502 SALICACEAE. 
23. Salix phylicifolia L. Tea-leaved 
Willow. (Fig. 1195.) 
Salix phylicifolia I. Sp. Pl. 1016. 1753. 
A shrub 1°-10° high, much branched, the twigs 
glabrous, dark purple-green, sometimes glaucous. 
Leaves oblong, lanceolate or elliptic, acute or ob- 
tuse at the apex, minutely repand-crenulate or 
entire, narrowed at the base, bright green and 
shining above, pale and glaucous beneath, 114/—3/ 
long, %4’-1’ wide; petioles 3/’-S’’ long; stipules 
minute, fugacious, or wanting; aments sessile, 
sparingly leafy-bracted at the base, dense, oblong- 
cylindric, the staminate 1/ or less long, the pistil- 
late 1-2’ long in fruit; scales villous, persistent; 
stamens 2; filaments glabrous; style rather longer 
than the stigmas; capsule conic, acute, pubescent 
or tomentose, 214’ long, much longer than its. 
pedicel. 
Swamps, Labrador to Manitoba and the White Moun- 
tains of New Hampshire. Alsoin Europe. Summer. 
24. Salix Brownii Bebb. Robert Brown’s Willow. (Fig. 1196.) 
Salix arctica R. Br. Ross’ Voy. exliv. 1819. Not Pall. 
Salix Brownti Bebb, Coult. Bot. Gaz. 14: 115. 1889. 
A low, much branched shrub, the twigs 4- 
angled, slender. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 
glabrous or sometimes ciliolate, acute or the lower 
obtuse at the apex, entire or rarely with a few 
minute distant teeth, narrowed at the base, 
short-petioled, 1/-2’ long, 3/’-8’” wide, remaining 
green in drying, the lower surface pale or glaucous, 
the margins not revolute; petioles only 1//—3// 
long; stipules narrow, deciduous; aments borne 
on short leafy branches, the pistillate 1/-214’ long 
in fruit; scales villous, persistent; obovate, ob- 
tuse, green or black-tipped; stamens 2; filaments 
glabrous; style filiform, much longer than the 
stigmas; capsule ovoid-conic, tomentose, short- 
pedicelled, acute, about 114’ long. 
Labrador to Alaska, south to Quebec, and in the 
Rocky Mountains to Colorado. Summer. 
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25. Salix arctica Pall. Arctic Willow. 
Ground Willow. (Fig. 1197.) 
Salia arctica Pall. Fl. Ross. 1: Part 2, 86. 1788. 
A low branching shrub, the twigs terete or 
nearly so. Leaves glabrous, elliptic or broadly 
obovate, entire, obtuse and usually rounded at 
the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, long- 
petioled, pale and glaucous beneath, 1/—2/ long, 
14/-1}4/ wide; petioles slender, %/-114’ long; 
aments borne at the ends of short leafy branches, 
very dense, the pistillate 1/-2’ long in fruit; scales 
dark purple, obovate, obtuse, densely white-vil- 
lous, persistent; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; 
style filiform, longer than the stigmas; capsule 
conic, villous, very short-pedicelled. 
Arctic America and Asia. Summer. 
