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limited character of the collections thus far made in Cook Inlet and 

 Prince William Sound do not preclude the possibility of its occurrence 

 in those places. 



Kadiak Island. — Mountain back of Kadiak village, F. A. Wal- 

 pole, 1900 (No. 1227). 



Alaska Peninsula. — Collected in Stepovak Bay, where it was 

 rather abundant, Palache. 



Shumagin Islands. — At Sand Point, Popof Island, Coville and 

 Kearney (No. 1799), and elsewhere on the same island, Trelease and 

 Saunders (No. 3425). 



Pribilof Islands. — Abundant and forming large mats near the vil- 

 lage of St. Paul, St. Paul Island, Coville and Kearney (No. 1837), 

 Trelease and Saunders (No. 3442), Kincaid, Cole, Brewer and Coe 

 (Nos. 325, 329), Mrs. Bryant, 1875, William Palmer, 1890 (Nos. 353, 

 424, 556), C. H. Townsend, 1893, J. M. Macoun, 1897. 



St. Matthew Islands. — On St. Matthew Island, Coville and Kear- 

 ney (No. 2087), Trelease and Saunders (No. 3448), Brewer and Coe 

 (No. 469). On Hall Island, Coville and Kearney (Nos. 2084, 2085). 



St. Lawrence Island. — A.\. Northeast Cape, Trelease and Saunders 

 (No. 3443), Cole. 



Point Barrow. — Collected by John Murdoch, 1882-3 (No. 65). 



Siberian Coast. — At Kayne, or Arakamtchechene, Island, collected 

 on the Ringgold and Rodgers U. S. North Pacific Exploring Expedi- 

 tion, C. Wright, 1853-6. 



Various other collections of the plant have been made about Bering 

 Sea and north of Bering Strait along the Arctic coast of Alaska, the 

 easternmost record, between Point Barrow and the Mackenzie River, 

 resting on a specimen collected by Lieutenant W. J. S. Pullen, in 1849. 



The name Salix unalaschcensis which is often cited as published 

 by Chamisso in 1831,^ can not properly, it seems to the writer, be 

 cited as of that date, the word unalaschcensis being merely the first 

 word in a Latin note on a willow to which Chamisso did not give a 

 name. In another precisely similar case he began " Salix ad portum 

 Sancti Francisci." It evidently did not occur to Ledebour that the 

 word had any nomenclatorial intent or value for he did not cite it in 

 his Flora Rossica. The first use of Salix unalaschcensis in such a 

 way as to give it standing in nomenclature appears to be Andersson's 

 citation of it in 1858, as given above. He at that time referred it 

 doubtfully to the plant we now know as Salix fuscescens Anders. 

 Later, in 1868,^ he referred it to Salix ovalifolia.^ the species, and the 



*Cham. Linnaea 6: 541. 1831. " Anders, in DC. Prod. 16*: 291. 1868. 



