636 Von SEEMEN: WILLOWS FROM THE FAR WEsT 
the leaves, with yellowish green, smooth subtending scales, erect, 
the short peduncle clothed with short gray hairs and bearing 
small, lanceolate, entire or finely serrate, smooth or scantily 
pubescent leaves ; staminate ament oval or short-cylindrical, 2 cm. 
long or less, 7 mm. thick, somewhat narrowed toward the apex, 
dense-flowered; axis beset with long, light gray, curly hairs; 
bracts oval, contracted below, apex obtuse or round, the upper 
half brown, the lower light, the base densely and the surfaces 
sparsely clothed with long, light gray, curly hairs ; stamens 3, oF 
sometimes 2 in the upper part of the ament, two or three times as 
long as the bract, the lower half bearing scanty, long, light gray, 
curly hairs ; anthers oval, yellow; glands 2, posterior, ovate, truncate 
or divided, half as long as the bract ; pistillate aments erect, stalked 
like the staminate, short-cylindric, 22 mm. or less in length, 12 
mm. thick, somewhat loosely flowered; axis like the staminate ; 
bracts like the staminate, one third to one half as long as the stipe; 
the capsule stipitate, short-conical, from an oval base, obtuse, 
smooth ; stipe longer than the capsule, smooth: style very short, 
thick ; stigmas short, oval, retuse or divided, erect ; gland 1, poste- 
rior, ovate, truncate or divided, one sixth to one fourth as long as 
the stipe. 
King’s Cafion, Ormsby County, Nevada, at 1700~2000 m. 
(C. F. Baker, Plants of Nevada, wo. 924, June 1, 1902.) 
