SALICACEAE. — SALIX 111 



from S. hondoensis Koidziimi in the larger 9 catkins, the shorter style and the 

 shorter, truncate bracts, but, as 1 have said before, it is very doubtful whether 

 these three species are specifically distinct or mere varieties of one species. 



This Willow is common round Sapporo and in the park there are some notable 

 trees. It is a tree from 20-25 m. tall with a trunk from 4 to 5 m. in girth, gray 

 ehallowly fissured bark, large ascending-spreading and spreading branches and 

 gray-green leaves. The habit is singularly like that of the English Oak. 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. x452 and x453 of the collection of 

 my Japanese photographs. E. H. W. 



32. Salix lasiogyne Seemen, Salic. Jap. 32, t. 4, fig. A-c (1903). 

 NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea: Soeul, May 22, 1901, U. Faurie (No. 



632, co-type ex Seemen). 



JAPAN. Hondo: Yamakita, May 2, 1899, U. Faurie (No. 3702, type, 9, ex 

 Seemen); prov. Suruga, Numadzu, April 1895 (No. 63, ex Herb. Bot. Gard. 

 Tokyo). 



This species, of which I have not seen the type, is distinguished by its acute 

 bracts, its nearly sessile stigmas and by the glabrous upper part of the ovaries. A 

 specimen, collected by U. Faurie, in Hokkaido, Otara, culta, June 12, 1908 (No. 

 259), agrees well with von Seemen's description and figures, but the ovaries are 

 wholly glabrous. As von Seemen points out, the species looks very much like 

 S. habylonica Linnaeus. I am inclined to beUeve that it may have* a parentage 

 similar to that of S. elegantissima, Koch, p. 109. The specimen from Korea may 

 belong to S. koreensis Andersson. 



33. Salix koreensis Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 271 (1868). — 

 Nakai in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXI. 215 {Ft. Kor. II.) (1911). — Koidzumi in 

 Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 89 (1913). 



Salix pogonandra Leveille in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. X. 436 (1912). 

 Salix pseudo-Gilgiana Leveille, 1. c. (1912). 

 Salix pseudo-lasiogyne Leveille, 1. c. (1912). 

 Salix pseudo-jessoensis Leveille, 1. c. (1912). 

 Salix Feddei Leveill6, 1. c. (1912). 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea : " in ora boreali," A.Schlippenbach (type, 

 ex Andersson); Quelpaert; " Piento Tchimpat," 400 m., April 14, 1908, U. 

 Faurie (No. 4706, type of S. pogonandra) ; " in pago Polmongi," April 8, 190S, U. 

 Faurie (No. 4707); same locality, end of April 1908, U. Faurie (No. 1447, type of 

 S. pseudo-jessoensis) ; " in pago Hiotan(?)," April 14, 1908, U. Faurie (No. 4708); 

 without locality, April 1909, U. Faurie (No. 3240, type of S. pseudo^ilgiana) ; " in 

 humidis vulcani," April 1909, U. Faurie (No. 3241), " in sepibus Setchimin," 

 May 1909, U. Faurie (No. 3242, type of S. Feddei); in Chemulpo, May 1909, U. 

 Faurie (No. 3243, type of S. pseudo-lasiogyne; No. 3244); " in jugo Pomasa," May 

 21,1906, U. Faurie (No. 175); Fusan, "secusrivulos," May 1906, U . Faurie (Nos. 

 176, 181). 



I have not seen Andersson's type, but all of Faurie's specimens agree well with 

 Andersson's and Koidzumi's descriptions. There are really no dilTerences at all 

 between these forms described by LeveilI6 as different species. The pubescence 

 of the ovaries is variable, as is the shape of the gland and the stigmas and the 

 length of the style and of the 9 catkins. At the time of flowering the 9 catkins 

 are short (1 cm.) and oval; the fruiting aments are up to 2.5 cm. long and 0.9 

 cm. broad. The catkins are not really sessile, although they are precocious, often 

 losing early the small leaves of the short peduncle. The cf catkins are from 



