p 



Salix. SALICACE^E. 87 



silky-tomentose, on pedicels hardly as long as the scales : styles obsolete ; stigmas 

 long, entire or deeply parted, the linear lobes indexed. Sylva, i. 65. S. brachy- 

 stachys, Benth. PI. Hartw. 336 ; Anders. Sal. Monogr. 82, fig. 48, and DC. Prodr. 

 xvi 2 . 224. S. siagnafis, Xutt. Sylva, i. 66 1 S. Scouleriana, Barratt ; Hook. Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. ii. 145, in part. S. capreoides, Anders. Sal. Bor.-Am. 11. 



Santa Barbara (Mrs. Elwood Cooper) ; woods near Monterey (Harlweg); also collected by Coul- 

 ter, but the locality uncertain ; Santa Cruz Mountains, Dr. C. L. Anderson, who says that this 

 willow is " generally found on mountain-sides near springy places and as a kind of undergrowth 

 for trees : old trees, 10 to 20 feet high, have a round bushy top, very straggling and with a pro- 

 fusion of branchlets ; bark fissured, brownish-gray ; twigs with a very strong mephitic odor at 

 some seasons when bruised." Common through Oregon and British Columbia, and up the 

 coast to Kodiak Island, where it has been collected by Dr. Kcttogg. The leaves differ much 

 in outline, even the earlier and later of the same bush ; at first usually more or less ferruginous- 

 pubescent, but often satiny white-tomentose beneath, and then easily mistaken for S. Sitchcnsis. 

 We follow Andersson in rejecting the older name of the Flora Boreali-Americana, on the ground 

 that AS'. Scouleriana, Barratt, was founded on the leaves of S. Si/chensisaml aments of S. fluvesccns. 

 Even the " small staminate aments 2 or 3 lines thick," referred to var. tenuijulis, by Andersson 

 (DC. Prodr. xvi' 2 . 225), from Fort Vancouver (Tolwic, in Dr. Gray's herbarium), belong to 

 S. fiitchensis, showing not only how easy it is to mix herbarium specimens of these two species, 

 but how far the confusion may be overlooked even by the most critical observers. After Barratt's 

 name there can be no question that the next in point of date is Nuttall's, which is here restored. 

 Recent collections have confirmed the accuracy of his description in some particulars wherein 

 it has heretofore been regarded as ambiguous, excepting however "stigmas pubescent," which 

 still remains unaccountable. 



1 0. S. G-eyeriana, Anders. Leaves lanceolate, acute at both ends, 2 or 3 inches 

 long by 4 to 6 lines wide, downy above, grayish beneath with soft silky hairs, 

 entire ; stipules none : araents at first small, subglobose, nearly equalled by the 3 or 

 4 silky bracts at their base, becoming short-peduncled in fruit : scales tawny, 

 obtuse, sparsely villous : capsule tapering from an ovate base, silky tomentose : 

 pedicel slender, puberulent, 4 or 5 times the length of the nectary : stigmas sessile, 

 bifid. Sal. Monogr. 86, fig. 50, and DC. Prodr. xvi 2 . 226. 



Sierra County (Lemmon) ; Plumas Gouty (iff* Ames) ; Oregon and the Rocky Mountains, 

 Gcyrr. A bush growing on the " borders of streams and rivulets, most abundant about springs, 

 10 to 15 feet high " ; the branchlets usually covered with a glaucous bloom. Mature fertile 

 aments rather more than half an inch long. A beautiful and distinct species, which has been com- 

 pared with S. rostrata ; the resemblance is, however, not obvious. It is more nearly allied to 

 <S'. peiiolaris or 8. repens. The leaves bear a cherry-like gall, similar to one that is frequently 

 found on S. petiolaris. 



*- *- Styles evident. 



H- Usually large shrubs (6 to 15 feet high), but smaller in sulalpine regions ; 



branches long and slender. 



11. S. Sitchensis, Sanson. A straggling arcuate shrub, 6 to 15 feet high, over- 

 hanging streams : branches slender, brownish, downy at first, soon smooth, some- 

 times covered with a glaucous bloom : leaves oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, acute 

 or the earliest obtuse with an abrupt point, narrowed at base into a short petiole, 

 dark green above except the whitish-pubescent midrib, covered beneath with a lus- 

 trous white and satiny tomentum ; margin entire or obsoletely crenulate ; stipules 

 reniform, usually wanting : aments with a few small bracts at base, erect, slender, 

 densely flowered : scale yellowish or tawny, sparsely villous : capsule ovate-conical, 

 acute, tomentose : pedicel 2 or 3 times the length of the nectary : style elongated : 

 stigmas scarcely emarginate, thick, erect. Bongard, Veg. Sitch. 162 ; Anders. Sal. 

 Monogr. 1 06, fig. 59, and DC. Prodr. xvi 2 . 233. S. cuneata, Nutt. Sylva, i. 66. 



Var. angustifolia, Bebb. Leaves narrowly oblauceolate, acute or acuminate, an 

 inch or two long, 3 or 4 lines wide, the margins entire and revolute ; stipules none : 

 mature fertile ament an inch long. S. chlorophylla, var. pellita, Anders, in DC. 

 Prodr. xvi 2 . 244. 



