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SALICACEAE 



22. Salix barclayi Anderss. Barclay's Willow. Fig. 1211. 



Saliv barclavi Anderss. Oefvers. Svensk. Vet. Akad. 



Foerhandl. 15: 125. 1858 (Nord.-Am. Pil.). 

 Salix conjuncta Bebb, Bot. Gaz. 13: 111. 1888. 



Shrub 1-4 m. high; twigs stoutish, blackish, 

 tomentose to glabrate ; leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 to oval or obovate, acute or cuspidate at the 

 apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, 3-8 cm. 

 long, 1.5-2.5 or more cm. wide, crenate-serru- 

 late, the glandular teeth inflexed, or subentire, 

 thinly tomentose above, especially on the mid- 

 rib and veins, becoming glabrate, glabrous, 

 reticulate and mostly glaucous beneath ; stipules 

 large ; aments stout, on leafy peduncles, 1-3 cm. 

 long ; staminate aments 1-3, and the pistillate 

 2-6 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide; scales fuscous, 

 lanceolate, mostly acute ; thinly to densely vil- 

 lous with long hairs ; capsules glabrous, or 

 sometimes thinly sericeous, greenish, 5-8 mm. 

 long; pedicels 1 mm. long; styles 1-1.5 mm. 

 long; stigmas long. 



Boreal Zones; from Unalaska and southern Yukon southward to Washington, northeastern Oregon, and 

 western Montana, only at higher elevations in the southern part of its range. Type locality: near Cape 

 Greville, Kadiak Island, Alaska. 



23. Salix commutata Bebb. 



Fig. 1212. 



Salix commutata Bebb, Bot. Gaz. 13: 110. 1888. 



Shrub 1-3 m. high, branchlets as in 

 barclayi; leaves elliptical to broadly ob- 

 lanceolate or obovate, 6-8 cm. long, entire 

 or nearly so, cuspidate, densely tomentose 

 on both sides when young, becoming glab- 

 rate in age, not paler beneath ; aments ap- 

 pearing with the leaves, stout, 2-5 cm. 

 long, on leafy peduncles, as in 5. barclayi; 

 scales brownish, oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 woolly ; capsule 5-7 mm. long, glabrous ; 

 pedicels 1 mm. long, usually pubescent ; 

 style 1-1.5 mm. long; stigmas short; stamens 

 2; filaments glabrous, free. 



Mountains, at high elevations, 4,000-7,000 feet, 

 Boreal Zones; southern Alaska and adjacent Yukon 

 to southern Oregon (doubtfully to northern Cali- 

 fornia and Nevada) and east to Alberta, western 

 Montana and northern Wyoming. Type locality: 

 Eagle Creek (or Wallowa) Mountains, Wallowa 

 County, Oregon. 



Salix commutata denudata Bebb, Bot. Gaz. 13: 111. 1888. Leaves becoming glabrate to glabrous, and 

 the margins subserrate. 



With the species, in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Type locality: Eagle Creek Meadows, 

 Wallowa County, Oregon. 



Salix commutata puberula Bebb, Bot. Gaz. 13: 111. 1888. "Capsules thinly puberulous. Transition to 

 5". calif ornica." 



With the species, sparingly, in Oregon and Washington. 



