SALICACEAE. — SALIX 127 



Herder, 1. c. 417, cites a Salix submyrtilloides Andersson, which seems to be a 

 herbarium name, and according to Trautvetter is the same as S. chlorostachya 

 Turczaninow. 



87. Salix leptoclados Andersson in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. VI. 144, t. 7, 

 fig. 79 {Monog. Salic.) (1867); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 247 (1868). — 

 Herder in Act. Hart. Petrop. XI. 417 (1891). 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Transbaikalia: on the river Selenga near 

 Verchne Udinsk, 1832, A^. Turczaninow (ex Andersson). 



This is a doubtful species. The hairy ovary has a pedicel which is 3 or 4 times 

 longer than the gland. The style is usually bifid. 



88. Salix Reinii Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 459 (nomen nudum) 

 (1875); apud Seemen, Salic. Jap. 41. t. 6, fig. A-E (1903). — L^veille in Bull. Acad. 

 Int. Geogr. Bot. XIV. 208 (1904); XVI. 143 (1906). — Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XXVII. 91 (1913). 



Salix glabra Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. II. 503 (1879). — Kawakami 

 in Tokyo Bot. Mag. X. 50 (1896). 



JAPAN. Hondo : prov. Suruga, slopes of Fuji-san, common, woodlands, above 

 alt. 800 m., May 8, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6642; bush 0.3-1.5 m. tall; d'; No. 

 6642*; 9); same locality, August 1906, M. Koyama (with fruits); same locality 

 (ex Herb. Bot. Gard. Tokyo; d'); same locality, July 29, 1891, K. Watanabe (d); 

 prov. Shimotsuke, Yumoto, open country, alt. 2000-2800 m., June 23, 1914, E. H. 

 Wilson (No. 6844; bush 0.6-1.5 m. tall; d; No. 6844^ $ ); prov. Mutsu, Hakkoda- 

 yama, abundant on upper slopes and summit, July 4-6, 1914, E. H. Wilson 

 (No. 7080; bush 0.3-0.9 m. tall; d); Iwaki san. May and August 1908 (ex Herb. 

 Yokohama Nursery Co., 9 flowers and fruits) ; leaves large, ovate-elliptical, up to 

 11 cm. long and 3.8 cm. broad); Mt. Iwate, July 1903, S. Arimoto (with fruits); 

 on Gassan, July 23, 1887 (No. 66 ex Herb. Bot. Gard. Tokyo; with fruits) ; prov. ? 

 "in monte Hak'san, in fruticetis humidis," J. Rein (Savatier, Nos. 2923, 2924; 

 types, ex Franchet & Savatier). 



The fruits of typical S. Reinii are mostly somewhat hairy, at least on the pedicels, 

 but are sometimes wholly glabrous. The d catkins are often rather small; the 

 bracts are oblong, hairy or nearly glabrous. The glands of both the sexes are 

 rather long compared with those of S. vulpina Andersson or forms of S. japonica 

 Thunberg. The pedicel of the ovary is about as long as the gland or up to twice 

 its length in the fruit. The pubescence of the bracts may sometimes contain some 

 brownish hairs like those of S. vulpina Andersson, which differs in its short more 

 orbicular-ovate bracts, shorter styles and short glands. There are certainly hy- 

 brids between it and S. vidpina Andersson and also between it and S. japonica, var. 

 padifolia Seemen (and var. Oldhamiana Franchet & Savatier?). I suppose that S. 

 Reinii would be better referred to sect. Hastatae. 



It seems to be a variable species the forms of which need a careful study. Von 

 Seemen {Salic. Jap. 42 [1903]) described 4 different forms, the types of which I have 

 not seen, namely: 



f. typica Seemen: folia obovata, apice brevi-acuta, saepe plicata, subtus cinereo- 

 glauca (type collected by J. Rein). 



f. nikkoensis Seemen: reptans; folia magna, ad 6.5 cm. longa, 3.5 cm. lata, 

 oblonga: Nikko, on moist ground, M. Shirai (No. 20; ex von Seemen). 



f. riishiriensis Seemen: folia oblonga usque lanceolata, ad 4.5 cm. longa, 2 cm. 

 lata, in apicem acutam attenuata, subtus paullo pallidiora, nervatura utrinque 

 distinctius prominula: Riishiri, (7. Fawrie (No. 3711; ex Seemen). 



