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S. Bchhiana to the Caprcae. Both sections, however, are quite distinct, 

 and Ball, in 1909, made a new section Rostratae for S. Bchhiana and S. 

 Gcyeriana, apparently overlooking Barratt's name Fulvac. 



From those of section Discolores (see my note ix) the species of the 

 Fulvae chiefly differ in their yellowish or light brown scales with a short 

 thin pubescence, their more slender and lax ainents, their comparatively 

 longer pedicels and shorter stigmas. They show a closer relationship to 

 the species of section Griscae also treated in my last note. Species Uke 

 S. Jmmilis and S. iristis with their rostrate capsules are, perhaps, better 

 placed in a separate section because they differ as nmch from the true 

 Griseae (S. sericea and S. petiolaris) as from the Fvlvac, the sjjecies of 

 which also have rostrate fruits. The taxonomic value of certain charac- 

 ters in a genus like Salix can be interpreted very differently, and I shall 



later explain how much at variance the opinions of our best salicologists 

 really are. 



The synonymy of section Fulvae is as follows: 



Sect. Fulvae Barratt, Sal. Am. sect, vii (1840). — Sect. Cinereae Borrer 

 apud Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 144 (1838), pro parte, quoad .9. rostratam. 

 Sect. Cinerascentes Andersson in Ofv. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. 122 

 (1858), pro parte. — Sect. Cinerascentes vel Caprcae Andersson in Svensk. 

 Vet.-Akad. Handl. vi. 57 (Monog. Salic.) (1867), pro parte; in De Candolle, 

 Prodr. xvi.2 215 (1868), pro parte. — Sect. Capreae Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. i. 61 (1904), pro parte, non Koch. — Sect. Rostratae Ball apud 

 Coulter & Nelson. New Man. Rocky Mts. Bot. 138 (1909). 



1. S. Bebbiana Sargent in Garden & Forest, viii. 463 (1895)- Silva ix 



131, t. 477 (1896). — Schneider, 111. Handb. Laubholzk. i. 01, fig. 11 w-w^, 



12 s (1904). — Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. ed. 2, i. 599, fig. 1471 (1913). 



S. rostrata Richardson, Bot. App. in Franklin, Narr. Jour. Folar Sea, 753 



(1823); reprint, 25; ed. 2, 705 (1823); reprint, 37; non Tliuillicr (1799). 



Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 147 (1839). — Barratt, Sal. Am. No. 25 (1840). 



Torrey, Fl. N.Y. ii. 211 (1843). - Carey apud Gray, Man. ed. 1, 428 



(1848). — Bebb apud Gray, Man. ed. 6, 482 (ISdO) . ~ S . fusca Hooker, 



Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 151 (1839), sec. specim. orlg., non Linnaeus — S. ra<7an5 



1. cinerasccns b. occidcnialis Andersson in Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. 122 



(1858), quoad pi. amcric. — 5. vagans 1. S. rostrata Andersson in Svensk. 



Vet.-Akad. Handl. vi. 87 (Monog. Salic.) (1807), quoad var. ohovatam, ex- 



clud. formis. — 5. vagans occidentalis Andersson, I. c. pro syn. subspec. 



rostratae. — S. livida occidentalis Gray, Man. ed. 5, 464 (1867). — S. vagans 'fi 



rostrata 3. obovata AndcrSson apud De Candolle, Prodr. xvi^. 227 (1868). - 



S. deprcssa c. rostrata Seemen in Ascherson & Gracbner, Svn. Mitteleur Fl 



IV. 119 (1909). " ' ' 



This species was first described by Richardson (1823) as S. rostrata. The 

 type came from the "wooded country from hit. 54° to 64° north " In the 

 herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden there is Richardson's speci- 

 men from Fort Franklin (65°) which agrees with the author's description 



