Order 122.— SALIC ACEvE. 655 



Shrub or small tree, 4 to 15f high, with long, slender, smooth, purplo or yel- 

 lowish green twigs, tough and elastic, used in basket making. (3. rosmarini- 

 ftlia Ph.) 

 (3. fuscata. Lvs. obovate-laneeolate, acuto; aments of a leaden huo from the 

 thinner hairs. 



9 S. viminalis L. Basket Osiep.. Lvs. linear-lanceolate, very long, acuminate, 

 Bubeutire, silky-canescent beneath ; stip. minute ; branches virgate ; ameuts preco- 

 cious; scales roundish, very hairy ; filaments distinct; ova. sessile, ovoid; sty. 

 filiform; stig. undivided, acute. — Wet meadows and margins of rivers. Sts. 10 to 

 12f high, with long, straight, slender, and flexible branches. Lvs. often a foot in 

 length, narrow, covered with a snow-white pubescence beneath. Aments very 

 liairy. May. § Eur. 



3.0 S. purpurea L Purple "Willow. Lvs. partly opposite, obovate-lanceolate, 

 serrulate above, very smooth, narrowed at the base, aments cylindrical, with leafy 

 bracts at base ; scales orbicular, black; filaments united into 1, with 2 anthers; 

 ovary sessile, ovate-elliptic; sty. very short; stig. emarginate. — Low grounds, 

 river banks, and cultivated liko the last for basket-making. Shrub 6 to lOf 

 high. Twigs very long, slender and tough, covered with a smooth, olive-colored 

 bark, 



U S. rostrata Richardson. Branches erect, straight, pubescent, at length 

 smooth; ks. broadly or obovate-lanceolate, acute, subentire, at length coriaceous, 

 6mooth above, glaucous-pubescent beneath ; stip. semicordate, dentate ; aments 

 short, cylindric, dense, the fertile ones becoming very long and looso ; scales ob- 

 long, membranous, hairy at the apex; ova. narrow-lanceolate, silky, long-acumi- 

 nate, on very long pedicels; sty. very short; stig. lobed, the lobes bifid or entire. 

 — Shrub or small tree S — lOf high. Lark of tho trunk dark-colored, of tbo 

 branches yellow. 



12 S. iongifolia MuhL Long-leaved Willow. Lvs. linear, acuminate at each 

 end, elongated, remotely toothed, smooth, nearly of tho samo color on both sides; 

 stip. lanceolate, dentate; aments tomentous, pedunculate; sta. 2; scales flat, re- 

 tuse ; ovary short-stalked ; fit. bearded at base, twice longer than tho scales. — 

 River banks from the Conn, and Ohio to Oregon and Brit Am. It possesses a 

 remarkable power of rooting, extending itself and binding tho looso sands to- 

 gether. Stems about 2f high, with brown branches and white branchlets. 



13 S. phylicifolia L Mountain* Willow. Lvs. ovate or lanceolate, remotely 

 repand-serrate, glabrous, glaucous beneath; stip. stmicordate, oblique at apex; 

 mmsnts bracteate, $ sessile; cops, pedicellate, conical-elongated, somewhat silky; 

 sty. long. — White Mts. A handsome, low shrub, spreading, with broad-elliptical, 

 very smooth leaves, tho margins repand-serrate. 



14 S. rapens L. Creeping Willow. Low, creeping ; lvs. obovate or Ictnce-obo- 

 vate, acutish or bluntly acuminate, obscurely crtnate-toolhed, glabrous and shining 

 above, silky-pubescent, at length glabrous and glaucous beneath, reticulate both 

 sides; stip. oblong, very caducous.; aments short, few-flowered, very silky; stam. 

 2 ; ovary silky, pedicellate. — Alpine summits White Mts. and northward. St3. a 

 few inches above ground. Lvs. 8 to 12" by 4 to G", petioles 3 to 4", clothod 

 with silky pubescence when 3'oung, very smooth when old. 



15 S. pedicillaris Ph. Lvs. elliptic-oblanceolate, acuto or obtuse, rather obtuso 

 at base, entire, both sides glabrous, beneath slightly glaucous and roticulato- 

 vein:d;' aments pedunculato: caps, ovate-conic, glabrous, long-pedicellate; scales 

 short, obtuse, a little hairy; sty. very short; lobes cf the stigma cleft. — Mountain 

 swamps, N. Eng. and N. Y. A low and cltgant shrub, with rather a virgate 

 habit, remarkable for its entiro smoothness. On mountains it is moro straggling. 

 Lvs. light, yellowish green, 1 to 2' long, very entire. (3. myrtilloides Tucker.) 



16. S. Uva-ursi Ph. Lvs. elliptical cr obovate, obtuse at each end, glandular- 

 denticulate, smooth above, glaucous-smoothish beneath, silky-villous when young; 

 aments pedunculate, cylindric, dense ; caps, ovate-conic, briefly pedicellate, glabrous- 

 scales obovate, black, silky; stam. one; stig. bifid,, lobes at length cleft. — White 

 Mts. N. 1L A low or prostrate shrub. Lvs. 3 to 5" by 2 to 3". Aments 6". 



17 S. herbacea L. Herb Willow. Arctic Willow. Dwarf; lvs. orbicular, 

 cordate, ser) ate, glabrous, veiny; ament3 fow-ilowered, sessile ; scales small, glab- 



