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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



globose, ovate or ovate-conical, long-stalked, with nearly sessile slightly divided 

 stigmatic lobes. Fruit globose-conical, about \' long, light reddish brown, minutely 

 glandular. 



A tree, occasionally 30*^ high, with a trunk 6'-8' in diameter, slender spreading 

 slightly drooping branches, and slender branchlets not easily separated at the joints, 



hoary-pubescent sometimes into their second year, becoming in their first winter red- 

 dish brown and gray tinged with brown the following year; usually smaller, fre- 

 quently shrubby in habit. Winter-buds bright chestnut-brown, lustrous, about 

 Y^g' long. Bark '^'-^' thick, dark reddish brown or nearly black, deeply ridged and 

 crosschecked, covered by small closely appressed plate-like scales. Wood dark red- 

 brown, with thin nearly white sapwood. 



Distribution. Rocky or gravelly banks and beds of streams; near the city of 

 Washington, near Lexington, Kentucky, central Tennessee and western Illinois, cen- 

 tral Missouri, and southward to southern Florida, the Indian Territory, southern 

 Texas, and New Mexico; very abundant and a conspicuous feature of vegetation in the 

 Ozark region of southwestern Missouri and in northwestern and western Arkansas. 



3. Salix amygdaloides, Anders. Peach Willow. Almond Willow. 



Leaves revolute in the bud, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, frequently falcate, 

 wedge-shaped or gradually rounded and often unequal at the base, gradually or 

 abruptly narrowed into long slender points, finely serrate, slightly puberulous when 

 they unfold, becoming at maturity thin and firm in texture, light green and lustrous 

 above, pale and glaucous below, 2i'-4' long, f -1^' wide, with stout yellow or orange- 

 colored midribs, prominent veins and reticulate veinlets; their petioles elongated, 

 slender, nearly terete; stipules reniform, serrate, often 1' broad on vigorous shoots, 

 usually caducous. Flo"wers: aments elongated, cylindrical, slender, arcuate, stalked, 

 pubescent or tomentose, 2'-3' long, on leafy branches; their scales yellow, sparingly 

 villous on the outer, densely villous on the inner face, the staminate broadly ovate, 

 rounded at the apex, the pistillate oblong-obovate, narrower, caducous; stamens 5-9, 

 with free filaments slightly hairy at the base; ovary oblong-conical, long-stalked, 

 glabrous, with a short style and emarginate stigmas. Fruit globose-conical, light 

 reddish yellow, about \' long. 



