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3, melanopsis Nutt. Dark green shrub or smalltree 3-5 m, tall, the ; 
P ® F ) 
twigs glabrous and dark brown; leaves narrowly oblanceolate or lineans> { 
elliptical, acute at both ends commonly 4=8 em, long, 6-15 ma, wide, finely | 
denticulete, less often subentire, dark green and glabrous above, pale and 
glaucous beneath; stipules evident, more or less deltoid, toothed; petioles 
indefinite nearly wanting; catkins 5-4 em, long, obtuse, glabrous or thinly 
hairy; capsule glabrous, 4-5 mm, long, sessile or nearly so. 
Along streams at lower elevations. Upper Priest R, 3000 fte; Wallace. 
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var, Molanderiane (Rowlec) Schne Leaves more or less pubescent beneath, 
wes With the svccies, even more prevalent. 
Te Se lutea iutt. Usually dense shrubs 2-5 m,. tall with glabrous yellow 
branchlets; leaves yellowish-green, oblong or oblongeellintical, 4-8 cme 
long, 1-205 cm, wide, sanering rather abruptly above the middle to a sharp 
point, rounded or even subcordate at the base, finely and evenly serrulsate, 
glabrous, palei or glaucous beneath; petioles slender, 5-8 mm, long, stinule 
conspicuous, mostly kidney-shayed and clasping, serrulate or entire; catkins 
neerly sessile on very short leafy twigs, the scaminate 2-6 cm, long, the 
pistillate 2-4 cm. long, lcm. wide; stamens 23; bracts obovate tewny, downy; 
capsules plump, glabrous, 4-9 mm. long, on vedicels 1-2 mm, long. (S. cordat 
Piper), 
Along streams at lower elevations, Thatuna hills, Spling &  Louck Olt 
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