A siirvey of the Pliytogeography of the Arctic American Archipelago <o 
Gulf (SH), GiKSE, Boas (ex Ambkonn, Kingua), Kumlien (Plants), »common», Tavlor 
(Pl. Baff.), Kivitung, Boas (ex Ambronn, 1. c), Cape Haven, Schuohkrt & Whitk 
(ex Holm, Cat ); North Devon: Powell Creek, Lyall (KH). 
Geographic area. Grcenland, arctic and subarctic America and mountains 
to the south, (arctic Siberia ?), Altai and other mountains in Asia, northern parts 
and mountains of Europé. 
The area of this species in America seems to be principally an eastern one, 
even if it is found in the Rocky Mountains and in Ahiska, and tliis seems to be 
in good accord with its common appearance in Greenland and its probable absence 
from Siberia. It bas certainly often been confounded with S. polaris which appears 
in America oniv very sparingly in the northwestern region and is totally absent 
from the Arctic Islands and from Greenland, but most probably distributed all 
over the arctic part of Asia. 
? Salix polaris, Wahlenb. 
Distribution. »Islands north of Lancaster Sound, Parry Islands, including Melville 
Island», HooKER (Outlines;. t' A ' f Russia and mountains of 
North Devon, belonging to S 
hel running thus: >S. polarii 
of S. arctica, probably the si 
CVELYAN.. This is a small 
128, has named subpolaris- 
iia (S. myrsinites, S. retusa, 
76. Salix glacialis, Anderss. 
Distribution Banks Land: Ballast Beach, Mikktschixg (KH). 
Geographic area. Northwestern parts of North America. 
Macoun Cat., p. 452, seems to have included this u.idei S. ovalifolm, Trautv., 
without entering Ander880n's name among tlie synonyms. 1 do, liowever, think it 
safer to foUow Andersson, who bas tliem as separate species m Sal. N. Amer., 
p. 131, where the plant here in question is established, as well as m de Candolle, 
Prodr. XVI, p. 300. Phvtogeographically it is of no consequence if tlie two forms 
are united or kept separated, as S. omlifolia is a plant of northeastern Asia and 
also recorded from Alaska by Andersson. 
vestita, a native of Labrador, 
