602 



SALICACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



shorter 



Salix pedicellaris Pursh. Bog Willow. Fig. 1479. 



Salix pedicellaris Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 611. 1814. 

 S. myrtilloides pedicellaris Anders. Vet. Acad. Handl. 6 1 : 

 96. 1867. 



An erect slender glabrous shrub, i-3 high, the 

 twigs light brown, terete. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 elliptic-oblanceolate or obovate, obtuse or acute at 

 the apex, entire, mostly narrowed at the base, i'-3' 

 long, 3 "-8" wide, short-petioled, bright green above, 

 pale or glaucous beneath, their margins slightly 

 revolute ; aments expanding with the leaves, leafy at 

 the base, rather dense, i' or less long, or the pistil- 

 late longer in fruit ; bracts persistent, obtuse, slightly 

 villous ; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; style shorter 

 than or equalling the stigmas; gland short; capsule 

 oblong-conic, obtuse, glabrous, 23" long, 2-3 times 

 as long as the filiform pedicel which slightly exceeds 

 the scale. 



In bogs, New Brunswick and Quebec to British Colum- 

 bia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa. April- 

 May. Has been confused with the similar S. myrtil- 

 loides L., of Europe. 



Salix fuscescens Anders., occurring on Mt. Albert, 

 Quebec, in Alaska, and in western Siberia, differs in 'a 

 pedicel and longer-pointed gland, the capsule glabrous or loosely pubescent. 



30. Salix ehlorolepis Fernald. Green-scaled 

 Willow. Fig. 1480. 



5". ehlorolepis Fernald, Rhodora 7' 186. 1905. 



A shrub, 3 high or less, the branches smooth, 

 nearly erect. Leaves oblong to oblong-obovate, en- 

 tire, mostly obtuse at the apex, narrowed or rounded 

 at the base, s"-i2" long, 3 "-5" wide, slightly pubes- 

 cent when young, glabrous when mature, pale be- 

 neath, the petioles 2" -7" long, the stipules decidu- 

 ous ; aments on short leafy branches, 7" long or less, 

 2"-3" thick ; bracts oblong to obovate, glabrous, 

 green, subtruncate. about I?" long; filaments gla- 

 brous ; capsule conic, glabrous, very short-pedicelled, 

 2" long; style slender, twice as long as the stigmas. 



On rocks and in alpine meadows, Mount Albert, 

 Quebec. 



Salix calcicola Fernald & Wiegand, another recently 

 described boreal species with glabrous capsules and long 

 styles, has large terminal and lateral catkins and nearly 

 orbicular leaves ; pale beneath. 



31. Salix reticulata L. Xet-veined Willow. 

 Fig. 1481. 



Sali.v reticulata L. Sp. PL 1018. 1753. 



Salix orbicularis Anders, in DC. Prodr. i6 2 : 300. 1868. 



A procumbent shrub, 3'-io' high, often sending 

 out roots from the twigs, the young shoots 4-sided, 

 purple-green. Leaves elliptic or obovate, thick, ob- 

 tuse, narrowed, rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 slender-petioled, glabrous or somewhat silky-pubes- 

 cent when young, dark green above, not shining, 

 glaucous and strongly reticulate-veined beneath, i'- 

 2' long; petioles 4"-! 2" long, channeled, not glan- 

 dular; leaves obscurely crenulate or entire; stipules 

 oblong, obtuse; aments terminal, long-stalked, dense; 

 bracts obtuse; stamens 2; filaments distinct, pubes- 

 cent at the base; stigmas sessile; capsule ovoid- 

 conic, sessile, tomentose, about 3" long. 



Labrador and Quebec to Alaska, south in the Rocky 

 Mountains to Colorado. Also in northern Europe and 

 Asia. Wrinkled-leaf willow. June. 



