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basket making or other arts, the widely differing qualities of the 

 various species have caused the Indians to give them discriminating 

 names. Among the natives of Kadlak the word for various other 

 species of willow, nimuyok {iti-md-ydk}~) ^ is doubtless applied to the 

 satin willow also. 



Specimens of sitchensis have been examined as follows : 



Behf?i Cafzal. — At '^ Shehshooh ^ Lake," M. W. Gorman, 1895 

 (No. 38). 



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

 (Xo. 426), Trelease and Saunders (Nos. 3352, 3363), Walter H. 

 Evans, 1S97 (No. 78). 



Sitka. — Along Indian River, Coville and Kearney (No. 838), A. 

 Kellogg, 1S67 (175, in part), Walter H. Evans, 1897 (No. 228). It 

 was here, undoubtedly, that Henry Mertens, the botanist of Liitke's 

 Expedition, in an excursion from Sitka to the summit of the neighbor- 

 ing Mount Verstovia, in the year 1827, discovered this willow. And 

 here the writer on June 16, 1899, on a similar excursion found it still 

 growing. The dense forests of spruce about Sitka do not affbrd suit- 

 able conditions for the tree, and it was not observed at any other point 

 in the vicinity. Exactly similar was the situation in Mertens' time. He 

 says, " Here alone [at the crossing of a ' wild mountain current '] is 

 seen the solitary species of Salix which the environs of Sitcha afford." ^ 



Stephens Passage. — At Taku Harbor, Coville and Kearney (No. 



481). 



Juneau. — In and above Silver Bow Basin, Coville and Kearney 

 (Nos. ^66., 594, 2534), Walter H. Evans, 1897 (No. 155). 



Skag-juay. — At Glacier on the White Pass railroad, F. A. Walpole, 

 1900 (No. 1264). 



Glacier Bay. — Abundant at various points, Coville and Kearney 

 (Nos. 624, 633, 634, 698a, 701), Trelease and Saunders (Nos. 3354, 

 3355^ 3377? 337^), Brewer and Coe (Nos. 38, 39), Kincald. 



La Perouse Glacier. — Near the beach, west of the glacier, Fernow. 



Takutat Bay. — At many points, Coville and Kearney (Nos. 998 to 

 1000, 1082a, 1 121, 1 154), Trelease and Saunders (Nos. 3357, 3358, 



336O' 336I' 3369)- 



Kadiak Island. — At English Bay, about 8 miles south of Kadlak* 

 village, Coville and Kearney (No. 1440). 



^ Supposed to be the lake at the head of Yes Bay. 



2 See Hooker, Bot. Misc. 3: 18. 1833. 



3 This is Woman's Bay of some charts, having been named babia {woman's) 

 by the Russians. W. H. Osgood and F. A. Walpole report that it is known at 

 Kadiak bj the name English Bay only. 



