214 



ALMOND WILLOW 



Catkins on leafy, lateral, short shoots, on twigs of the 

 preceding year; lax-flowered, with white-pubescent axis, the 

 c/ 1 about 2-58-5 x 1 cm., the ? about 37 x 0'5 0'6 cm. 

 Glands 2 in the </, but only 1 in the ? flower. Scales 



Fig. 61. Almond Willow, Salix triandra, p. 213 (Sc). 



greenish-yellow, glabrous at the back, ciliate, somewhat 

 caducous. Stamens 3, long, smooth, with golden anthers. 

 Ovary pedicellate, oblong-conoid, smooth ; style obsolete ; 



