210 



CRACK WILLOW 



shortly diverging bifid stigmas. Capsule hairy ; the scales 

 of the fruiting catkins caducous. 



[The peculiarity of snapping at the articulations is 

 only shared by the twigs of 8. triandra and certain hybrid 



varietal forms. The stamens of S. fragilis are not 



or 



Fig. 58. Crack Willow, Salix fragilis. 1, male, and 2, female 

 flowering shoot ; 3, male, and 4, female flower, enlarged ; 5, vertical 

 section of latter; 6, ripe capsule; 7, seed, p. 209 (Wo). 



