I 16 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ May, 



Pall. ; the two species (aside from the shifting of names) 



relation nreciselv as heretofore. Had 



same 



Pa Hi 



R 



ency could be urged in behalf of an author who throughout 

 pays little or no regard to claims of priority. It might be 

 argued that S. arctica R. Br. was so deeply embedded in 

 the science that it could not and ought not to be torn out by 

 the roots, and that it were better, since one of the two names 

 must be suppressed, that the more obscure — even it con- 

 fessedly the older one — be sacrificed. Any such apology, 

 however, is felt to be out of place when we have a new name 

 given to the old S. arciica Pall., the authority of Pallas trans 

 ferred to a species of which he was entirely ignorant, and 

 Robert Brown left out entirely. 1 



But we are not obliged to rest our judgment solely upon 

 the characters given, though in the present instance this evi- 

 dence is in itself conclusive. Not only does the name, S. 

 Pallasiiy imply the earlier description by Pallas, but we have 

 Anderssori s own admission that he had seen the specimens ot 

 Sujef (type of S. arciica Pall !) " in the herbarium of Pallas, 

 inscribed S. arciica ," and that these did not differ from his 

 S. Pallasii, var. diplodiciya! 



The venerable Dr. Trautvetter, whose special study ot 

 arctic willows and whose familiarity with the work done on 

 Salix by Russian botanists, must combine to give his opinion 

 a weight bevond that of Andersson's, writes in a letter: "#!>. 



di-plodicty 



(S 



Br.), only in the leaves gieen and shining beneath, and it 

 may be questioned if the species is well founded." Here. 

 in a brief sentence, we have the pith and substance ot the 



1 S. arctica Pall. S. Pallasii et a. cramjitlis And. 



t4 Folia pro planta rnajuscula •' Folia supra medium 



pollice latiora, pollice latioribus, 



obovata, obovatis, 



apice latiora rotundata, apice rotundatis, 



integerrima, integerrima, 



crassius reticulata, distincte reticulato-nervosis, 



subtus tenuissime villosa, subtus sericeis, 



amenta foeminea magna bipollicaria, digiti amentis femineis fere bipollicaria, crassn ; - 



minimi crass! tie culis, 



e lateribus ramorum, lateralibus 



longius pedunculata duobus, pedunculo iperne sat 



tribusve foliis majusculis longe nudo inferne 



tipata, foliis 2-3 instructo, 



eapsulne coni< capgulls conicis. 



tomentosa-eana\ ,f Flora Rossica. longe cinereo viHosis." DC. Prod. 



"Cfcpsuto confer tee/' Pall., and "amentis densifloris," And.— meaning the sattl 

 could not be conveniently arranged opposite each other in the schedule. . . 



Pallas died 1811, twelve years before S. arctica R. Br. (based upon specimens brougnt 

 home by British explorers) was published. 



