Childs 1957 Plant Communities 2 July Patwyea River, Cape Sabine, Alaska Sphagnum, Caltha palustris, Potentilla palustris willows may be present as Salix Richardsonii or Salix pulchra. Either species of willow may dominate although here it appears to be Salix Richardsonii * modified marsh or small stream bede (B-1) has arctagrostis, etc. 2. Arctophila marsh. (symbol L-1). This is found where there is standy water, normally greater than 6" deep. The soils are hydrosols normally in bog areas. Arctophila fulva dominates with some aquatic mosses. 3. Puccinellia or Phippisia "mud flats". This is found on wet alluvium of estuaries or lower river terraces. V SHRUB TYPES 1. Feltleaf Willow. (Symbol L-126). This is to be found on floodplains of the river or its larger tributaries where alluvial materials, mostly gravels, are overlain with silty sands. The following description is based on a well developed stand about 5 miles inland. Species found are Salix alapensis, 2-6 ft. tall. (occasionally 10'), Salix glanca asp.dorsatorum?, Salix Richardsonii, (latter 3 manally lower