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1 to 2 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, the margin revohite; stipules none; fruit- 

 ing catkin 1 inch long. — Donner Pass, according to Bot. Cal., vol. 2, p. 87. 



Kefs. — S.\Li,x siTCHENSis Sanson in Bonganl, Veg. Sitoh. p. 1(;2 (1831) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. p. 137 (1901). Var. .\N(:ustifoli.\ Bebb in Bot. Cal. vol. 2, p. 87 (1880). S. coulteri 

 Andersson in Oefvers. Vet. Akad. Foerliandl, vol. 15, p. 119 (1858) ; Bebb in Bot. Cal. vol. 

 2, p. 90 (1880). 



11. S. lemmoni Bebb. Lemmon's Willow. Shrub 5 to 13 feet high; leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, entire, green, nearly alike on both faces, 

 glabrous or nearly so. dark-veined, 1 to IVi; inches long, 3 lines broad ; petioles 

 1 or 2 lines long; stipules snuiU, soon deciduous; catkins ^.i; inch long on very 

 short peduncles with 2 or 3 foliaceous In'acts; scales pitch-black, usually 

 roiuided, villous; stamens 2, filaments slightly puberulent at base; style 

 short, stigmas short-linear, entire; ovary and capsule grayish tomentose or 

 the latter glabrate ; pedicels in fruit Y2 to Y^ line long. 



Sierra Nevada, 7,000 to 8,000 feet altitude from ilariijosa Co.. Congdon, 

 northward to Plumas Co., and Wa.shoe Co., Nevada; AVasatch Sits.. Utah; 

 eastern Oregon. First collected b.v J. 6. Leramon, a pioneer Californian bot- 

 anist, in Sierra Co. The staminate flowers exceptionally bear 4 stamens, the 

 tilaments partl.v united in pairs, or 1 pair distinct. 



Refs.— Salix lemmoxi Bebb in Bot. Cal. vol. 2, p. 88 (1880), Bot. Gaz. vol. 16, p. 106 

 (1891); Jones, Willow Fam. Great Plateau, p. 16 (1908). S. austiiiae Bebb in Bot. Cal. 

 vol. 2, p. 88 (1880), Bot. Gaz. vol. 16, p. 106 (1891); this name was founded on a mixture 

 of material representing S. lemmoni and one or two other species. 



12. S. breweri Bebb. Brewer AVillow. Shrub; young leaves oblong, 

 shortly acute, entire, white-pilose above but soon becoming green except along 

 the midrib, white below with a close tomentum, % to 1 inch long, 2 to 3 lines 

 wide; mature leaves green and puberulent above, rugose beneath and whi- 

 tened with a thin but dense felt-like covering, entire, 2 to 2I/2 inches long, 

 3 to 4 lines wide; petioles almost none; stipules of sterile shoots small, ovate, 

 acute; catkins appearing before the leaves, dense, % inch long, 3 to 4 lines 

 thick, sessile, with 2 or 3 small bracts at base; scales yellow, rounded at apex, 

 rather densely pilose on both sides ; stamens 2 ; filaments glabrous ; nectary 

 filiform, very long; ovary and capsule hoary; style elongated, stigmas 2-eleft. 



San Carlos Range : Mt. San Carlos, W. II. Brewer, no. 788, July 23, 1861, 

 3,500 feet altitude (type loc.) ; headwaters of San Benito River, low crouching 

 shrub along water's edge, W. L. Jepson, no. 2709, May 12, 1907. 4,000 feet 

 altitude. Not otherwise known. 



Ref.— Salix beeweri Bebb in Bot. Cal. vol. 2, p. 88 (1880). 



13. S. glauca L. var. villosa And. Shrub 2 to 4 feet high; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or taper-pointed, entire, green above, slightly glaucous be- 

 neath, pubescent or subglabrous, when young villous tomentose, 1 to 2i/> 

 inches long, 3 to 7 lines wide; petioles almost none to 3 lines long; stipules 

 lanceolate or none ; catkins I/2 to % inch long, on leafy-bracteate peduncles, 

 the staminate peduncles very short or almost none; scales hairy, dark, turning 

 reddish; stigmas entire or 2-lobed; fruiting catkins % to II/2 inches long; 

 ovary hoary or tomentulose ; capsule brown, finel.y pubescent, 3 to 4 lines long. 



Sierra Nevada, 8.000 to 11.000 feet altitude: Farewell Gap. W.L.J, no. 1150; 

 Bullfrog Lake, Soutli Fork Kings, W.L.J, no. 851 ; San Joaquin, South Forlc, 

 Hall & Chandler; Chilnualna Trail, Mariposa Co., J. W. Congdon, northward 

 and far northward. 



Refs. — Salix glauca Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1019 (1853). .S'. viUom Don in Hooker, Fl. Bor. 



