° botanical gazette. r March f 



2. S. Richardsoxii Hook. Aments closely sessile, thick 

 very densely flowered; the male ovate-oblonir. „ S i,;,i| v w 



fX J -"^wu^iy ocasuc, HULK, 



y flowered; the male ovate-oblong, usually two 

 on each twig the terminal one larger (f in. thick, U in. 

 long), scales dark, rather acute, densely clothed with very 

 long straight ashy-white or pale fulvous silky hairs ; female 

 ament terminal, ob ong-cylindrical, 2-3 in. long, densely 

 silky with cinereous hairs above and fulvous toward the base • 



style conspicuously elongated ; stigmas linear, entire or 2- 

 parted. 



v /£fi Fort Franklin on the Mackenzie River, Richardson 

 v. s. m herb. Torrey. Repulse Bay, Aug. 22, 1821 (Parry?) 



The figure ot this plant given in the Flora Boreali-Amer- 

 cana shows a solitary fruiting ament with nearly full-grown 



H^B & n T'fwn W1 i 1™? is drawn from " No- 22 Herb 



ML, ii. ft r., 2 but Dr. Richardson collected other specimens 

 both male and female, of the same species, earlier in the 

 season, without leaves, and among these in the Torrey her! 

 barium I am astonished to find the staminate aments which 

 have a 1 along been wanting to complete our knowledge of 

 jS \Rtchardsonu The accompanying ticket reads, » 7 g f e et 

 high, erect and spreading ; Fort Franklin, Dr. Richardson" 

 The impression has prevailed that the plant was of more 

 humble stature. Andersson says "frutl far^'-wll 



bv V HnT e "T^*?' since ^ mention is rn^de of the height 

 by Hooker. Indeed, as these earlier specimens are notnum 

 bered I imagine none like them were sent abroad and I hence 

 the incompleteness of the original figure and descriptionTnd 

 also the omission of Dr. Richardson^ field not as tos?atn "e 

 Var Macouniana. Leaves orbicular, the earliest obov e' 

 quite entire, less than one inch long and broad, covered wen 

 young with floccose hairs, especfally on the upper surf ce 

 soon smooth, dark green and somewhat shinfnHbov? naW 

 and reticulate-ve nf-rl K^n^.fK . ._ '".-, <ioove, paler 



whitish-silky with just a shade of fulvous in the ma e 2 

 obtuse, stigmas entir e, otherwise as in the type. 



2 Hooker, Barratt and Torrey I takp it ThTT^TI 7, — ~~ - 



las, Drummond and others were pL^S in Dr SlJa ?h„ C ° T'f *' Richardson - *>oug- 

 He seems to have distributed the s^im e „finto thre" t „ ^ ^^ a " d arran « ed - 

 The most complete set doubtless wTn H Z The one". ? he T^ ^ ^^ 

 some respects quite satisfHPtorv th P „ « M i , Atieonein the Torrey herbarium is in 



a f„U seWor hi'nseif, ^W^^^^T^^u " ^ Bwnitt ™ M 

 the possession of Middleto»n Co ege so I am "f , k T * herbari " m «=ame into 



my friend Dr. Brl.ton for an opporU ,,V v to reJ™ ,/ ?* ^ * " todrt **» * 



fortunately fell to the safe keeX ZZT"*" "» 1Iltere ««n g old types which 



