1902] PLANTS COLLECTED AT NOME CITY, ALASKA 135 
42. SALIX sp.—Stems glabrous or slightly pubescent: leaves 
elliptical, acute or obtuse at apex, bright green on the upper 
side, glaucous on the lower, with margin entire or sparingly 
glandular-toothed ; largest leaf 6.5°™ long, 3°" broad; petioles 
I-3™ long; stipules only on the younger leaves, ovate, glandu- 
lar-toothed, about as long as the petioles: catkins 2™ long, 
loosely flowered, on short leafy peduncles; bracts oblong, brown 
with silky wool at apex: capsules on short pedicels, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 4™™ long; styles short; stigmas capitate 
at first, later two-lobed. 
This is an undetermined species which Mr. Colville writes has been col- 
lected also at other places. 
BETULACEAE. 
_ 43. Berura nana L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1394. 1763; Fl. Lapp. 274. 
pl. 6. fig. 4—Low shrub with brown bark, white dotted: leaves 
small, orbicular, 5—1o™™ wide, irregularly dentate, with petioles 
2m long. 
Type range: “in Alpibus Lapponicis, paludibus Sueciae, Russiae.”’ 
ae peas Specimen is without flowers or fruit. The catkins are described as 
| tomas Dicyna Hill Hort. Kew. 158. 1765 (ex Index . 
oa 
. long a 
pedicels, in a dense racemose 
Stamens with white filaments and 
