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6. Sales .axea L. European White Willow. Map 739. This is a Euro- 

 pean species that, no doubt, has been planted more or less throughout the 



ite. I have found it as an escape only a few times although it has been 

 reported from 12 counties - -e in which I have found it 



Nat. of Eu. 



6a. Salix alba var. vitellina (L.) Stokes. Golden Willow. This 

 willow has been reported from 10 counties, mostly by our early auth 

 who were not careful to distinguish between escaped and planted -..- 

 I believe it is far more common than our white willow but I have seen 

 it only a few times where I would consider it as an escape. I doubt that 

 it ever escapes by seed but only by means of branchlets which have been 

 broken off and carried down streams and deposited where they are 

 covered with mud. 



Nat. of Eu. 



7. Salix feagilis L. Beittle Willow. Map 740. This European 

 willow has been freely planted throughout the state and is found more 

 commonly as an escape, I believe, because the branchlets are very easily 

 broken off by wind and ice and scattered where they are covered with 

 soil and easily propagate. 



I recall the ingenious use of this species by a farmer in Wayne County 

 who, about 1857, had planted several rows of the trees and spaced them 

 close and in zigzag rows across a creek bottom. When I asked why 

 he so planted them he told me that it was to catch the rails and wheat 

 that came down the stream during floods. 



Nat. of Eu. 



8. Salix interior Rowlee. (Salix longifolia Muhl.) Longleaf Willow. 

 Sandbar Wdllo'-v. Map 741. Found throughout the state along strear 

 especially on gravelly bars, about lakes, and along ditches. It usually 

 forms dense colonies and often covers large areas. 



Eastern Que. to Man., southw. in the interior to Va.. Tenn., and Te 

 generally absent from N. E. and the Coastal Plain. 



