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of which the dried twigs are less decidedly blackish purpje. That the pubes- 

 cence of the European species sometimes also shows a mixture of bright red 

 brown hairs is expressly stated by F. B. White (Jour. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 396 

 [1890]). 



There seems to be no doubt that S. planifolia is closely related to S. 

 phylicifolia but the only American specimen I have seen which might repre- 

 sent typical S. phylicifolia is a sterile one collected by Fernald & Wiegand 

 at Brigus Junction in the southeast corner of Newfoundland, August 5, 

 1911 (No. 5272; G.). Without flowers or fruits I am unable to decide the 

 identity of this plant, but I suspect that it belongs to S. discolor to which 

 species Fernald refers a specimen collected by him and Wiegand at St. 

 Johns a few miles east of the former locality, August 1, 1911 (No. 5256, 

 St.; G.). 



3. S. paraleuca Fernald in Rhodora xvi. 175 (1914). — S. stenocarpa 

 Fernald, 1. c. 176, non Gandoger, 1890. — Professor Fernald agrees with me 

 that S. stenocarpa cannot be separated from S. paraleuca; the differences 

 pointed out by him are too insignificant and disappear entirely in certain 

 specimens. This species of which the male plant is still unknown needs 

 further study. Its existence again proves how rich the Gaspe region is in 

 endemic species. 



Specimens Examined: Quebec Gaspe Peninsula, Gaspe District, banks of the 

 Grand River, June 20-July 3, 1904, M. L. Fernald (fr. type of paraleuca; G.)- 

 Bonaventure District, Matapedia, ledgy banks of Restigouche River, June 28, 1904, 

 M. L, Fernald (fr. type of S, stenocarpa; G.). 



4. S. planifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. Gil (181 1); ed. 2. ii. Oil (1816). 

 Poiret in Lamarck, Enc. Suppl. vi. 62 (1817). — Hooker, FL Bor.- 



Am. II. loO (1839), tantum pro parte minima. — S. phylicifolia Tuckerman 



Sc 



Man 



), non Linnaeus. — Carey in Gray, 

 Bebb in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. xvi. 39 



(1889); apud Watson & Coulter, Gray Man. ed. 6. 484 (1890). — Britton 

 & Brown, III. Fl. i. 502, fig. 1195 (1896); ed. 2. i. 600, fig. 1475 (1913). — 

 Ball in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis ix. 83 (1899). — Robinson & Fernald, 

 Gray's Man. 328, fig. 668 (1908). — S. {phylicifolia'^) discolor Andersson 

 in Ofv. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. 123 (1858), pro parte. — ? S. arbuscula 

 labradorica Andersson, 1. c. 130. — S. chlorophylla denudata Andersson in 

 Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. vi. 138 (1867); in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi.^ 

 244 (1868). — S. chlorophylla Gray, 



Ma 



Andersson sensu stricto. — Macoun, Cat. Can. PI. I. 446 (1886). — Britton, 

 Man. 318 (1901); ed. 2. 318 (1905). 



Pursli's description's very short and is based on specimens from Ander- 

 son's ^ garden which had been introduced from Labrador, There is, in my 



^ It may be stated that this is George Anderson, an English salicologist (see Britten & 

 Boulger, Biogr. Ind. Brit. Bot. 4 [1893]) who is not to be confounded with N. J. Andersson, 

 the Swedish botanist, as apparently the printer did in my second note in Bot. Gaz. lxvi. 343, 

 when he changed Anderson into Andersson. 



