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“Salix candida Fligge x S. cordata Muhlenberg. 
Staminate plant. Catkins at anthesis 3 cm, long, stout cylin- 
drical, bracts at base small or none. Scales obovate-spatulate, 
dark at tip, hair long and crisp. 
Leaves 8-10 cm. long, narrowed elliptical, tapering each way 
from the middle, rounded at base, rugose and very prominently 
veined, serrulate, light green and mostly smooth above, whitened 
and somewhat woolly beneath ; petioles 8-ro mm. long, slender, 
stipules ovate, semi-cordate inconspicuously veined 4%-¥% length 
of the petiole. Shoot pale chestnut, often hoary. Buds ovate- 
lanceolate, rather blunt, stout and but slightly flattened. Numer- 
ous spherical galls formed of distorted leaves. 
Pistillate plant. Catkins at anthesis 2 cm. long, leafy bracted 
at base. Capsule %4 mm. slender more or less tomentose, 
styles long or short, At maturity 214-4 cm., more densely flow- | 
ered and narrower than in S. candida. Capsule in the forms near 
S. cordata, ovate-lanceolate, tapering gradually to the short style, 
not obtuse, 3-4 mm., long, sutures glabrous and prominent. In 
forms near 5S. candida, the capsules are larger, 5-8 mm., more ob- 
tuse at apex, densely tomentose, sutures not prominent. Style 
slender, I-I14 mm., more obtuse at apex, style more slender. 
Pedice] shorter, not twice the length of the gland scarcely over % 
mm. long. 
Leaves large lanceolate, mostly rounded at base, 10-15 cm. 
long, 1 %-2 cm. broad, narrowing to an acuminate apex, somewhat 
Tugose, strongly veined, primary veins nearly horizontal, margins 
subentire, upper surface becoming glabrous, lower, whitish from 
nearly glabrous to tomentose. Petioles short, 3-5 mm., stout, 
stipules longer than the petioles, ovate to broadly ovate, subcor- 
date, veiny, serrate, subacute and revolute. | 
Shoots long, light chestnut, slender, often tom 
Small, ovate, blunt, varying from narrow to broad, more or less 
_ compressed, divaricate or appressed. 7 
CorRNELL Unversity. 
tion of Plate 267. = ‘ 
PuateE I. 1. Leaf P sarinese X S. cordata, 2. Of S. candida x S. petiola-— 
ris. 3. Of S. candida. 4-17. Winter buds collected in March. 4, 5 oe pee oe 
(staminate). 6, 7. S. cordate (pistilate). 8, 9. 5. earidida XS. petiolaris (pis 
late). 10, 11. S. candida (staminate). 12, 13. 5S. candida peuies ). ieatit 
candida x S. cordata (pistillate). 16,17. 5. candida x & cordate — : e)- ae 
entose, buds 
