504 SALICACEAE. 
29. Salix balsamifera (Hook.) Barratt. Balsam Willow. (Fig. 1201.) 
Salix cordata var. balsamifera Hook. F1. Bor. Am. 
2: 149. 1839. 
Salix balsamifera Barratt; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. loc. 
cit. As synonym. 1839. 
A shrub, 4°-10° high, the twigs glabrous, shin- 
ing, the youngest foliage pubescent. Mature 
leaves elliptic, ovate-oval or obovate, thin, gla- 
brous, acute or some of them obtuse at the apex, 
rounded or subcordate at the base, dark green 
above, glaucous and prominently reticulate-veined 
beneath, 2’-3/ long, 1’-114’ wide) slightly crenu- 
late-serrulate, the minute teeth glandular; stipules 
minute or none; petioles slender, 3//-6’’ long; 
aments expanding with the leaves, leafy-bracted at 
the base, cylindric, the staminate dense, about 1’ 
long, the pistillate rather loose, 2’-3/ long in fruit; 
scales villous, persistent; stamens 2; filaments gla- 
‘brous; style almost none; capsules very narrow, 
acute, glabrous, 2’’-2%’’ long, slender-pedicelled. 
In swamps, Labrador to Manitoba, south to Maine, 
Ontario and Minnesota, May. 
30. Salix Barclayi Anders. Barclay’s Willow. (Fig. 1202.) 
»S. Barclayi Anders, Ofv. Handl. Vet. Akad. 1858: 125. 1858. 
A low shrub, with dark brown glabrous twigs, the 
young shoots pubescent. Leaves obovate, oval, or 
oval-lanceolate, short-pointed at the apex, serrulate, 
floccose-pubescent when young, when mature gla- 
brous, bright green above, pale beneath, 1/-2/ long, 
44/-1/ wide; petioles 1/’-2’’ long; stipules ovate, acute, 
deciduous; aments unfolding with the leaves, borne 
at the ends of short branches, dense, spreading or 
erect, the staminate 1’ long, the pistillate 2’—3’ long 
in fruit; scales persistent, slightly villous; stamens 2; 
filaments distinct; capsule narrowly conic, glabrous, 
acute, 3/’ long; style longer than the stigmas. 
Northwestern arctic America. Summer. 
Salix Barclayi latiuscula Anders. in DC. Prodr. 16: Part 2, 
J) Y (ae 
255. 1868. BY 
Leaves oval or obovate, subcordate at the base; stip- SS 
ules cordate. Newfoundland (according to Andersson ). y, 
31. Salix adenophylla Hook. Furry Willow. (Fig. 1203.) 
Ps Salia adenophylla Hook. F1. Bor. Am, 2;146. 1839. 
A straggling shrub, 3°-S° high, the twigs, peti- 
oles, stipules and leaves densely silky-tomentose, 
the silky hairs falling away from the leaves when 
old. Leaves ovate, acute or short-acuminate, or 
the lower obtuse at the apex, cordate or rounded 
jj at the base, finely serrulate with gland-tipped 
Ay Yo teeth, 1/-2’ long, 8’/-14’ wide; petioles stout, 
14//-3’’ long, dilated at the base; stipules ovate- 
cordate, obtuse, serrulate, persistent; aments 
leafy-bracted at the base, dense, expanding with 
the leaves, the staminate about 1’ long, the pis- 
tillate 14’-4/ long in fruit; scales villous, persist- 
ent; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; style fili- 
form, longer than the stigmas; capsule sessile or 
very nearly so, ovoid-conic, acute, 1 '4’’-2’’ long. 
On lake and river shores, Labrador to Ontario, 
Pennsylvania and Michigan. Hybridizes with S, 
cordata, April-May. 
