60 Forest Trees and Shrubs of Meriden, Conn. 



49. SALIX DISCOLOR. (Muhlenberg.) 



Bog Willow. Glaucous W^illow. 



A tall tree, or more often a tall, straggling herb. Wood, light, 

 soft, close-grained ; color, brown, streaked with orange. Specific 

 gravity, 0.4261; ash, 0.43. 



50. SALIX ERIOCEPHALA. (Anderson.) S. PRIN- 



OIDES. (PuRSH.) 



Silky-headed Swamp Willow. 



Identified by John P. Hall. These are varieties of the S. dis- 

 color. 



51. SALIX CORDATA. (Mulhenberg.) 



Heart-leaved W^illow. Diamond W^illow^. 



A small tree, but more often a straggling shrub. Wood, light, 

 soft, close-grained. Very rarely in Meriden attains arborescent 

 size or habit. 



52. SALIX ALBA. (Linn.) 



White Willow. 



This is an introduced, but inferior, forest tree, and scarcely 

 worth cultivating. The variety 6". vitellina, Yellow Willow, or 

 Golden Osier, has orange-yellow branches, and rather shorter and 

 broader leaves, and is more extensively propagated than any other 

 foreign Willow. 



53. SALIX NIGRA. (Marshall.) 



Black Willow. 



A small tree from fifteen to thirty feet high, and not common 

 in Meriden. It has a rough, black bark, and the wood is soft, 

 weak and close-grained. The tonic and astringent bark is used 

 medicinally, and contains, in common with that of all species of 

 the genus, salicylic acid. Specific gravity, 0.4456 ; ash, 0.70. 



54. SALIX LUCIDA. (Muhl.) 



Shining Willow. Glossy Willowr. 



Rarely more than twenty feet high ; color, light brown ; wood, 

 light, not strong, brittle and close grained. Specific gravity, 

 0.4547; ash, 0.79. 



