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Kadiak Island. Mr. Bebb's original specimens were all from the 

 mountains of Oregon and Washington. 



The Alaska specimens examined are as follows : 



White Pass.— At Log Cabin, Vista, and White Pass, F. A. Wal- 

 pole, 1900 (Nos. 1066, 1370, 1279). 



Glacier Bay. — On the gravels at Muir Glacier, at Hooniah village, 

 Coville and Kearney (Nos. 638, 654), and in Berg Inlet, Kincaid. 



Takutat Bay. — At several points in Disenchantment Bay and Rus- 

 sell Fiord, Coville and Kearney (No. 997), Trelease and Saunders 

 (Nos. 3463, 3464), and on the west side of Yakutat Bay, Coville and 

 Kearney (No. 1118), Fernow. 



Prince William Sound. — Incomplete specimens from Port Wells 

 are doubtfully referred here, Coville and Kearney (No. 1274), Tre- 

 lease and Saunders (No. 3474). 



Kadiak Islaiid. — Along a small stream near the summit of the 

 mountain back of Kadiak village, F. A. Walpole, 1900 (No. 1182). 

 Specimens of this willow were brought from a mountain back of 

 English Bay by Miss Harriman, but the specimens unfortunately were 

 not preserved. 



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

 16 1 8, 1680), Trelease and Saunders (No. 3482). 



The history of this species, briefly stated, is as follows : In the year 

 1888 Mr. M. S. Bebb published two closely related new species of 

 willows, commutata ^ and conjuncta^^ which he considered interme- 

 diate between £-lauca and cor data. Later, in the light of further col- 

 lections, he recognized and alluded to ^ the close relationship of these 

 species with the older Salix Barclay i of Andersson and his own Salix 

 calif ornica.^ Still later he described^ bar clay i as a species exhibit- 

 ing '^ a degree of variation remarkable even among willows," and was 

 inclined to refer to it as synonymous his commutata and conjunct a .^ an 

 inclination to which he afterward yielded as evidenced by his identifi- 

 cations of willows sent to him from the National Herbarium. From 

 the large series of specimens now available and from field observation 

 of these willows in the Cascade Mountains and in Alaska, I do not 

 hesitate to express the opinion that Salix harclayi and Salix coininu- 

 tata are two valid species, and that conjuncta is a synonym of har- 

 clayi. No botanist with mature leaf specimens of the two plants be- 



^Bot. Gaz. 13: no. 1888. 



2Idem, III. 



^Idem, 16: 106-7. 1891. 



4 Bebb in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. 2 : 89. 1880. 



sContr. Nat. Herb. 4: 198. 1893. 



