1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 133 
a SALICACEAE.® 
: 36. SALIX ALAXENsIS Coville, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 2: 280 
1900; idem 3:311. pl. 34. 1901.—S. speciosa Hook. & Arn 
Bot. Beech. 130. 1832; S. speciosa alaxensis Anders. DC. Prod. 
16°: 275. 1868.—Stems rather stout, densely white-tomentose 
or flavescent: leaves obovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, densely tomentose on the lower surface, glabrous or 
with some woolly hairs on the upper; the largest leaves 5.5™ 
long, 2-5™ wide; petioles 5™" long, shorter than the linear- 
lanceolate stipules; these 5—10o™™ long, white-woolly: female 
catkins 6m long, the bracts black, clothed with long white 
woolly hairs: style long; stigma with linear two-parted lobes: 
capsules Ovate-acuminate, sessile, clothed with silky hairs. 
____.__ Type locality: “ Alaxa Americae occidentali-borealis.”” On the banks of 
: Nome river, 
____ 37. Satix Cuamissonis Anders. DC. Prod. 167: 290. 1868.— — 
a ems shining, chestnut-brown: leaves (in. bud) glandular- 
gine Steen on the upper surface, glaucescent and somewhat _ ee 
lanate on the lower; petioles short, about as long as the gland- 
toothed Stipules: catkins wit | : 
—5™ long; 
—. “apsules clothed with sparse short white pubescence, 
_ng at apex to the long black style; divisions of the stigma 
in sinu S. Laurentii.” 
SALIX GLauca L. Sp. Pl. ro1g. 1753.—Old stems chestnut- 
mg, 12™ broad: catkins small, subtenc 
ong; Scales arranged in whorls 1™ apa 
MOTE. V. Coville, B ie 
