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(Avatcha, Avatchka, or Avacha) Bay is, however, as Coville (1901) already 

 explained in southern Kamtchatka. On the northside of it is the harbor 

 Petropavlosk where the ship "Herald," on which Seemann traveled, was 

 in August 1848 when the type of S. phylicoidcs was collected according to 

 the specimen in the Kew Herbarium. Andersson probably drew up Ins 

 description from other specimens also collected by Seemann m the autumn 

 of 1848 or 1849 in northwestern Alaska, but he does not cite them In 18b7 

 however, in his note to S. fulcrata (see later), the type of which has not 

 been collected by Seemann, he mentions specimens of this collector without 

 identifying them, and he cites, under S. phylicoidcs, only Seemann s plant 



from Awatcha Bay. •, .• i „,ui^ 



S. vhylicoides has been regarded by Bebb (see later) as identical with 

 the forms referred here to S. vulchra, but after having seen a good photo- 

 graph and fragments of Andersson's type (Seemann, no. 1294, tr. im.; J^.; 

 I believe that it represents a different species not known from America. 

 In S. vhylicoides the stipules are, as Andersson correctly stated, small, 

 linear-lanceolate, hardly more than 2 mm. long, and apparently deciduous 



or entirely wanting. . , , tt n iQorieR7l^ 



As to S. fulcrata Andersson (in Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. vi. 139 [186. ) 



the following can be said. The author mentions as a synonym S. cordata 



var. Seemann, Voy. Herald 54, where only the locality " Fort Simpson to 



Bear Lake River " (Andersson quotes * to Great Barelake ) is given, ilie 



collector was Capt. W. J. S. Pullen. I have not seen this specimen, nor 



the one cited by Andersson of Stubbendorff from Kamtchatka. In his 



remarks Andersson says: " Hujus formae tantum specimma perpauca 



examinare mihi licitum fuit, ut de iis vix certi quidquam urgere audeam. 



S. vhylicoidi et S. chlowphyllae sine dubio maxime est affinis. b rom botn 



it differs by its large linear-lanceolate stipules. The leaves are said 



to measure from " 3-4 pollices " in length being above the ^^^dle . 1 



poll " wide. Such leaves may be observed on strong shoots of S. piUchra, 



and I believe that tWs American form of S. fulcrata can be regarded as 



identical with our species but I have not yet seen a specimen of ^. pulchra 



from the region between Fort Simpson and Great Bear Lake or from an 



other part of the western Northwest Territories ^xc^P^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^: 



ment of Richardson's from Fort Franklin (no. 64. Hb. H.B. & T. f., m. 



N.O. 



[folia 



which seems to meet S. pulchra in the Mackenzie region. 



If Andersson's fig. 73 on plate vil, in his monograph 1867) really repre- 

 sents the typical S. fulcrata it certainly does not fit the description because 

 the!tipulefare not very large, linear-lanceolate and longer than the petioles 

 but more or less ovate and as long as the petiole. Neither does the dra^^^- 



/ 



"a 



B. suhphylicifolia of which the autnor expressiy ..<.... ..^^^^^ 



S phyUcifolia . . . optime distinguitur stipulis petiolum brevem 

 'saepe quadruplo superantibus." I doubt if this variety is identical 



1 For abbreviations for herbaria see footnote on p. 1. 



