WILLOW FAMILY 



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34. Salix bella Piper. Beautiful Willow. Fig. 1223. 



Sali.v bella Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 399. 1900. 



Shrub, 2-4 m. high ; branchlets brittle, yel- 

 lowish to purplish black, somewhat pruinose, 

 glabrate ; buds large, pruinose; leaves lanceo- 

 late to oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceo- 

 late, acute at apex, rounded at base, 4-7 cm. 

 long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide (sprout leaves up lo 

 12x3.4 cm.), entire or the larger repand- 

 crenate, green and glabrate (at maturity) 

 above, densely clad with opaque silvery tomen- 

 tum beneath, the yellowish midrib glabrous; 

 stipules lanceolate to semi-cordate, acute ; 

 aments precocious, stout, densely flowered, ses- 

 sile or the pistillate short-pedunculate, 3-6 cm. 

 long ; capsule 4.5-5.5 mm. long, gray silky ; 

 pedicel 1 mm. long; style 1-1.5 mm. long; 

 stigmas entire or bifid ; staminate aments 2-3 

 cm. long ; stamens 2 ; filaments glabrous, free ; 

 anthers yellow ; scales oblong-ovate, black, 

 densely lanate. 



Mountains, at elevations of 3,000-5,000 feet, Transition and Canadian Zones; southeastern Wash- 

 ington (Whitman and Spokane Counties); northeastern Oregon (Wallowa County); northern Idaho 

 (Bonner, Kootenai, Shoshone, and Latah Counties); northwestern Montana (Flathead County, Glacier 

 National Park); and Alberta near Banff. Type locality: "6 miles east of Pullman, near Garrison, Whit- 

 man County, Washington." 



35. Salix drummondiana llarratt. Drumniond Willow 



Fig. 1224. 



Sali.v drummondiana Barratt, in Hooker Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. 2: 144. 1838. 



Salix sitchensis (in part) or S. subcoerulea (in 

 part) of various Rocky Mountain authors, not 

 Sanson or Piper. 



Shrub 1-3 (?) m. high, older branchlets 

 rich dark brown, glabrous, lustrous, never 

 pruinose, younger light brown to yellow- 

 ish, pubescent to puberulent ; stipules 

 small ; leaves broadly oblong, elliptical, 

 obovate or oval, 3-6 cm. long, 1-3 cm. 

 wide, coinmonly 3x1.3, 4x1.7, 5x2 or 2.5, 

 and 6x2.2 or 2.5 cm., on sprouts 7-lOx 

 3.5-4 cm., acute to obtusish at base, mostly 

 obtuse and plicate-apiculate at apex, en- 

 tire or sparingly serrulate near apex, revo- 

 lute, green and puberulent to glabrous and 

 somewhat shining, with impressed veins 

 above, densely clad beneath with a some- 

 what lustrous white tomentum partly ob- 

 scuring the raised veins, the midvein yel- 

 lowish and pubescent ; aments precocious 

 (?) or coetaneous, sessile or subsessile, 



dense; 1-3 (?) cm. long; stamens 2, filaments glabrous, free; capsules about 5 mm. long, 



silvery sericeous ; pedicels 0.5-1 mm. long ; styles 0.5-1 mm. long. 



Mountains, elevations of 3,000-7,000 feet, Transition and Canadian Zones; Jasper Park, Alberta, south 

 to northern Idaho (Bonner County) and northwestern Montana (Glacier National Park). Type locality: 

 "marshes and prairies of Rocky Mountains," probably Alberta, Canada. 



