42 SALICACEAE (WILLOW FAMILY) 



green, the outer bract with margins united above the base. Capsules 

 dull brown or purple-tinged. Meadows, fields, and damp, sandy soil. 



SALICACEAE (WILLOW FAMILY) 



Dioecious trees or shrubs with both kinds of flowers in catkins, 

 one flower to each bract. No perianths. Stigmas 2, often 2-lobed. 

 Leaves alternate and undivided, with stipules which are either 

 scale-like, and deciduous or leaf-like and persistent. 



SALIX (WILLOW) 



Leaves mostly long and pointed. Buds covered by a single 

 scale. Catkins appearing before or with the leaves. Largely 



wind- pollinated and 

 freely hybridizing. 



S. nigra, BLACK WIL- 

 LOW. Scales yellowish, 

 falling before the capsules 

 mature. Filaments hairy 

 below. Stamens 3-5 or 

 more. Shrub, or, when 

 well developed, a rough- 

 barked tree 5-30 m. high. 

 Young branches easily 

 breaking off. Leaves nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, very 

 long-a ttenuate, often 

 downy when young, but 

 becoming green and gla- 

 brous except the short pet- 

 iole and midrib, closely 

 serrulate. Scales soft- 

 pubescent outside. Banks 

 of streams, ponds, and 

 lakes. 



S. amygdaloides, PEACH-LEAVED WILLOW. Scales yellowish, fall- 

 ing before the capsules mature. Filaments hairy below. Stamens 3-5 

 or more. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, pale or glaucous be- 

 neath. Petioles slender. Stipules minute and very early deciduous. 



Salix, Willow. Leaf, and staminate and pis- 

 tillate flowers and inflorescences. 



