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downy when young, soon smooth: leaves oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 
acute, or the earliest obtuse with an abrupt point, narrowed at base ‘into 
short peeglee) dark green above except the whitish-pubescent midrib, 
covered beneath with a lustrous white and satiny tomentum, entire or 
obsoletely crenate: stipules reniform, often wanting: aments appearing 
with the leaves, with a few small bracts at base, slender, densely flowered; 
the staminate 1-2 inches long, the obovate obtuse dark scales pubescent 
with long hairs; pistillate aments 12-18 lines long, the dark-colored scales 
pubescent: capsule ovate-conic, acute, densely white-tomentose: style 
elongated: stigmas scarcely emarginate, thick, erect. Common along 
streams, California to Alaska. 
S. pellita Anders. Monogz. Sal. 139, fiig. 72, g. A shrub with green- 
ish-red to dark red shining twigs, when young, sometimes covered with a 
glaucous bloom: leaves numerous, narrowly oblanceolate, acute or acumin- 
ate, or the lower obtuse, 144-2 inches long, 4-6 lines wide, the margins - 
entire or obscurely crenate, revolute, dull green and thinly pubescent 
above, becoming glabrous, densely and persistently silvery-tomentose be- 
neath: petioles slender, 2-3 lines long: stipules only on vigorous shoots, 
semi-cordate, 2-3 lines long: pistillate aments on short bractless peluncles, 
thick, very densely flowered, about an inch long: scales pilose, acute, 
tawny, dark at the apex: capsule tomentose, becoming glabrate, ovate- 
conical, acute, a line long, on short pedicels: style elongated; stigmas 
thick, entire, erect. Brit. Columbia to California. 
S. Lemmoni Bebb Bot. Cal. ii, 88. A shrub 6-15 feet high: branches 
slender, at first covered with short appressed hairs, becoming smooth: 
leaves lanceolate, acute or acuminate at both ends, entire or remotely sub- 
serrate, silky-pubescent, when young, paler beneath, slender-petioled : 
stipules small, semi-ovate, acute, serrate, deciduous: aments oblong or 
cylindrical, rather densely flowered, appearing with the leaves, on short 
peduncles bearing 2-3 small acute leaf-like bracts: scales obovate, obtuse 
or somewhat acute, black, thinly pilose: capsule ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
grayish-tomentose, 2-3 lines long: style medium sized: stigmas erect, en- 
tire. Along streams, eastern Oregon to California. 
.,S. glaucops Anders. in DC. Prodr. xvi, 281. I have neither speci- 
mens nor description of this species: it is a low cespitose shrub growing on 
the sides of high mountains, Idaho to Montana aud Wyoming. 
S. glauca var. villosa Anders. Sal. Bor. Am. 22. A diffuse shrub 
3-7 feet high, with short and stout branches: leaves oblanceolate, acute or 
. Short acuminate, attenuate at base, 2-4 inches long, varying from soft- 
villous to scarcely pilose when young, at length glabrate and rigid, more 
or less glaucous beneath: stipules linear-lanceolate rather persistent: 
aments short-peduncled, the pistillate when mature sometimes very large, 
2-3 inches long and 34 inch thick: scales oblong-obovate, rather acute, 
brownish: capsule lanceolate, acuminate, tomentose, at length subglabrate, 
shortly pedicelled: style short or scarcely produced: stigmas bifid or entire. 
Mount Hood Oregon to California. 
S. petrophila Rydb. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden i, 268.° S. arctica var* 
petrea Anders. A dwarf creeping shrub with suberect branches only 2-4 
inches long, leafy at the top: leaves lanceolate, tapering somewhat equally 
to the base and apex, an inch long, entire, green on both sides, slightly 
paler and prominently nerved beneath: aments terminal, erect, at length 
thick and densely flowered, an inch or two long: scales thin, brownish, 
sparsely pilose: capsule ovate-conical, 2-3 lines long, silky, subsessile: 
style very much elongated, slender: stigmas bifid, divaricate. On high 
mountains, eastern Oregon to California and the Rocky Mountains. 
S. tenera Anders. in DC. Prodr. xvi, 288. I have not seenspecimens 
