WILLOW FAMILY 



39. Salix sitchensis Sanson. 



Sitka \\'illo\v 



Fig. 



1228. 



Sali.v sitchensis Sanson, in Bongard, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. 

 Petersb. VI. 2: 162. 1833. 



Shrub, 2-7 m. high, branchlets slender, dark brown to 

 black, dull to sublustrous, glabrous or rarely pubescent; 

 leaves spatulate-obovate or the upper oblong-obovate, 

 cuneate at base, mostly acute at apex, entire or obscurely 

 crenate, 4-7cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide; dull green (the 

 young pubescent) above, with impressed veins, covered 

 beneath with a short appressed satiny pubescence ; 

 aments coetaneous, long, slender, densely flowered, sub- 

 sessile to short-pedunculate, 2-8 cm. long ; capsules ovate- 

 conical, acute, subsessile, 4-6 mm. long, silky-pubescent; 

 stj'le 0.5-0.7 mm. long ; stigmas short, entire, erect ; 

 stamen 1, filament glabrous, anthers violet (?); scales 

 oblanceolate, brown, thinly villous. 



Along streams, low elevations. Transition and Canadian Zones; 

 southern Alaska to southwestern Oregon (and northern Califor- 

 nia?), east to northeastern Oregon and western Montana. Type 

 lacalitv: "Indian River, near Sitka, Alaska." 



40. Salix coialteri Anderss. 

 Coulter Willow. Fig. 1229. 



Sali.v coiilteri Anderss. in Oefv. Svensk. Vet. Akad. 

 Forh. 15: 119. 1858. 



Salix sitchensis as interpreted by various California au- 

 thors, not Sanson. 



Salix sitchensis forma conlteri Jepson, FI. Calif. 342. 

 1909. 



Shrub, 2-4 m. high ; branchlets stoutish, brown, 

 pubescent to densely tomentose ; leaves oblanceolate 

 to oblong-obovate or obovate (oa same plant), 4-8 

 or 10 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, acute to obtuse at 

 apex, acute to cuneate at base, entire or nearly so, 

 coriaceous, dark green and glabrate (except the 

 midrib ) with impressed veins above, densely wdiite 

 opaque tomentose beneath ; stipules renif orm ; 

 aments coetaneous, slender, subsessile or short-pe- 

 dunculate ; staminate 3-7 cm. long; stamen 1. fila- 

 ment glabrous, anthers yellow ; pistillate 5-10 cm. 

 long; capsules ovoid. 4-4.5 mm. long, subsessile, 

 silvery tomentose; style about 0.5 mm. long; stig- 

 mas short ; scales oblanceolate, tawny, or fuscous 

 at tip, densely white lanose. 



Stream banks, mainly Humid Transition Zone; spar- 

 ingly in Washington (Cowlitz County, Coville; Klickitat 

 County, on the Columbia River, Suksdorf), southward 

 more commonly through Oregon, west of Cascade Moun- 

 tains, and western California to Santa Barbara County. 

 Type locality: "in California," probably Monterey. 



41. Salix scouleriana Barratt. Scouler Willow. Fig. 1230. 



Salix scouleriana Barratt, in Hooker, FI. Bor.-Am. 2: 145. 1839. 



Salix flavescens Nutt. N. A. Svlva 1: 65. 1843, not Host. 1828. 



Salix stagnalis Nutt. N. A. Svlva 1: 66. 1843. 



Salix brachystachys Benth. PI. Hartweg. 336. 1857. 



Salix capreoides Andersson, in Oefv. Svensk. Vet. Akad. For- 



handl. IS: 120. 1858. 

 Salix nuttallii Sarg. Card. &• For. 8: 463. 1895. 



Shrub or small tree, 4-10 m. tall, with dull gray bark ; 

 leaves very variable, mostly oblanceolate to obovate, 

 sometimes oblong or elliptical, mostly obtuse or abruptly 

 acute at the apex and cuneate at base, 3-10 or 12 cm. 

 long, entire to shallowly crenate-serrulate, thick, green 

 and glabrate above, silvery to (in age) rusty-pubescent 

 to glabrous and glaucous and reticulate beneath ; stipules 

 minute to large, ear-shaped, denticulate ; aments preco 

 cious, densely flowered, sessile or the pistillate very short 

 peduncled, 2-5 cm. long; capsules long-beaked, 7-9 mm. 

 long, tomentose; pedicels pubescent. 1.5 mm. long; stig- 

 mas sessile, long; scales obovate, black, long-hairy; sta- 

 mens 2; filaments glabrous, free. 



The commonest willow in our limits, occurring both in dry 

 uplands and swamps. Transition and Canadian Zones. The young 

 leaves and bark have a peculiar fetid odor. An immensely vari- 

 able species especially as to foliage. To attempt to distinguish 

 varieties here would add to confusion. 



Southern Alaska and Yukon, to southern California and New 

 Mexico, up to 10,000 feet. Type locality: "on the Columbia" 

 River. 



