SALICACEAE. — SALIX 157 



glaucous beneath and sometimes denticulate, and silky ovaries. It needs further 

 investigation to fix its taxonomic position. 



141. Salix vulpinoides Koidzumi in Tohyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 94 (1913). 

 JAPAN. Hondo. (The author does not cite a type specimen.) 



I have seen no specimen and place this species in the sect. Chrysantheae on the 

 authority of the author. 



Sect. 30. VIMINALES Bluff & Fingerhuth, Comp. Fl. Germ. II. 562 (182,5). — 

 W. D. Koch, De Salic. Comm. 27 (1828). — Borrer in Hooker, Brit. Fl. 423 

 (1830). — Seemen, Salic. Jap. 19 (1903); in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Milteleur. 

 Fl. IV. 60 (pro parte) (1908). 



Salix, sect. Micantes (seu Viminales) Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. 

 pt. 2, 264 (pro parte) (1868). 



Arbores v. frutices alti, ramis vimineis flexilibus. Folia pleraque anguste v. 

 latius elongato-lanceolata. Amenta pleraque praecocia, sessilia v. brevipedimcu- 

 lata, elongato-cylindrica, densiflora; fiores cf diandri, filamentis liberis, antheris 

 aureis, glandula una; fiores 9 glandula una, ovariis sessilibus v. pedicellatis satis 

 dense pilosis, styHs elongatis, stigmatibus integris bifidisve. 



The section is closely connected by hybrids with the sections Capreae, Daphnoi- 

 deae, Helix and probably also with Sieboldianae and Gracilistylae. 



142. Salix viminalis Linnaeus, Spec. 1021 (1753). — Pokorny, Oesterr. Holzpfl. 

 85, t. 18, fig. 224-226 (1864). — Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 264 

 (1868). — Brandis, Forest Fl. Brit. Ind. 470 (1874); Ind. Trees, 638 (1906).— 

 Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 631 (1888). — Herder in Act. Hart. Petrop. XI. 425 

 (1891). — Burkill in Jour. Linn. Sac. XXVI. 534 (1899). — Hempel & Wilhelm, 

 Bdume & Straucher, II. 112, fig. 197 and t.31 (1896). — Wolf in Izv. S.-Peterbiirg. 

 Liesn. Inst. IV. 70, t. 19, fig. 1-8 {Mam. Esyu. Mm Eepon. Pace.) (1900); 1. c. XHI. 

 45, 54, t. 1-2 (Asiam. lieu, I.) (1905).— Seemen, Salic. Jap. 50, t. 9 f-k (1903); 

 in Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. IV. 173 (1909). — Komarov in Act. 

 Hort. Petrop. XXII. 32 (Fl. Mansh. II.) (pro parte) (1903). — Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. 1. 45, fig. 12 o, 20 i-k (1904). — Nakai in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXI. 

 214 (Fl. Kor. II.) (1911). — Moss, Cambridge Brit. Fl. II. 60, t. 59-61 (1914). 



For additional sjTionyms and references see Herder, Wolf and von Seemen, 1. c. 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Transbaikalia: banks of streams near Srye- 

 chinsk, August 13, 1903, C. S. Sargent (tree 7 m. tall, girth 2.4 m.; sterile). Amur 

 and Ussuri: Amur River, Kwashima, May 8, 1891, S. Korshinsky (9); Khaba- 

 rovska. May 18, 1891, S. Korshinsky (with fruits); Bidshana, July 11, 1891, S. 

 Korshinsky (sterile); Tschernajaewa, August 13, 1891, S. Korshinsky (sterile); 

 station grounds, Nikolks, August 12, 1903, C. S. Sargent (sterile) ; without precise 

 locality, C. Maximowicz (9 and d'); without precise locality, 1855, R. Maack (with 

 fruits). Saghalien : Toyo-hara, side of streams, abundant, August 3, 1914, E. H. 

 PTzfeon (No. 7341; bush 1.8^.5 m. tall; sterile); " secus aquas communis," end of 

 June, U. Faurie (No. 273; with fruits); without locaHty, Fr. Schmidt (9). 



INDIA. Punjab : distr. Simla, Bashahr state, bank of the Baspa River near 

 Sangla, May 1908 (with fruits). Kashmir: " reg. temp. 9-11000 ped.," T. Thom- 

 son (sterile). 



This is the typical European form varying in the shape of the leaves, which always 

 are covered below with a dense silky pubescence, the hairs lying parallel to the 

 lateral nerves. The ovaries are sessile; the stigmas are long and narrow, and a 

 little shorter or as long as the long styles. For further specimens see Herder, 1. c, 



