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length only on the petioles and veins beneath; fruiting aments oblong; lobes of 
the bracts widely spreading, acute, smooth. — Cool shady banks in the upper 
parts of Georgia, and northward. March.—A middle-sized tree, with dark 
brown rugged bark, and close and fine-grained wood. Young twigs spicy and 
aromatic. 
2. ALNUS, Tourn. Axper, 
Sterile aments elongated, drooping. Bracts peltate, 5-bracteolate, 1 — 3-flow- 
ered. Calyx 4-parted or (in No. 2) scale-like. Stamens 4: anthers 2-celled. 
Fertile aments short, erect. Bracts fleshy, 2-flowered. Calyx of four minute 
scales, adherent to the bracts. Bracts of the fruiting ament woody, persistent. 
Nut angled or winged. — Shrubs or small trees. Leaves petioled, serrate, the 
stalked buds covered with a single scale. Fertile aments racemed. 
l. A. serrulata, Ait. Leaves obovate, obtuse or abruptly pointed, serru- 
late, commonly pubescent beneath, acute at the base, short-petioled ; stipules ` 
oval, obtuse ; fruiting aments ovoid, short-peduncled; fruit ovate, wingless. — 
Banks of streams, Florida, and northward. Jan. - March. — Shrub 3°-12° 
high. Leaves 2!—4! long, thickish, and partly persistent at its southern limits. 
Calyx of the sterile flowers 4-parted. 
2. A, viridis, DC. Leaves oval, rounded at both ends, slightly oblique at 
the base, finely and sharply serrate, softly pubescent on the lower surface, or only 
on the veins and petiole ; stipules ovate; calyx of the sterile flowers scale-like ; 
fruiting aments ovoid, long-peduncled ; fruit winged. High mountains of North 
Carolina, and northward. — — A low much branched shrub. Leaves 
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ORDER 131. SALICACEZE. (WirnLow Famtry.) 
Trees or shrubs, with soft wood, alternate simple stipulate leaves, and 
 diæcioùs amentaceous flowers, destitute of calyx and corolla, each solitary 
in the axil of a simple bract. Stamens 2— many. Ovary 1-celled or im- 
perfectly 2-celled, with numerous erect anatropous ovules in each cell. 
Styles 2, very short, more or less united: stigmas 2-lobed. Fruit a 
 *-valved many-seeded capsule. Seeds minute, clothed with long silky 
. hairs. Albumen none. Cotyledons elliptical flattened. Radicle point- 
ing downward. : 
l. SALIX, Toum. Wirrow. 
.. Bracts of the aments entire. Flowers each with 1-2 small glands. Stamens 
2-6, free, or their filaments cohering at the base. Stigmas short, 2-lobed. — 
. Leaves commonly narrow, short-petioled. Stipules scale-like and deciduous, 
T leafy and persistent. Buds Miu c oo FRA Amnis; mostly 
