WILLOW FAMILY 



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L Salix lasiandra Bentham. Red Willow. Fig. 1190. 



5". lasiandra Benth. PI. Hartweg. 335. 1857. 



5. speciosa Nutt. N. Am. Sylva 1: 58. pi. 17. 1843, not 



Host, 1828, or Hook, and Arn. 1832. 

 5'. arguta lasiandra Anderss. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 



Handl. (Monog. Sal.) 6: 33. 1867. 

 5'. lasiandra lyallii Sarg. Card. & For. 8: 463. 1895. 

 5". lyallii (Sarg.) Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 580. 1898. 



A tree, 5-15 m. high ; bark rough ; twigs deep 

 red, lustrous ; leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceo- 

 late or sometimes oblanceolate, acuminate at the 

 apex, acute to rounded at the base, closely 

 gladular crenate-serrulate, dark green and shin- 

 ing above, glaucous beneath, 6-10 cm. long, 1.5- 

 3.5 cm. wide, up to 5x20 or 30 cm. on 

 sprouts ; stipules small, acute, glandular ; petioles 

 stout, glandular above near base of blade ; aments 

 pedunculate ; staminate aments 2-6 cm. long, 1- 

 1.3 cm. wide; pistillate aments 3-10 cm. long, 1.2- 

 2 cm. wide; scales lanceolate to ovate, usually 

 dentate, sometimes glandular at the apex; cap- 

 sule pale straw-color or light brown, lanceolate, 

 5-7 mm. long; pedicel 1.5-2 mm. long; style 

 short. 



Stream banks, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; 

 British Columbia and Alberta to southern California and 

 central New Mexico. Type locality: "ad flumen Sacra- 

 mento," California. 



Salix lasiandra abramsi Ball, Bet. Gaz. 72: 224. 1921. Differs from the species in narrower leaves, 

 5-11 cm. long, 1-1.7 cm. wide, with margins shallowly serrulate to sub-entire; scarc2ly glandular petioles, and 

 usually shorter aments, 2-3, or sometimes 4 cm. long. 



Stream banks, Arid Transition Zone; Sierra Nevada Mountains from Plumas County south to Fresno 

 County, California. Type locality: "near Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, altitude 

 4000-4500 feet." 



Salix lasiandra lancifolia (Anderss.) Bebb. Willows Calif, (repr. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 84.) 1879. 

 (Sali.v lancifolia Anderss. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. (Monog. Sal.) 6: 34. pi. 2, f. 23. 1867.) Young 

 branchlets more or less densely pubescent-pilose. VVith the species, especially in the northern part of its 

 range. Type locality: "America septentrionali-occidentali in insula Vancouver." 



2. Salix c^udata (Nutt.) Heller. Caudate Willow. 



Fig. 



1191 



Salix pcntandra caudata Nutt. Sylva. 



1842. 

 Salix lasiandra caudata (Nutt.) Sudw 



Club 20: 43. 1893 



1: 61. pi. IS. 

 . Bull. Torrey 



Salix caudata (Nutt.) Heller Muhlenb. 2: 186. 1906. 

 Salix fendleriana of various authors, not Anderss. 

 Salix lasiandra fendleriana (Anderss.) Bebb. Willows 

 Calif, (repr. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 84.) 1879. 



A cespitose shrub, 2-5 m. high; twigs long, 

 reddish to chestnut, shining ; leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate to lanceolate, long-acuminate, dark 

 green on both sides or somewhat paler but 

 never glaucous beneath, 6-13 cm. long, 1.2-3 

 cm. wide, closely glandular-serrulate ; stipules 

 usually none, if present, small, semicordate to 

 rcniform ; staminate aments 2-4 cm. long, 1- 

 1.2 cm. wide; pistillate 2-5.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. 

 wide ; scales lanceolate to oblanceolate. glabrate 

 outside ; Capsule pale straw-color or brownish, 

 5-7 mm. long; pedicels 1-1.5 nun. long; styles 

 0.5-0.7 mm. long. 



Mountain streams and meadows, to 9,000 feet ele- 

 vation, Arid Transition and Canadian Zones; from 

 British Columbia and Washington, east of the Cascade 

 Mountains, east to Alberta and the Black Hills of 

 .South Dakota, and south to east central California, 

 southern Utah, and northern New Mexico. Type locality: "by streams in the valleys of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, towards their western slope, in Oregon, and also the Blue Mountains of the same territory." 



Salix caudata parvifolia Ball, Bot. Gaz. 72: 225. /. 1. 1921. Leaves smaller, 5-8 cm. long, 7-12 mm. wide. 

 With the species from Wasco County, Oregon, to the Yellowstone Park, and Alberta in the Rocky Mountains 

 at Banff. Type locality: "along Swiftcurrent Creek, below Lake McDermott," Glacier National Park, Montana. 



