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name to S. anglorum after having given a good account of S. 
arctica Pall., non Br., he said nothing but the following: 
Salix anglorum N.—S. arctica R. Brown ex Ed. Nees 1. p. 406, supl. to the 
append. of Cap. Parry’s Voy. p. 282. E. Meyer Lab. p. 32 (non Pallas).— 
Insula et sinus Sti. Laurentii—Ex insula Chamissonis, capsulis maturis 
vetustate calvescentibus. 
These specimens, however, do not belong to S. anglorum, but what 
in 1839 Hooker (FI. Bor.-Am. 2:153). referred to S. retusa. 
Hooker, therefore, quotes S. anglorum in his synonymy of this 
species, for which ANDERSSON (1858) proposed the name S. 
(retusa*) phlebophylla, and made it a species (S. phlebophylla) in 
the Prodromus (1868). Here he also quotes S. anglorum in the 
' synonymy, having in 1858 ignored entirely CHAMIsso’s name, which 
has been used by some later authors for phlebophylla instead of 
anglorum. RYDBERG (1899) was the first to state that CHAMIsso’s 
name ‘“‘must be regarded as equivalent”’ to S. arctica Br. 
What, however, is the typical S. arctica Brown? It was first 
collected by Ross during his exploration of the “Baffin Bay, Lat. 
7° 30’ to 76° 12’ on the east side, or at Possession Bay, Lat. 
73, on the west side.’”” RICHARDSON probably based his descrip- 
tion chiefly on his own plants collected on “barren grounds from 
Point Lake to Arctic Sea” (or, as the explanation in ed. 2 runs, on 
“barren grounds from Lat. 64° to the Arctic Sea, in Lat. 60°”); 
while Brown, besides the plants of Ross, mentioned those of 
Parry’s Expedition from Melville Island, Winter Harbor. I have 
not yet seen a type specimen, but RicHARDSON’s and BRown’s 
descriptions are sufficient to furnish us with the following char- 
acters: 
Frutex depressus. Rami, beaker 3 floriferi omnes et steri- 
lium nonnulli adscendentes, adulti glabri. Folia elliptico-obovata 
vel obovata, integerrima, novella pilis sericeis vestita, adulta 
utrinque glabra, venis subtus parum eminentibus, venulis ana- 
stomosantibus. Amenta utriusque sexus.ramos brevissimos foliatos 
terminantia. Squamae orbiculato-obovatae, saepe retusae, fusco- 
nigricantes pilis sericeis vestitae. Mascula 8-10 lin. longa, densa. 
Stamina 2, filamentis distinctis, antheris purpureis. Glandulae 
