3l6 COVILLE 



Seemann in his Botany of the Herald, page 40, reports Salix ricJi- 

 ardsoni as occurring on the Arctic sea coast of Alaska from Kotzebue 

 Sound to Cape Lisburne, but his description of the ovaries as "cov- 

 ered w^ith a slight down " throvs^s doubt on the identification and sug- 

 gests that they may belong to Salix pulchra. The willow from Kadiak 

 reported by Kellogg as richardsoni proves to be pulchra. 



In Hooker's original description the leaves of Salix I'ichardsoni are 

 described as " integerrimis." One of the duplicate type specimens 

 from Fort Franklin, in the Columbia University Herbarium, has some 

 partially developed leaves and these show a sparse denticulation pre- 

 cisely as in the Lake Bennett and Port Clarence specimens. The more 

 nearly mature leaves of the Port Clarence plant indicate also that the 

 base is not always as narrow as is shown in the Hooker plate. 



7. SALIX BARCLAYI Anders. Barclay Willow. 



Plate xxxvi. 



Salix ba^clayi Anders. Oefv. Vet. Akad. Foerh. 15 : 125. 1858. 

 Salix conjuncta Bebb, Bot. Gaz. 13: in. 1888. 



The commonest bush willow of the Alaskan coast. It is an erect 

 shrub, ordinarily one to two, sometimes three, meters in height, with 

 leaves oblong-obovate, acute or somewhat acuminate at the apex, 

 rounded or wedge-shaped or even cordate at the base, commonly 4 to 

 7 cm. long, glaucous on the back, smooth or with scant villous or 

 tomentose pubescence which is mostly early deciduous, the stipules 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, toothed, persistent, and the ovaries smooth 

 throughout. The characters given in the key distinguish it from re- 

 lated Alaskan species. It ranges throughout the coast region of south- 

 ern Alaska, from Dixon Entrance northward and westward as far as 

 Unalaska. Southward from Alaska it extends at least as far as the state of 

 Washington. The original specimens of Salix Barclay iv^ere collected 

 at a point near Cape Greville on Kadiak Island, Alaska, by George 

 Barclay, the botanical collector of the British ship Sulphur, in 1839. 



Alaskan specimens of this species have been examined as follows : 



Wrangell, — On a hillside back of the town, Coville and Kearney 

 (No. 444), Fernow. 



Juneau. — In and near Silver Bow Basin, Coville and Kearney (No. 

 565), Grace E. Cooley, 1S91, F. A. Walpole, 1900 (No. 1053). 



White Pass and vicinity. — At various points about Skagway and 

 along the White Pass railroad to Lake Bennett, F. A. Walpole, 1900 

 (Nos. 1055 to 1057, 1065, 1069, 1261, 1276). 



Glacier Bay. — Common on almost all the shores of the bay, Coville 



