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are grayish green, or gray ; the recent shoots a bronze yellow, 

 often clouded, brownish and downy ; often bright red where 

 exposed to much light. The lower serratures of the leaves are 

 enlarged, prolonged and rigid. 



It is found between Fort Franklin and Cumberland House, 

 in British America, and in Pennsylvania. In this State, I have 

 found it on the Hoosic, abundantly on the Connecticut, about 

 the pond in Westminster from whence flows the Nashua, and 

 along the banks of that river. 



" This strong and handsome species furnishes excellent twigs 

 and rods for the heaviest kinds of basket-work. This willow 

 and S. corddta are very ornamental in groves and plantations. 

 There are several varieties of & rigidu, and of the aments I 

 have met with great diversity. The largest of these catkins 

 are one and a half to two inches long, and when the flowering 

 season is fine, and the catkins have escaped being drenched with 

 rain, I have found these flowers of great beauty, exhibiting a 

 play of colors from violet or purple to yellow ; as the stamens 

 rise over the tips of the scales from their downy bed, they yield 

 the resplendent colors of the rainbow, and this zone is carried 

 symmetrically onward, by the successive elongation of the fila- 

 ments." — Barratt. 



Sp. 21. Torrey's Willow. S. Torreyana. Barratt. 



Leaves heart-ovate, sharply pointed, one and a half inches wide, four inches 

 long; margin wavy and finely serrate ; above smooth, deep green, beneath 

 paler ; stipules large, one half to three quarters of an inch broad, half-heart- 

 shaped. Male ament slender; when expanded, one and a half to two inches 

 long ; scales imbricate, lanceolate, blackish and ciliate ; stamens two, filaments 

 rather short. Female ament, rachis slender, clothed with soft, dull white 

 hairs. Germens on short pedicels, smooth, deltoid-lanceolate ; stigma four- 

 parted ; in flowering time, flesh-colored, mature capsules green, somewhat 

 compressed, twigs tough, smooth, greenish purple. Adult leaves coriaceous. 

 — Barratt. 



Flowers April 12—18 in Middletown. 



Dr. Barratt named this hitherto undescribed willow in honor 

 of his friend Professor Torrey of New York. 



'•This ornamental willow seldom exceeds eight or ten feet in 

 height : and will be readily recognized in autumn from the other 



