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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
SALICACE. 
Tennessee, Horse-shoe Lake near Venice, Illinois,’ southern Missouri,’ and in a few localities in the 
Indian Territory. 
The wood of Salix Wardi is dark red-brown, with thin nearly white sapwood. 
examined scientifically. 
It has not been 
Salix Wardi was first made known by Mr. Lester F. Ward,’ who found it in 1876 in the neigh- 
borhood of the city of Washington. 
1 Salix Wardi has been found in 1895 by Dr. N. M. Glatfelter 
of St. Louis on the banks of Horse-shoe Lake, five miles west of 
Venice, Illinois, and eight miles northeast of St. Louis. It has also 
been observed by him at Bonterre, Pilot Knob, and Irondale, Mis- 
souri ; and in 1894 it was collected in the vicinity of Sapulpa and 
of Verdigris in the Indian Territory, by Mr. B. F. Bush. 
2 In southwestern Missouri, where it is the only representative of 
the Black Willows, and is very abundant, Salix Wardi is usually a 
bush less than fifteen feet in height, and is confined to the rocky 
banks of streams and the beds of stony brooks that are usually dry 
during a large part of the year. 
3 Lester Frank Ward, the youngest of ten children, was born in 
Joliet, Illinois, on June 18, 1841, his father being a native of 
New Hampshire, and his mother, whose maiden name was Rolph, 
a member of the Loomis family of western New York. His boy- 
hood was spent on his father’s farm and in his wheelwright shop ; 
but in 1859 he went to Pennsylvania to obtain an education. In 
1862 he enlisted as a private in the 141st Regiment of Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and served in the field until the battle of Chancellors- 
ville, in which he was severely wounded. At the close of the war 
Mr. Ward obtained a clerkship in one of the government offices at 
Washington, and later was made librarian of the United States 
Bureau of Statistics, but resigned this position in 1881 to become a 
member of the staff of the Geological Survey of the United States, 
with which he is still connected. In 1881 he published, in Bulletin 
No. 22 of the United States National Museum, a guide to the flora 
of Washington and its vicinity, but since his connection with the Sur- 
vey has occupied himself with fossil botany, upon which he has pub- 
lished important memoirs in the 5th, 6th, 8th, 15th, and 16th Annual 
Reports, and in Bulletin No. 37, devoted to a description of the 
Mr. Ward prepared the botanical 
definitions for The Century Dictionary, beginning with the letter H, 
Types of the Laramie Flora. 
and has contributed largely to scientific and popular journals. He 
is the author of Dynamic Sociology and the Psychic Factors of Civ- 
ilization. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate CCCCLXIV. Sarrx Warpt. 
. A capsule, enlarged. 
OHANATP WDE 
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A flowering branch of the staminate tree, natural size. 
A staminate flower with its scale, front view, enlarged. 
A flower-scale, back view, enlarged. 
A flowering branch of the pistillate tree, natural size. 
. A pistillate flower with its scale, front view, enlarged. 
A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. A sterile branch, natural size. 
. A winter branchlet, natural size. 
- An axillary bud and leaf-scar, enlarged. 
