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SALICACEAE 



32. Salix lemmoni Bebb. Lemmon's Willow. Fig. 1221. 



Salix lemmoni Bebb, Willows Calif, (repr. 

 S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 88.) 1879. 



5a!ix austinae Bebb (in part), ibid. 2: 88. 

 Salix lemmoni austinae (Bebb) Schneider, 

 Jour. Arnold Arb. 2: 79. 1920. 



Shrub 1-5 m high, young branches 

 thinly silky to glabrous, brownish- 

 black, shining, sometimes thinly prui- 

 nose ; leaves stipulate, lanceolate, ob- 

 lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, acute, 4-9 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. 

 wide, firm, entire or sparsely denti- 

 culate, more or less silky when young, 

 becoming glabrous, deep green and 

 shining above, glabrescent and glau- 

 cescent beneath at maturity; amenis 

 coetaneous, short-leafy-pedunculate ; 

 staminate cylindric, 1-3 cm. long ; 

 stamens 2, filaments usually free, 

 pilose ; pistillate 2-4 cm. long, 

 1.5-2 cm. wide; capsule 6-8 mm. long, 

 silky tomentose ; pedicel 1.5-2 mm. 



long ; style 0.5-0.8 mm. long ; stigmas short, bifid ; scales narrowly obovate, obtuse, thinly 



silky-pilose, dark brown to black. 



Mountains, 6.000-10,000 feet. Boreal Zones; southwest Oregon (Jackson and Klamath Counties), soutk 

 to San Bernardino County, California, east to Ormsby and Washoe Counties, Nevada, and northeastern 

 Oregon. Type locality: "Sierra County," California. 



33. Salix subcoerulea Piper. Bluish Willow. 



Fig. 



1222. 



Salix siibcoeriiiea Piper, in Bull. Torrev Club 27: 400. 



1900. 

 Salix covillei Eastwood, Zoe 5: 80. 1900. 

 Salix paclinofihora Rydberg, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 



403. 1904. 

 Sali.v pellita of western ai:thors, not Anderss. 



Shrub 1-3 m. high ; twigs glabrous, brown 

 to blackish, sublustrous, pruinose ; leaves nar- 

 rowly to broadly oblong-lanceolate or oblanceo- 

 late. acute. or acuminate at both ends, 3-5 or 

 7 cm. long, 0.8-2.5 cm. wide, entire or slightly 

 crenulate, green and sparsely pubescent above, 

 densely covered with a short silvery pubescence 

 beneath ; midveins beneath conspicuous, yellow- 

 ish, glabrate ; stipules none, or occasional on 

 vigorous shoots ; aments coetaneous, sessile or 

 very short-pedunculate, 1-4 cm. long, densely 

 flowered; capsules ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 subsessile or short (1 mm.)-pediceled. 3.5-5 

 mm. long, silvery sericeous; styles 1-1.5 mm. 

 long, yellowish or brown ; stigmas 0.2-0.5 mm., 

 entire; stamens 2, filaments glabrous, free; 

 scales oblong, ovate or obovate, acute or ob- 

 tuse, brown to black, thinly pilose. 







Mountains 3,000-10,000 feet. Boreal Zones; eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, east to south- 

 ern Alberta and south to southeastern Utah, and northern New Mexico, and locally in Fresno and Tulare 

 Counties, California. Type Locality: "Powder River Mountains, in wet meadows near the head of Eagle 

 Creek," Wallowa County, Oregon. 



