344 SALICACEAE 



Am. vol. 2, p. 144 (1853), the type being from the northern Rocky Mts., coll. by Drummoncl. 

 Var. VILLOSA Andersson, Sal. Bor. Am. p. 22 (1858). S. glaucops Andersson in DeCandolle, 

 Prodr. vol. 16, pt. 2, p. 281 (1868). 



14. S. californica Bebb. SIERRA WILLOW. Shrub 2 to 5 feet high, closely 

 related to the preceding; leaves mostly oblong, acute at apex obtuse at base, 

 appressed-villous and gray (or the young parts densely white tomentose), often 

 glabrescent and green, finely glandular serrate, % to 2 inches long, 5 to 9 

 lines broad; margin of small leaves at base of both leafy and flowering shoots 

 thickly studded with glands; stipules ovate, lanceolate or none; catkins on 

 short leafy peduncles, the staminate y 2 inch, the pistillate a /2 to 1 inch long 

 (in fruit 1 to 1% inches long); scales dark, villous; ovary hoary-tomentose ; 

 style elongated, stigmas oblong, bifid or entire; capsule brown, finely pubes- 

 cent, 2 to 3 lines long. 



Sierra Nevada, 7,000 to 9,000 feet : House Meadows on North Fork Kings 

 River ; Mt. Goddard ; Crescent Lake, Mariposa Co. ; Yosemite National Park ; 

 Soda Springs of the Tuolumne; Summit, Placer Co.; near Mt. Lola, Nevada 

 Co. No more than a subspecies or variety of the preceding it is distinguishable 

 only by its glandular-serrate leaves which are, however, sometimes entire on 

 the same branch. 



Ref. SALIX CALIFORNICA Bebb in Bot. Cal. vol. 2, p. 89 (1880). 



15. S. barclayi And. BARCLAY WILLOW. Dwarf shrub; leaves white- 

 tomentose when young, soon green, dark-veined, narrowly obovate, obtuse or 

 bluntly acute, tapering to the shortly petioled base, entire or sometimes 

 serrulate, % to 1% inches long; catkins on short leafy peduncles, dense, % to 

 1^ inches long, 4 to 5 lines broad, the scales very black and covered with 

 long white pilose hairs ; stamens 2, filaments sometimes united Vs their length ; 

 ovary and capsule glabrous or nearly so, green, pediceled; style long, stigmas 

 2-lobed. 



Subalpine: Marble Mt., Siskiyou Co., 6,000 feet; Warner Mts., Modoc Co..; 

 northward into Oregon and far northward. 



Eefs. SALIX BARCLAYI Andersson, in Oefvers. Vet. Akad. Foerhandl. vol. 15, p. 125 (1858) ; 

 Bebb in Bot. Death Val. Exped. p. 198 (1893) ; Jones, Willow Fam. Great Plateau, p. 

 16 (1908). 



16. S. monica Bebb. MONO WILLOW. Procumbent or erect branching shrub. 

 1 to 2 feet high ; branchlets dark red ; leaves ovate, acute at apex, acutish at 

 base, ostensibly entire but obscurely and remotely serrulate, bright green above, 

 somewhat pale below, glabrous or nearly so, Vs to l l / 2 inches long, 3 to 7 lines 

 broad, rather conspicuously feather veined, the veins dark or black; petioles 

 1 to 3 lines long; stipules none; scales roundish ovate, hairy; catkins small 

 and short, densely flowered, sessile or subsessile; bracts none or few and 

 small; fruiting catkins % inch long; style medium sized, stigma usually 

 entire ; capsule brown, glabrate, sessile or subsessile, 2 lines long. 



Sierra Nevada, local in the Tuolumne Meadows region, 9,000 to 11,000 

 feet altitude: Mono Pass, Mono Co., W. H. Brewer, no. 1732 (1863), J. W. 

 Congdon (1894) ; Soda Springs of the Tuolumne, J. W. Congdon (1898) ; 

 Yosemite National Park, Katherine Jones (1907). Obscure and little known 

 species, possibly referable to some northern type. 



Eefs. SALIX MONICA Bebb in Bot. Cal. vol. 2, p. 90 (1880), Bot. Gaz. vol. 16, p. 107 (1891). 



17. S. tenera And. ALPINE WILLOW. Stems with very short often tortuous 

 branches forming a depressed or prostrate plant body 1 to 4 inches high; 

 flowering shoots 1 to 6 inches high; leaves oblong and acute, ovate-lanceolate, 



