceous, persistent, entire, colored alike on both sides, almost always with 
scattered white hairs l)cneath and upon the margins, otherwise perfectly 
glabrous and sliining, the parallel nerves strongly prominent on both sides.— 
In Northwestern Arctic America andUnalaska; also collected by Lyall on 
the summits of the Cascade :\I()untains. Uintas; 10-11,000 feet altitude • 
August. Very dwarf and slender, the leafy decumbent stems scarcely an 
inch in length; leaves 2-5" long and 1" wide; aments 3-4" long. (1,101.) 
