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catkins are sessile with 1-3 bracts which are smooth above, ciliated at the 
margin, and downy beneath. Catkins about half an inch long and twice 
as long as broad, oval, blunt, less cylindrical than those of S. rubra, 
Huds., opening first at one side. The immature anthers both in S. rubra 
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appearance; but "edil ards t ey are often separated, about half-way, as in 
S. rubra. The 
ments are smooth. ectary a single blunt rather 
short gland ; sabes blank. blunt, but often tinged with pink at the base. 
The scale in S. rubra is very similar, but the filaments are always more 
decidedly cloven, and the nectary is longer ; ; catkins and leaves alternate. 
Whatever this willow may be considered eventually, it has little resem- 
blance to the Cinerez with their downy shoots and buds and reflexed leaves 
when young. The leaves in S. Pontederana are elliptical, pointed, green, 
shining and smooth above, glaucous beneath, with wavy somewhat re- 
stipules are generally wanting, but when present are narrow lanceolate. 
When I first met with this wile at Rothbury, in Northumberland, 
by the side of the Coquet, where I have again seen EU this year (1872), 
took it for S. rubra, Huds., and was very much surprised when I saw 
as leaves. The male of S. Pontederana, Schl., is unknown to me, nor 
to n 
Trautvetter in Fl. Alt. vol. iv. p. 264, gives S. Croweana as a synonyme of 
- Pontederana, Schl.’ W., but he does not seem to have met with the 
male. In many respects the description in Flora Altaica agrees with m 
plant. I have specimens from Prof. Koch of 8. Pontederana female, and 
€ of S. discolor, Host. The latter has broader leaves and less coarsely 
rrated than my plant; the former agrees very well with what I have 
published as S. Pontederana female. Not having seen specimens of Dr. 
Wimmer's S. Pontederana I do not venture any MIA as ihe that distin- 
guished botanist's views regarding this species.—J. E. LEEFE. 
Extracts and Abstracts. 
THE PHANEROGAMIC FLORA RA OF NOVA ZEMBLA ISLANDS. 
By E. R. v. TRAUTVETTER. 
[The following list is taken from the author's ‘Conspectus Flore 
Insularum Nowaja Semlja, published in the first volume of the 
dui orskago 
. being omitted. It may be compared with interest with the list of Spitz- 
-bergen plants, by Malmgren, printed in the second volume of this Journ 
