410 SALICACEAE 
pineland ipo. and Titi bays, Coastal Plain, N. Fla. to Miss.—Remarkable 
for the lack of fragrance in the foliage. The leaves are smooth, while in the 
preceding ae they are scurfy. 
3. COMPTONIA Banks. Monoecious shrubs. Leaves deciduous; ; blades 
pinnatifid. Pistillate aments m Fruit not drupe-like, surrounded by a 
bur-like involucre.—One species: 
1. C. peregrina (L.) Coulter. Shrub 3 
dm. tall: leaf-blades is ey a = b 
lanceolate, em n he segments A 
obtuse: staminate aments 1-3 cm. g, the 
bracts long stillate aments 8 NS 
bur-like: nut ovoid, 5 mm. long, shining | Mj83I//, 
(SwEET-FE ERN-BUSH. SWEET-BUSH.) d WL, 
—Dry sterile soil, various provinces, N Ga. NS E 
and Tenn. to Man. and N. S.—8Spr.—The NU e 
pleasant a oF the foliage may often SS OAS 
be discerned distant from the plant. 
us plant of poor soil, often 
making very dense colonies, almost exclud- 
ing other growth. 
Orper SALICALES — SALICAL ORDER 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades simple, entire or toothed. 
Flowers dioecious in aments, the staminate consisting of an androecium 
of 2 or more stamens, the pistillate consisting of a gynoecium of 2 or 4 
united carpels. Ovules numerous. Fruit capsular. 
AN 
Famity 1. SALICACEAE — WiLLow FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees with soft wood. Leaf-blades very narrow to very 
wide. Aments erect or drooping, the bracts mostly ciliate or toothed. 
Capsule narrowed to the apex. Seed usually with a tuft of hairs.—Two 
genera, the following, and more than 250 species, widely distributed in 
temperate and arctic regions. 
n incised : disk cup-like: stamens usually 10 or more, rarely 6-8: stigmas elon- 
gate and expanded: winter ipe with several scales. 1. POPULUS. 
e ae disk merely 1 or more ax illary glands: stamens less 
0: stigmas Thot Hob audeo winter buds with 1 scale 
2. SALIX. 
1. POPULUS [Tourn.] L. Trees, the buds with several scales. Leaf- 
tha 
blades palmately veined, relatively lone: petioled. Sta more than 10, or 
rarely 6 or 8: anthers purple or red. Ovary sessile. Stigua dilated.—4A bout 
30 species, natives of the Northern Hemisphere.—The wood is used in con- 
struction and for ei paper pulp.—Spr.—-POoPLARS. (0:99 0035 
SHE NN slender lobes: terminal buds small, short, not glutinous, or only 
slig 
s slender, of a conic type: bracts of the aments 
| d, th lobes narrow: leaf-blades glabrous or nearly 
at incu I. GBANDIDENTATAE. 
Capsule oU. Eo an ovoid type: bracts of the aments 
crenate : leaf-blades p white-tomentose. II. ALBAE. 
Spa Ni mn cone ad lobes: terminal buds large, long, very 
giu 
