320 COVILLE 



Kadiak Island. — ^A common species, Coville and Kearney (No. 

 1434), Trelease and Saunders (Nos. 3366, 3475), Brewer and Coe 

 (No. 220), Cole, A. Kellogg, 1867 (No. 221, in part), F. A. Wal- 

 pole, 1900 (No. 1 1 56). 



Alaska Peninsula. — At Kukak Bay, Coville and Kearney (Nos. 

 1633, 1640). On the Nushagak River, C. L. McKay, 1S81. 



Tukon Valley. — On Fortymile Creek, near its junction with the 

 Yukon, Frederick Funston, 1S93 (^o* 40)' Junction of Allen and 

 Koyukuk rivers, F. C. Schrader, 1S99. 



Skagway to Lake Bennett. — Collected at various points, F. A. 

 Walpole, 1900 (Nos. 1060, 1061, 1068, 1084, 10S5, 1269). 



Adelbert von Chamisso, in reporting on the Arctic wallows collected 

 by himself and Eschscholtz on the Kotzebue Expedition, describes a 

 willow as follows : 



Salix pluries nobis obviam venit, an nova species, pulchra^ fruticu- 

 losa, depressa, foliis breviter petiolatis pollicaribus majoribusque 

 lanceolatis ellipticisve utrinque acutis integerrimis glabris, subtus glau- 

 cescentibus, venis pennatis obliquis tenuibus utrinscens [utrinsecus] 

 5-8 notatis, stipulis lineari-filiformibus serratis, amentis lateralibus 

 sessilibus villosis, femineis maturis crassis circiter bipollicaribus, cap- 

 sulis lanatis subsessilibus. Habitus fere Salicis arcticae Pall. — In Pro- 

 montorio Espenbergii Americae transbeeringiensis, inque insula Sti. 

 Laurentii. — An eadem, quam sterilem prope Tigil Kamtschatcae occi- 

 dentalis legit Erman? cui folia majora, latiora, bipollicaria, subinde 

 obovata, venis pluribus primariis utrinsecus 8-io-ornata.^ 



This is an excellent description of a certain willow common in west- 

 ern Alaska, and the description applies to no other species of that 

 region. It is therefore assumed, even in the absence of the type speci- 

 mens, that Chamisso's Salix pulc/wa is identifiable. The species to 

 which the description applies is the Salix phylicoides of Andersson,^ 

 which was afterward divided by its author so as to make an additional 

 ^Y)ec\es^ fulcrata.^ Mr. M. S. Bebb critically investigated the two in 

 1 888 and pointed out their identity, figuring a series of leaves and 

 fruits.* Chamisso's name appears to have been lost sight of, as it is 

 not included in the Index Kewensis, nor is it cited as a published name 

 in any of the works on willows that I have consulted. Andersson al- 

 luded to the plant in 1858, when he referred it '" dubiously to the S. lap- 

 ponum of Linnaeus, but likened its leaves to those of the European 

 species phylicifolia., a wallow so nearly resembling our Alaskan plant 



^Linnaea6: 543. 1831. 



2 0efv. Vet. Akad. Foerh. 15 : 123. 1S5S. 



3Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. IV. 6 : 139. 1867. 



*Bot. Gaz. 13: 186-7.//. 70. 1S88. 



sQefv. Vet. Akad. Foerh. 15: 120. 1858. 



