1921] BALL—WILLOWS 435 
Lake, F. A. Walpole 305, August 1, 1899 (N); Portland, L. F. Henderson, 1886 
(FBb 6234). 
WaAsHINGTON.—Whitman County, Pullman, A. D. E. Elmer 111, May 
1897 (B); C. V. Piper 3598, May 13, 1898 (B); Walla Walla County, Waits- 
burg, R. M. Horner 446, April 22 (N), 447, April 9, 1897 (N); (west) Klickitat 
County, Columbia River, W. N. Suksdorf 40, April 25, 1884 (B); no locality, 
Probably Klickitat County, E. P. Sheldon 8124, 1897 (N); Kittitas County, 
Wenatchee Mountains, Coville 1177, September 4, 1901 (N); Okanogan 
County, along Ashnola River, Sheep Mountain—Bald Mountain Trail, 
Okanogan Forest, alt. 1630 m., W. W. Eggleston 13395, August 2, 1916 (N). 
ALBERTA.—Rocky Mountain Park, vicinity of Banff, NV. B. Sanson 119, 
June 9 and 20, IQII; 257, 260, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267, 299, 302, 311, between 
July 4 and July 1 5, IQII; 341, 380, 387, 2038, between August 2 and August 
14, 1911; 511, June 29, 1912, =July 1, 1912 (B, RMP). 
SALIX FARRAE Walpoleii Coville and Ball, n. var.—Low shrub, 
©.5-2.5m. high; bark probably dark gray; branchlets substoutish, 
the older dark gray to brown, those of the season, or of two years’ 
growth, mostly short, divaricate, dark brown to black, the youngest 
pubescent with gray hairs, becoming glabrate or glabrous, all 
rather closely beset with bud scars; buds (seen only on flowering 
and fruiting specimens) minute or small, 1-3 mm. long, lanceolate- 
conic, black, thinly pubescent or glabrous: leaves mid-sized, 
petiolate, minutely stipulate; stipules minute to small, lanceolate or 
semicordate to ovate, acute, entire or denticulate, 1-5 mm. long; 
petioles slender, 2-10 mm. long, yellowish to dark brown, pubescent, 
becoming glabrous; blades elliptic-lanceolate to obovate, acute or 
abruptly short-acuminate, 4-8 cm. long, 2-3.3 cm. wide, common 
Sizes being 5 by 2-2.5, 6 by 2-2.5, 7 by 2.4-3, and 8 by 3.3cm., 
narrowed to somewhat rounded at base, entire or shallowly and 
tather remotely crenulate, thin, glabrous, green above, glaucous 
beneath, coarsely reticulate with slender veins on both surfaces: 
aments slender, rather lax, appearing with the leaves, on leafy 
peduncles; pistillate peduncle 1-2 cm. long, bearing 2-4 leaves 
2~4cm. long; the staminate 5-10 mm. long, bearing 2-3 leaves 
I.5-2.5 cm. long: pistillate aments 2-5 or 6 cm. long, 12-15 mm. 
wide, lax in fruit, rachis scantily tomentose; capsule narrowly 
lanceolate-rostrate, or conic-rostrate, 5~7 mm. long, mostly obtuse, 
brown, glabrous; pedicel slender to stoutish, 1-1.5 mm. long, 
glabrous; style very short, o.2-0.3mm. long, stigmas short, 
