274 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Group Seventh. The Ochre Flowered Willows. Fulvce. Barratt. 



Male aments rather short, cylindrical, expanding with the 

 leaves, tawny or ochre-colored ; scales yellow ; stamens two, long, 

 diverging, expanding first from the base of the ament. Female 

 aments lax, finally lengthened ; ovaries on long stalks, silky, 

 narrow-lanceolate. A shrub with dichotomous branches and tough 

 twigs. — Barratt. 



Sp. 18. The Beaked Willow. S. roslrdia. Richardson. 



Branches erect, rather close, pubescent, finally smooth ; leaves broad or ob- 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, very entire, serrate, submembranaceous, becoming sub- 

 coriaceous, rather naked above, glaucous and whitish-downy beneath ; stipules 

 semicordate, dentate; male aments rather short, cylindrical, dense-flowered; 

 female at last very long and lax ; scales oblong, membranaceous, hairy at the 

 apex, nearly as long as the stalk; ovaries narrow-lanceolate, silky, with a 

 long acumination, on a very long stalk ; style very short ; lobes of the stigma 

 notched or entire. — Richardson, Appendix, p. 37, as quoted by Hooker, Fl. 

 Bor. Am., II, 147. 



This is a distinct and well characterized willow, found grow- 

 ing in every variety of soil, more frequently in dry, but flour- 

 ishing best in one moderately rich and moist, in open woods, or 

 by the sides of forests. It is a shrub or small tree, from three 

 or four, to ten or twelve, or even fifteen feet high. 



The stem is reddish or olive-green, or gray, striated, with 

 an orange-grayish, or clay-colored epidermis. The shoots are 

 downy, of a reddish purple, or yellowish, or reddish above, 

 where exposed to the sun, and green beneath. In drying, they 

 turn to a brown or dark purple. The leaves are on short, 

 downy footstalks ; obovate, oblong-elliptical, or broad lanceolate, 

 often inequilateral, rounded or tapering at base, acuminate on 

 the ends of the branches and recent shoots, with the acumina- 

 tion turned half round ; near the stem, shorter and broader, 

 pointed, or obtuse; downy, or smooth, but with the surface 

 always conspicuously netted with depressed veins above, and 

 white-downy beneath. Margin entire or waved, crenulate or 

 serrate, the serratures ending in a black point. The stipules 

 are ear-shaped, often nearly entire, sometimes cleft to the base, 



