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SALICACEAE 



36. Salix jepsoni Schneider 



37. Salix brewed Bebb. 

 Brewer's Willow. Fig. 1226. 



Salir hreweri Bebb, Willows Calif, (repr. S. Wats. 

 Bot. Calif. 2: 89.) 1879. 



Shrub (probably low) ; branchlets slender, 

 dark brown, glabrous or the younger pu- 

 bescent; stipules small, ovate-lanceolate, or 

 wanting; leaves oblong or linear-lanceolate 

 to narrowly lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 3-6 cm. long; 5-10 mm. wide, common size 

 5 cm. by 8 mm., entire, dull green and spar- 

 ingly tomentose (on midrib especially) above, 

 gray tomentose and distinctly reticulate with 

 raised veins beneath ; aments precocious or 

 coetaneous, subsessile, linear-cylindric ; stami- 

 nate 1.5-2 cm. long. 0.5 cm. wide; stamens 

 2, filaments free, glabrous or glabrate ; pistil- 

 late 2-3.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide; capsules ses- 

 sile, about 5 mm. long, short-tomentose ; 

 style 1 mm. long, often bifid; stigmas short, 

 bifid or entire; scales oblanceolate, yellowish, 

 or reddish at apex, pilose ; gland linear, about 

 1 mm. long. 



Upper Sonoran Zone; inner Coast Ranges, San 

 Benito, Santa Clara, Napa, Lake, and Colusa Coun- 

 ties, California. Tvpe locality: "on San ( s-'os 

 Mountain, in a dry ravine, at 3,500 feet altitude, 

 San Benito County, California. 



Jepson's Willow. Fig. 1225. 



Salix jepsoni Schneider, Journ. Arnold Arb. 1 -. 

 89. 1919. 



Shrub, probably 1-2 m. high; branch- 

 lets chestnut to dark purple, shining, the 

 youngest pubescent, not pruinose ; leaves 

 narrowly oblanceolate, from a cuneate 

 base, obtuse or acute at apex, 3-6 or 7 

 cm. long, 0.6-1.2 cm. wide (sprout leaves 

 to 9x2 cm ), firm, entire, margins some- 

 what revolute, sparsely short-silky above, 

 densely silky tomentose beneath, includ- 

 ing raised yellow midvein ; aments sub- 

 precocious or coetaneous, masculine sub- 

 sessile, 1-2 cm. long, feminine 2-A cm. 

 long, on bracted peduncles 0.5-2 cm. 

 long; scales oblong-obovate, pale brown, 

 densely pilose ; stamens 2 ; filaments glab- 

 rous, free or sometimes united at base, 

 or for one-half their length; capsule 

 4.5-5.5 inm. long, densely silky-pubes- 

 cent; pedicel 1-1.3 mm. long; style 0.7- 

 1 mm. long; stigmas short. 



High elevations, 7,000-10,000 feet, Boreal 

 Zone; in the central Sierra Nevada (Placer 

 to Madera Counties), California. Type locality: 

 "high mountains near Donner Pass, Placer 

 County, California." 



38. Salix delnortensis Schneider. 

 Del Norte Willow. Fig. 1227. 



Salix delnortensis Schneider, Jour. Arnold Arb. 1: 96. 



1919. 



Shrub, probably as 5. breiucri, young branches 

 usually gray-tomentose ; leaves obovate-oblong to 

 obova'te or broadly obovate, cuneate at base, ob- 

 tuse or rounded or abruptly apiculate at apex, 

 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, entire, tomentose 

 to glabrescent and dull .green above, densely 

 tomentose and rugose-reticulate beneath ; aments 

 coetaneous, subpedunculate ; masculine 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 long, 0.5-0.7 cm. wide; stamens 2, filaments free, 

 glabrous; anthers violet (?); pistillate aments 

 3-5 cm. long 0.8-1 cm. wide, slender; capsule 5.5 

 mm. long, pilose-tomentose ; style 1 mm. long, 

 entire or subbifiid ; stigmas short, bifid ; scales ob- 

 long, obtuse, light brown (reddish in maturity?), 

 denselv silkv-pilose ; gland narrowly conic, 0.6 

 mm. long. "(Description after Schneider; speci- 

 mens not seen). 



Coast Range, Humid Transition Zone; Del Norte 

 County, California. Type locality: "Gasquets, JJel Norte 

 County, California." 



