SALICACEA. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
103 
SALIX NIGRA. 
Black Willow. 
LEAVES narrowly lanceolate, long-pointed, often falcate, green on both surfaces, 
glabrous at maturity. 
Salix nigra, Marshall, Arbust. Am. 139 (1785). — Muehlen- 
berg, Neue Schrift. Gesell. Nat. Fr. Berlin, iv. 237, t. 6, 
f.5; Konig & Sims Ann. Bot. ii. 65, t. 5, £. 5. — Willde- 
now, Spec. iv. pt. ii. 657 ; Hnwm.1003; Berl. Baume. ed. 
2, 426. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 599. — Wade, Salices, 33. — 
Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. iv. 501. — Michaux f. Hist. Arb. 
Am. iii. 324, t. 5, £. 1. — Pursh, #7. Am. Sept. ii. 614. — 
Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. v. 61.— Nuttall, Gen. ii. 
231; Sylva, i. 79.— Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 180. — Elliott, 
Sk. ii. 670. — Sprengel, Syst. i. 100. — Forbes, Salict. 
Woburn. 280. — Koch, Sal. Europ. Comm. 17. — Traut- 
vetter, Mém. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, iii. 
614.— Loudon, Arb. Brit. iii. 1529, 1630, f. 152.— 
Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 148.— Barratt, Sal. Amer. 
No. 19. — Torrey, 77. N. Y. ii. 209.— Emerson, Trees 
Mass. 271; ed. 2, i. 307, t.— Dietrich, Syn. v. 419. — 
Seringe, Fl. Jard. ii. 35.— Darlington, FV. Cestr. 
ed. 3, 279.— Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. Akad. For- 
handl. xv. 114 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilarter); Proc. Am. 
Acad. iv. 53; Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. ser. 4, 
vi. 19 (Monographia Salicum) (excl. subvars. amygda- 
loides, longipes, and Wrightii) ; De Candolle Prodr. xvi. 
pt. ii. 200 (excl. vars. B amygdaloides, y longipes, and 8 
Wrightii).— Walpers, Ann. v. 744.— Chapman, 7. 
430.— Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 1860, iii. 
75. — K. Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. i. 513. — Bebb, Brewer & 
Watson Bot. Cal. ii. 83; Bot. Gazette, xvi. 102; Watson 
& Coulter Gray’s Man. ed. 6, 480. — Ridgway, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. v. 86. — Hemsley, Bot. Biol. Am. Cent. 
iii. 180. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census 
U. S. ix. 165. — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. ii. 225, f. 
111. — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 90. — Coulter, Contrib. 
U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 419 (Man. Pl. W. Texas). — 
Greene, Man. Bot. Bay Region, 299. 
Salix pentandra?, Walter, #2. Car. 243 (not Linnzus) 
(1788). 
Salix Caroliniana, Michaux, F7. Bor.-Am. ii. 226 (1803). — 
Poiret, Lam. Dict. vi. 662. 
Salix ligustrina, Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii. 326, t. 5, 
f. 2 (1813). — Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. v. 61. 
Salix Houstoniana, Pursh, F/. Am. Sept. ii. 614 (1814). — 
Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. v. 68.— Sprengel, Syst. i. 
107. — Elliott, Sk. ii. 670. — Trautvetter, Wém. Sav. Etr. 
Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, iii. 615.— Forbes, Salict. 
Woburn. 21, t. 
? Salix ambigua, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 617 (1814).— 
Forbes, Salict. Woburn. 282. 
Salix flavo-virens, Hornemann, Cat. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. 
ii. 11 (1819). 
? Salix virgata, Forbes, Salict. Woburn. 23, t. (1829). 
? Salix longipes pubescens, Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. 
Akad. Férhandl. xv. 114 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilarter) 
(1858) ; Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 53. 
Salix nigra, a angustifolia, 8 longifolia, Andersson, 
Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. ser. 4, vi. 20 (Mono- 
graphia Salicum) (1867). 
Salix nigra, b latifolia, u brevijulis, Andersson, Svensk. 
Vetensk. Akad. Handl. ser. 4, vi. 21 (Monographia Sa- 
licum) (1867). 
Salix nigra, b latifolia, 8 longijulis, Andersson, Svensk. 
Vetensk. Akad. Handl. ser. 4, vi. 21 (Monographia Sali- 
cum) (1867). 
Salix nigra, b latifolia, y brevifolia, Andersson, Svensk. 
Vetensk. Akad. Handl. ser. 4, vi. 21 (Monographia Sali- 
cum) (1867). 
Salix nigra, b latifolia, y brevifolia testacea, Anders. 
son, Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. ser. 4, vi. 21 (Mono- 
graphia Salicum) (1867). 
Salix nigra, subspec. marginata, Andersson, Svensk. Vet- 
ensk. Akad. Hand. ser. 4, vi. 21 (Monographia Salicum) 
(1867) ; De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 201. 
? Salix nigra, subspec. longipes gongylocarpa, Anders- 
son, Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Hand. ser. 4, vi. 22 (Mono- 
graphia Salicum) (1867); De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. 
ii. 201. 
Salix nigra, B latifolia, Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. ii. 226 
(1892). 
A tree, occasionally one hundred and twenty feet in height, with a trunk three feet in diameter, 
and stout spreading rather upright branches which form a broad and somewhat irregular but handsome 
open head ; or usually thirty or forty feet high, with trunks which are often clustered. The bark of the 
trunk varies from an inch to an inch and a quarter in thickness and is dark brown or nearly black, or 
