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SALICACEAE 



3. Salix gooddingii Ball. 

 Goodding's Willow. Fig. 1192. 



Salix gooddingii Ball, Bot. Gaz. 40: 376. pi. 12. f. 



1-2. 1905; 72: 227-234. /. 2-4. 1921. 

 Salix nigra of numerous authors, not Marshall. 

 Salix nigra vallicola Dudley in Abrams, Fl. Los 



Angeles 100. 1904. 

 Salix vallicola (Dudley) Britton, N. Am. Trees 



134. /. 141. 1908. 



A tree, 9-12 m. in height, reaching 9 dm. 

 in trunk diameter ; twigs yellowish, the 

 seasonal densely pubescent ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 finely glandular-serrulate, grayish green on 

 both sides, often more or less pubescent 

 until half grown, 8-15 mm. wide, 6-10 cm. 

 long, veins prominent above ; petioles 6-10 

 mm. long, densely pubescent to glabrate ; 

 stipules often glandular on upper surface. 

 Aments coetaneous, 4-6 or 8 cm. long, lax, 

 or lateral leafy branches 2-4 cm. long; 

 stamens 4-5 ; capsules ovate-conic, 5.5-7 

 mm. long, thinly to densely pilose at 

 anthesis, becoming glabrous ; pedicels 2-3 



mm. long ; styles and stigmas very short, scales oblanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. long, yellow. 



Stream banks up to 1,500 feet altitude. Upper and Lower Sonoran Zones; Tehama County, California, to 



Lower California, southern Nevada and Arizona. Type locality: Muddy Creek, Lincoln County, Nevada. 



4. Salix amygdaloides Anderss. 

 Peach-Leaved Willow. Fig. 1193. 



5. amvgadaloides Anderss. in Ofv. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 

 Forh. 15: 114. 1858. 



A tree, 3-12 m. high, yellowish-green in mass- 

 color, youngest twigs yellow, slender, somewhat 

 drooping ; leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, closely serrulate, light green above, paler 

 and usually glaucous beneath, 5-12 cm. long, 1.5-3 

 cm. wide; petioles slender, 5-15 mm. long, glab- 

 rous; aments appearing with the leaves on leafy 

 branches, the staminate slender, yellow, 3-5 cm. 

 long, the pistillate lax, 4-8 cm. long in fruit ; scales 

 yellow, lanceolate or broader, glabrous outside, 

 crisp villous inside ; stamens 5-7 ; capsules lanceo- 

 late, glabrous, 4-5 mm. long; pedicels filiform, 2 

 mm. long ; style short, stigmas distinct. 



Transition and Canadian Zones; southeastern British Co- 

 lumbia and Washington and Oregon east of the Cascade 

 Mountains, south to west central Nevada and southern Utah 

 and east to Oueliec. Type locality: Missouri River, near 

 Fort Pierre, South Dakota. 



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Fig. 1194. 



5. Salix laevigata Bebb 

 Red or Polished Willow 



Salix laevigata Bebb. Am. Nat. 8: 202. 1874. 



A tree, 5-13 m. in height; branchlets yel- 

 lowish to reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate 

 (often oblanceolate to obovate while ex- 

 panding, with long yellowish hairs beneath, 

 especially at the abruptly-cuspidate apex), 

 7-15 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, acutish to 

 rounded or subcordate at base, acute at the 

 apex, subentire to shallowly serrulate, cori- 

 aceous, glabrous, shining above, glaucous be- 

 neath ; petioles 5-10 mm. long, stout, stipules 

 small, glandular-serrate to dentate ; aments 

 3-10 cm. long, on short (1-3 cm.) leafy 

 peduncles; staminate broad; stamens 4-6; 

 pistillate lax in fruit, 1-1.5 cm. wide; cap- 

 sules ovate, acute, 3.5-5 mm. long, glabrous ; 

 pedicels slender, 1.5-3 mm. long; style and 

 stigmas very small ; scales oblanceolate, ob- 

 tuse or truncate, with 2-4 teeth, yellow. 



Along streams. Upper Sonoran and Transition 

 Zones; from Mendocino and Siskiyou Counties, Cali- 

 fornia, south to the southern border, southern Nevada 

 and western Arizona. Type locality : Santa Cruz, 

 Santa Cruz County, California. 



