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13. 5. Aeyeriana Andersse Low leafy shrub ,.5-1 m, tall, much branched with © 
slender glabrous blackish twigs which may be more or less glaucous; leaves | 
narrowly elliptical or elliptical-oblanceolate, commonly 4-6 cm, long, 5-10 
mn, wide, acute or acuminate at the avex, narrowed, or less often, rounded 
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at the base, entire, green above, paler and more or less Silvery beneath, 
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particularly when young; stipules none; petioles commonly 3-8 mm, long; 
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catkins on very short leafy branchlets, the staminate scarcely 1 cm, long, 
ovoid, the pistillate 1-1.5 cm, long, numerous; bracts elliptical-oblong, 
thinly hairy, the tips reddish; stamens 23 capsules 5-7 mm, long, puberulent, 
on vedicels 2-2,5 mm, long. 
Along streams and lake shores at lower elevationse 
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vare argentea (Bebbe) Schn, Twigs more or less pubescent, the leaves, 
especially the younger, silvery. —i/ith the species. 
14, Se subcaecrulea Piper. Shrub 1-3 m,. tall with glabrous conspicuously 
white-glaucous branchlets; buds glaucous; leaves narrowly oblong or oblongs) 
elliptical, rarely oblanceolate, 3-8 cm, long, .5-2.5 cm, broad, mostly 
acute at both ends, or rounded at the base on suckers, subentire, green 
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and glabrous above, with a close satiny seiterg pubescence beneath, the 
midveins bencath being glabrous and yellow; petioles 5-10 mm, long; stipules | 
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usually none; catkins POZO » sessile or nearly so, compact, 1-4 cm, 
long; stamens 2, their filaments glabrous, free; bracts ovate or obovate, 
thinly hairy, browns; capsules subsessile, silvery, 3.5-5 mm. long; style 
1-1,.5 mm, longe 
Along streams or lakes mostly at higher elevations, 
