66 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. SALICACEA. 
height of twenty feet, while at Cape Lisbourne it is a shrub not more than two feet tall.’ It attains 
its largest size from the Shumagin Islands eastward ; and it is the only arborescent Willow in the 
coast region west and north of Kadiak Island.’ 
The wood of Salia Alaxensis has not been examined. It is often used as fuel by Indians and 
travelers on the headwaters of the Arctic rivers. 
Salix Alaxensis, which is one of the most beautiful and distinct of the American Willows, was 
discovered on the shores of Kotzebue Sound during the summer of 1827 by the naturalists who 
accompanied Captain F. W. Beechey in the British ship Blossom on his voyage of discovery. 
1 See Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald, 40. conditions it becomes truly arborescent inhabit. (See Coville, 
2 Dr. Frederick V. Coville, one of the botanists who accom- Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. ii. 280.) Plate decxxix. is made from 
panied the Harriman Alaskan Expedition of 1899, obtained for the drawings of specimens collected by Dr. Coville and preserved in 
first time reliable i on the distribution of this Willow on the United States National Herbarium at Washington. 
the Alaskan coast, and established the fact that under favorable 8 Teste Coville, J. c. iii. 313. 
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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Prats DCCXXIX. Sarrx ALAXxEnsts. 
. A flowering branch of the staminate tree, natural size. 
. A staminate flower with its scale, enlarged. 
A flowering branch of the pistillate tree, natural size. 
. A pistillate flower with its scale, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. A capsule, enlarged. 
. A capsule with open valves, enlarged. 
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. A leafy branch, natural size. 
