THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



Vol. X, No. 116. 



PA RT II. 



On Some Species of Salix of Hokkaido. I 



By 

 E. Tokubuehi. 



With PI. VI. 



I intend in the following numbers of this Magazine to report on 

 some species of Salix indigenous to the Hokkaido, of which very little 

 have been known. Recently Captain 0. von Seemen described several 

 new species of the Hokkaido Salix from the dried specimens, which 

 Prof. K. Miyabe had sent to the Botanical Museum in Berlin. I shall 

 first take up these species and publish their portraits and descriptions 

 drawn up from the fresh materials. 



1. Salix Miyabeana, von Seemen, in Engler Bot. Jahrb. Band 

 XXI. Heft. 4. Beibl. No. 53, p. 50 ; Tokubucchi, Tokyo Bot. Mag. Vol. 

 X, No. 110, p. 125. 



Jap. name. Yezo-no-kawayanagi. 



A shrub or small tree usually 2f — 3 meters high, often attaining 

 to the height of 5 meters and the diameter of about 16 cm at the 

 base, with a short distinct trunk, covered with a grayish coarse bark, 

 and usually divided into two or three main branches ; branches ob- 

 liquely erect, somewhat thickly subdivided, covered with a grayish 

 rather smooth bark ; twigs rather stout, of a slightly brown or of an ashy 



