228 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [OCTOBER 
This species was described in 1905 from a single collection of 
immature and somewhat parasitized pistillate specimens, and at 
that time placed in the section LoncrroLiAE. Not long after describ- 
ing it, I was indebted to Professor W. W. Row tee for calling my 
attention to the fact that the species belonged rather in the NIGRAE, 
and that GOopDING’s no. 719 represented the staminate plant. 
Fic. 2.—Salix Gooddingii Ball: large trees on levee at border of Arizona Agri- 
cultural A Bien: Substation, near Yuma, Arizona, showing form produced in 
open grov 
Such an error would scarcely have been made if mature specimens 
had been in hand. In the present instance the type specimen, 
with its puberulent to pubescent branchlets and tomentose cap- 
sules, constitutes so striking a departure from the characters so 
long associated with the species of section NicrAr, and agrees 
superficially so well with those of far western members of the 
LONGIFOLIAE, that the deception was complete. Recently the 
writer has studied the numerous older collections of this species 
as well as some more recent material. Some interesting notes on 
habit, size, etc., have been obtained by Mrs. AGNES CuaseE and the 
