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that Andersson himself recognized that resemblance in his name S. 

 fhylicoides. 



There is some doubt as to the real type locality of Andersson's Salix 

 phylicoides. He said " Hab. in arctica America occidentali (Awatcha 

 Bay : Seeman[n])." Awatcha Bay, however, is not in Alaska but in 

 southern Kamchatka. It is the bay on which the Russian port of 

 Petropavlovsk is situated. The British ship Herald, on which See- 

 mann visited the North Pacific, worked also, however, extensively in 

 Kotzebue Sound and neighboring parts of Arctic Alaska, and it is 

 probable that the type specimens came from that coast. 



lo. SALIX GLAUCA L. Grayleaf Willow. 



Plate xxxrx. 



Salix glauca L. Sp. PL 2 : 1019. 1753. 



Salix seeinxnnii'Rx'Q^^^G, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 164. 1901. 



An erect willow, commonly .5 to 1.5 meters high, with entire leaves 

 glaucous on the lower surface and permanently clothed beneath, and 

 the upper ones usually also above, with a rather thin covering of long 

 appressed hairs, the ovaries white-hair}-, and the catkin-scales light 

 brown to straw-colored. The plant was originally described from 

 noith European material but the species has a circumpolar distribution. 

 In Alaska it ranges from the shores of Bering Sea eastward to the 

 upper Yukon. 



Specimens have been examined as follows : 



White Pass. — At Bennett and Vista, F. A. Walpole, 1900 (Nos. 

 loSi, 1275). 



Glacier Bay. — On the gravels at the Muir Glacier, very scarce, 

 Coville and Kearney (No. 641a). 



Kadiak Island. — One of the commonest willows about Kadiak vil- 

 lage, Coville and Kearney (Nos. 143S, 3248, 2328, 2331), Trelease 

 and Saunders (Nos. 3362, 3367, 3477), Cole, F. A. Walpole, 1900 

 (Nos. 1 155, 1 157). At Sturgeon Bay, near Cape Karluk, Trelease 

 and Saunders (No. 3368), Brewer and Coe (No. 482). 



Shujtiagin Islands. — Abundant at Sand Point, Popof Island, and on 

 Unga Island, Coville and Kearney (No. iSoo), Trelease and Saun- 

 ders (Nos. 3369 to 3371), Kincaid, M. W. Harrington, 1 87 1-2, C. 

 H. Townsend, 1893. 



Bristol Bay. — Near Nushagak, C. L. McKay, 18S1. 



St. Michael. — On the mainland opposite the island, Frederick Fun- 

 ston, 1894 (No. 236). 



Port Clarence. — Along a stream valley in the tundra, Coville and 



