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silky-toinentose, on pedicels Imnlly as long as the scales : styles obsolete ; stigmas 

 long, entire or deeply jjarted, the linear lobes inllexed. — Sylva, i. 05. S. bmchy- 

 s(,fchi/s, JJenth. VI. Hartw. 330; Anders. Sal. Monogr. 82, lig. 48, and DC. Prodr. 

 xvil 224. S. sta</na/is, Nutt. Sylva, i. 00 1 ^. Scoiifenana, IJarratt ; Hook. Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. ii. 145, in part. aS'. cn^Ji-eoides, Anders. Sal. I'or.-Ani. II. 



Santa Harbara (Mrs. Elwond Cooper) ; wootls near iMonterey {Ilarlivccj); also collected by Coid- 

 trr, but the locaUty uuceitaiii ; Santa Cruz Mountains, Dr. C. L. Anderson, who says that this 

 wiUow i3 "gi'ncrally found on mountain-sides near sprinj^y [daces and as a kind of undergrowtli 

 for trees: ohl trees, HI to 20 feet hif;li, have a round bushy top, very strag^jlinj,' and \vith"a pro- 

 fusion of brauclilets ; bark tissure<l, bro\vnish-<,'ray ; twigs with a very strong niephitie odor at 

 sonic seasons wlieu bruised." Couiiuon through Oregon and Britisli Coiunibia, and uti the 

 coast to Ivodiak Island, where it has been collected by Dr. Kdh»rt. Tlie leaves did'er 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 bcueath, and tlicn easily mistaken for .S'. S'ilc/icnsis. 

 We follow Audersson in rejecting the older name of the Flora Horeali-Americana, on the ground 

 that 6'. SconlcriaiKi, Barratt, was founded on the leaves of ^'. ,SV/c/iC)(Ais and aments of S. Jfavescens. 

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

 (DC. I'rodr. xvi'^. 225), from Fort Vancouver {Tulmir, in Dr. Gray's herbarium), belong to 

 .S'. Sitc/iensis, 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 (!ritical 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 accinacy of his description in some particulars wherein 

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

 still remains nnac(!ountable. 



10. S. Geyeriana, Anders. Leaves lanceolate, acute at both ends, 2 or 3 inches 

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

 entire ; stipules none : aments at lirst small, subglobose, nearly e(pialled by the 3 or 

 4 silky bracts at their base, becoming sliort-pedunclcd 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, 

 bilid. — Sal. Monogr. 80, lig. 50, ami DC. I'rodr. xvi^ 220. 



Sierra County (Lemmon) ; IMumas County (3frs. Ames) ; Oregon and the Hockv Mountains, 

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

 10 to 15 feet high"; the branchlets usually coyered with a glaucous blooni. l^Iature fertile 

 aments rather more than half an inch long. A beautiful and distinc-t s).ecies, which lias been coin- 

 l>ared with .S'. rostrcUa ; the resemblance is, however, not obvious. It is more nearly allied to 

 S. pefiolaris or .S'. rejicns. The leaves bear a cherry dike gall, similar to one that is fre(iuently 

 found on S. jKliolaris. 



-t- •»- Stifles evident. 



++ UsuaUij lartje shrubs (0 to 15 feet hir/h), hut smaller in subulpine refjions ; 

 branches lonij and slender. 



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

 hanging streams : branches slender, brownish, downy at Hrst, 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 excejjt the whitish-pubescejit 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 llowered : 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. — I>ongard, Veg. Sitch. 102; Anders. Sal. 

 ]\[onogr. 100, lig. 59, and DC. Pr.xlr. xvi-. 233. .S'. cunenta, Nutt. Sylva, i. GO. 



Var. angUStifolia, IJebb. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 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. chlorojiht/llo, vin: ])ellii<(, Audeis. in DC. 

 Prodr. xvi^. 244. 



