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woolly, on stalks 1/2 to 1^/4 ^^- lo"g» the styles 1/2 to 1 mm. long. Found 

 at low and middle altitudes. 

 Occurrence. — glacier. 



43. Sitka Willow (Salix sitchensis Sans.). — Erect shrub or small tree 

 6 to 18 feet high, usually growing along streams; branchlets slender, smooth; 

 leaves oblong-reverse-egg-shaped to reverse-lance-shaped, 2 to 5 inches long, 

 silvery-hairy below, the margins not toothed; catkins appearing with the 

 leaves; scales brown, thinly and softly hairy; stamen 1, the filament not hairy, 

 the anthers purple; capsules silky-hairy, the styles I/2 to % mm. long. 



Occurrence. — OLYMPIC, 580 to 5,000 feet; Lake Crescent; Elwha River near mouth 

 of Godkin Creek; Boulder Creek above Olympic Hot Springs; southeast of Mount 

 Anderson; Mount Hopper. MOUNT RAINIER, common. CRATER LAKE, occasional: Llao"s 

 Hallway, yosemite, 6,500 to 8,500 feet: Illilouette Creek. 



44. Coulter Willow (Salix Coulteri Anderss.). — Similar to Sitka 

 willow but the branchlets stoutish, finely hairy; leaves densely white-hairy be- 

 low; scales tawny, densely white-hairy; anthers yellow; capsules silky-hairy. 

 (Syn. S. sitchensis Sans. var. Coulteri Jepson.) 



Occurrence. — OLYMPIC MOUNT rainier, crater LAKE: near west shore of Wizard 

 Island. 



45. Jepson Willow (Salix Jepsoni Schn.). — Shrub 3 to 6 feet high; 

 branchlets smooth, reddish-brown; leaves narrowly reverse-lance-shaped, usually 

 with blunt-pointed tips, 1 to 4i/^ inches long, densely silky-hairy below; cat- 

 kins appearing with the leaves, borne on 

 short leafy stalks; scales brown, densely 

 hairy; stamens 2, the filaments not hairy; 

 capsules densely silky-hairy, on stalks about 

 1 mm. long, the style evident, about 0.7 to 

 1 mm. long. (Syn. S. sitchensis Sans. var. 

 angustijolia Bebb.) 



Occurrence. — yosemite, 6,500 to 9,500 feet: 

 west of Lake Tenaya; Illilouette Creek; Tioga 

 road along Tuolumne River. SEQUOIA: Merten 

 Creek below Merten Meadow, 9,200 feet. 



46. Sageleaf Willow (Salix Can- 

 dida Fluegge), fig. 10. — Shrub 1 to 3 feet 

 high; young twigs white-woolly, the older 

 stems smooth, red; leaves linear to oblong, 

 or narrowly reverse-lance-shaped, II/4 to 3 

 inches long, rather stiffish, densely white- 

 woolly below, thinly so above, the margins 

 often inrolled; catkins appearing with the 

 leaves, borne on short leafy stalks; scales 

 dark, persistent; stamens 2, the filaments 

 smooth, the anthers red; capsules white- 



10. Sageleaf willcw {Salix 

 Candida). 



