CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 16 



Paris Mus. Nat. Jarciin cles Plantes has types of Bonpland, Desvaux, Four- 

 nier, Richard, arxd Steudel. Also at Paris is the Michaux herb., the 

 Jussieux herb, and Lamarck herb. The Cosson Herb, contains the 

 Poirer types. The Museum has now the Franqueville herb., where are 

 types of Michaux and Richard and Schaffner's plants. 



Prague has Haenke's plants. 



St. Petersburg. The Herb, of the Botanic Garden has Karwmsy s plants, 

 F. Mueller's and some of Founder's plants. At the Academy Imp. are 

 Trinius's plants. 



S!o.-kholm has types of I' '• Swartz^ plants.^ 



Vi, una has an important herbarium. T "~ 



Hackel Herb. 



Salix in southern Califoru 



February). It is the most common willow, and is evidently related to S. 



ordata having the two stamens, black-tipped scales and smooth pods, and 



ag out before the leaves. Bebb m the 



lora of California makes a variety out of a form said to have leafy bracts, 



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jut does not bloom till 

 »iate of nature, would t 



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 - -aisht and er< ;Ild a fe , w l ? c ™f 



, , ... -. -i.„ „i„„* a nn inclined to be dead- 



, and branching racenwsely above. The plants 

 but leaves often hang 



;er. The leaves are whitish below and 



^"'Sanx laevigata grows more sparingly along with lasiolepis and is more 

 ndined to be a tree and more like an evergreen. The male trees sometimes 

 rive led twigs ! >i»- Tht> ™ tkins of laslol ^P ls are 



Y- v- liacar\'nd elongated. Those of laevigata (the mal e ° nes ) c a ^ ^der 

 ml inclined to taper at the ends, and 1 



; black willows. Then tire fertile catkin. 

 • and leafy-pedunc 

 waxy-glossy-green 



very slender and leafy-peduncled, and with long pedicels „, »~ 



vax<. -lossy-green above, and the trees bloom a month later 

 he black willows. The leaves of lasiolepis are 

 wider above as in cordata, and are thinner. All the black 

 Yn;,YY lYvYtl e t; iciing tips to the leaves and are inclined to be conspicu- 

 ously serrate. The black willows are laevigata, nigra, amygdaloides, Bon- 

 ^'""^supp^elhat^he^name of "black" willow arose from the fact that the 

 charcoal used in black powder came from them. 



Lilium Fairchildi n. sp. Two years ago I took with my friend Dr 

 Fairchild a trip to the Palomar, a high and short range west of Warner s. 

 Hot Springs, in search of Ifl -- ™ ,s range goes up into 



the Middle Temperate and is clothed thickly with Pmus ponderosa, Abies 



