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from north of the Lake of the Woods (R. Bell) to Great Bear Lake. 

 (Richardson.) " Common on the Portage of the Grand Kapid of the 

 Saskatchewan, near Lake Winnipeg." {Douglas.') Pic Kiver, Lake 

 Superior; and in swampy spots from Edmonton to the Athabasca 

 Biver, at Fort Assiniboine. {Macoun.) Clearwater Biver, Lat. 57, 

 N.W.T., 1888. (J. M. Macoun.) Along streams in the foot-hills of the 

 Bocky Mountains. (Drummond.) 



(2034.) S. arctica, Pallas, Fl. Boss 2 2 , 86; Bebb, Bot. Gaz., 

 XIV., 115. 



S. PaUasii, Anders., DC. Prod. 16 ', 285. 



S. crassijulis, Trev., ex Traut. Sal. frigid, 308. 



S diplodiclya, Traut., Sal. frigid, 307. 



This species includes No. 2034 and its varieties, Part III., 452. 

 Alaska and adjacent islands on the tops of h igh hills ; Nulaska. 

 (Kellogg, Harrington, Escholtz) Shumagin Islands. (Harrington.) 

 Nushagak. (McKay.) Semidi Islands. (Dall) Doubtless this species 

 will be found on Queen Charlotte Islands. 



(2036.) S. phlebophylla, Anders. ; Macoun, Cat. III., 452. 



"A species of high Arctic distribution in western rather than in 

 eastern British America. The station, 'Eastern summit of North 

 Kootanie Pass, Bocky Mountains/ should be omitted ; even Bothrock's 

 localities, south of Behring's Strait, are very doubtful. Much confusion 

 has arisen from Anderson's having at first distributed one of Dr. Lyall's 

 Cascade Mountain Willows as S. phlebophylla, the same plant that 

 afterwards served as the type of his S. tenera, N. Sp., in reality only a 

 form (by no means rare) of S. jBrownii." (Bebb.) 



(2043.) S. Richardsoni, Hooker.; Macoun, Cat. III., 454. 



Bepulse Bay. (Parry) Crevices in rocks, Nachvak, coast of 

 Labrador. (R. Bell.) 



Var. Macouniana, Bebb, Bot. Gaz., XIV., 50, PI. 9. 



Leaves orbicular, the earliest obovate, quite entire, less than one 

 inch long and broad, covered when young with floccose hairs, especially 

 on the upper surface, soon smooth, dark green and somewhat shining 

 above, paler and reticulate-veined beneath ; aments small for the group, 

 whitish-silky with just a shade of fulvous in the male, scales obtuse, 

 stigmas entire, otherwise as in the type. (Bebb) A small compact 

 bush, 2 to 4 feet high, with just the habit of a garden currant, growing 



