430 SALICACEJX. (WILLOW FAMILY.) 
* Aments small, sessile: ovary silky: stamens 2. — Low canescent shrubs, with small 
leaves. Aments developed before the leaves. f 
1. S. tristis, Ait. Leaves very numerous, lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 
entire or wavy, at least on the margins, tapering at the base, nearly sessile, cov- 
ered with a grayish down, at length smoothish above ; stipules minute, caducous ; 
flowering aments small, globular; the oval bracts hairy on the margins ; style 
short; ovary slender, long-beaked. — Dry barren soil, in the upper districts of 
Georgia, and northward. March and April. — Shrub 19-29 high. Leaves 
1! - 2! long. z 
2. S. humilis, Marshall. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse or abruptly pointed, 
narrowed into a petiole, smoothish above, grayish-pubescent beneath, often 
slightly serrate near the sammit; stipules small, semi-cordate or lunate, entire or 
toothed ; flowering aments ovoid or oblong, often drooping, with the lanceolate 
. bracts villous ; style conspicuous; ovary slender. (S. conifera, Muhl. S. Muh- 
lenbergiana, Willd.) — Barren soil in the upper districts, and northward. March. 
— Shrub 29 — 4° high, often bearing cone-like excrescences. Vert 
3. S. rosmarinifolia, L. Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly entire, flat, 
pubescent above, silky beneath ; ovary lanceolate, villous; styles elongated. — 
Swamps and low ground, Florida? and northward.— Shrub 2°-4° high. 
Branches silky. Leaves 1/-2! long. Stipules subulate. Bracts oblong, obtuse, 
hairy on the margins. py 
* * Aments large, cylindrical, sessile, silky-villous, developed before the leaves : enne 
woolly.— Large shrubs. : Ed 
4. S. discolor, Muhl.  Branchlets pubescent; leaves oblong, petioled, 
acute at each end, serrate in the middle, smooth and shining above, £ 
beneath; stipules semi-lunar, toothed; aments woolly, with glossy hairs ; 
mens 2; ovary white-silky, sessile. — Low ground, Carolina, Pursh, and 
ward. April. —Shrub 89—109 High. Leaves 2/-4' long. Aments I'a 
33 Aments large, cylindrical, on leafy peduncles or branchlets, appearing wilh 
leaves: ovaries smooth, stalked. 
sta- 
5. S. Floridana, n. sp. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, smooth dim: 
glaucous beneath, finely serrate, rounded at the base,-the petioles pubescent 
stipules small, caducous ; fruiting ament oblong, dense ; capsule ovate-lanceolate, 
smooth. — Rocky banks, West Florida, fruiting in April. — Shrub 8°- 12° high. 
Leaves thin, 2/-3/ long. Fruiting aments 2! — 3! long, 1' in diameter, eV * 
__ in the copious wool of the seeds. Flowers not seen. 
: 6. S. nigra, Marshall. Leaves lanceolate, acute at each end, serrate, pet* ; 
„oled, pubescent when young, becoming smoothish and green on both p» 
stipules small and caducous, or sometimes lunate, toothed, and pei 
aments elongated, the fertile ones slender, loose-flowered ; bracts deciduous; * 
mens 3-6, hairy below ; capsule ovate, acuminate, pointed by the conspicuo 
style. (S. Houstoniana, P. ) — Swamps and muddy banks of rivers, Flos 
