1920] SCHNEIDER, NOTES ON AMERICAN WILLOWS. X 83 



plant. The Victoria collectors cannot find it. My own feeling was that 

 it is not distinct from the very common S. MacJcenziana the leaves of which 



beneath 



Willow 



this coast at least, mature very slowly and it is often midsummer before 

 they assume the final shape and character. It does not seem to me that 

 the analysis of Piper & Beattie in their Flora of the North West Coast is 

 very satisfying as far as these two species are concerned, Salix Mackenziana 

 about Victoria, B.C., is often a low shrub, while the scales are not black 

 even when dry. The stipules, too, vary. Possibly, however, the specimens 

 I enclose from New Westminster (from a shrub ... on the moist bank of 

 the Frazer River) you may consider S. prolixa," 



I am not able to give a final judgment on these specimens. The type of 

 S. prolixa is not sufficient to decide the question whether it is a good species 

 or not. It does not possess well-matured fruits and leaves. Henry may be 

 right that the plant which is considered to be S. prolixa by Ball does not 

 represent a distinct species. On the other hand, S. prolixa may belong to 

 those good species which have a very limited distribution, and are still in 

 need of a better understanding. Not being well enough acquainted with 

 some western forms of the Cordatae group I leave it to Ball and other 

 salicologists to demonstrate the true taxonomic value of Andersson's 

 species. 



3, S. fuscescens Andersson in Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. vi. 97 (1867); in 



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dr. XVI 



Coville in Proc. Wash. 



Acad. Sci. iii. 329, fig. 25 (1901). — S. myHilloides f . 1 et 2 Chamisso in 

 Linnaea, vi. 539 (1831). — S. rhamnifolia Hooker & Arnott, Bot, Voy. 

 Beechey, 117, t. 26 (1832), excl citat., non Pallas. — S. phlehophyUa Ryd- 

 berg in Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. i. 274 (1895), ex parte, quoad pL Cape Blos- 

 som, non Andersson. — This species has been founded upon Hooker's S. 

 rhamnifolia from "Awatschka Bay, in lat. 53"",'* Kamtchatka, the type 

 of which was collected by Beechey & Mertens and is still unknown to me. 

 In 1858, Andersson mentioned S. rhamnifolia Hooker but then he evidently 

 was not quite sure whether this was identical with the plant Pallas and 

 Ledebour took for this species. He also cited Chamisso*s S. myrsinites (in 

 Linnaea vi. 540) *'ad sinum S:cti Laurentii" of which I have not seen the 

 type, and also Chamisso's forms 1 and 2 of S. myrtilloides which, too, I 

 have had no opportunity to compare. No. 1 came "e sinu Eschscholtzii" 

 in Alaska, while No. 2 was collected "in paludibus prope Tigil Kamtschat- 

 cae occidentalis." In 1867 Andersson proposed the name S. fuscescens for 

 what Hooker has called and figured as S, rhamnifolia. Andersson's fig. 54 

 quoted by him in 1868 is not given in his monograph. 



Judging by the description and figure given by Hooker and by Ander- 



believe 



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Alaska 



I have not seen it 

 the 150°. The fol- 



seen 



