SALICACEZ. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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SALIX LUCIDA. 
Shining Willow. 
LeEavEs lanceolate, long-pointed, coriaceous, dark green and lustrous, their petioles 
glandular. 
Salix lucida, Muehlenberg, Neue Schrift. Gesell. Nat. Fr. 
Berlin, iv. 239, t. 6, £. 7 (1803); Konig & Sims Ann. 
Bot. ii. 66, t. 5, £. 7. — Willdenow, Syec. iv. pt. ii. 667. — 
Persoon, Syn. ii. 600. — Wade, Salices, 91. — Michaux f. 
Hist. Arb. Am. iii. 327, t. 5, £. 3. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 
ii. 615. — Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. v. 57. — Nuttall, 
Gen. ii. 231. — Sprengel, Syst. i. 99. — Forbes, Salict. 
Woburn. 63, t. — Trautvetter, Mém. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. 
St. Pétersbourg, iii. 625. — Loudon, Arb. Brit. iti. 1504, 
f. 1301. — Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 148. — Barratt, Sal. 
Amer. No. 17.— Torrey, Fl. N. Y. ii. 208, t. 119. — 
Emerson, Trees Mass. 267 ; ed. 2, i. 310, t. — Dietrich, 
Syn. v. 418. — Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. Akad. 
Férhandl. xv. 115 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilarter) (excl. var. 
angustifolia lasiandra); Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 54 (excl. 
angustifolia, forma lasiandra) ; Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 
Handl. ser. 4, vi. 30, t. 2, f. 21 (Monographia Salicum) 
(excl. var. angustifolia and var. macrophylla); De Can- 
dolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 205. — Dudley, Bull. Cornell 
University, ii. 87 (Cayuga F1.). — Bebb, Watson & Coul- 
ter Gray’s Man. ed. 6,481. — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 
ii, 215, £. 108. — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 90. 
Salix lucida latifolia, Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. Akad. 
Forhandl. xv. 115 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilarter) (1858) ; 
Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 54; Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 
ser. 4, vi. 31 (Monographia Salicum); De Candolle 
Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 205. 
Salix lucida ovatifolia, Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. Akad. 
Férhandl. xv. 115 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilater) (1858) ; 
Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 54; Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 
ser. 4, vi. 31 (Monographia Salicum); De Candolle Prodr. 
xvi. pt. ii. 205. 
Salix lucida pilosa, Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. Akad. 
Forhandl. xv. 115 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilarter) (1858). 
Salix lucida, var. angustifolia, forma pilosa, Andersson, 
Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 54 (1858). 
Salix lucida rigida, Andersson, Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 
Handl. ser. 4, vi. 32 (Monographia Salicum) (1867). 
Salix lucida tenuis, Andersson, Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 
Handl. ser. 4, vi. 32 (Monographia Salicum) (1867). 
A bushy tree, occasionally twenty or twenty-five feet in height, with a short trunk six or eight 
inches in diameter, and erect branches which form a broad round-topped symmetrical head ; or usually 
smaller and shrubby in habit. The bark of the trunk is thin, dark brown, slightly tinged with red, 
and generally smooth. The branchlets are stout and glabrous, and in their first season are dark orange- 
color and lustrous, becoming darker and more or less tinged with red during their second year. The 
buds are narrowly ovate, acute, light orange-brown, lustrous, and about a quarter of an inch in length. 
The leaves are involute in the bud, lanceolate, gradually or abruptly narrowed and wedge-shaped or 
rounded at the base, acute at the apex with long tapering often falcate points, and finely serrate with 
glandular teeth ; when they unfold they are covered with scattered pale caducous hairs, and at maturity 
are coriaceous, smooth and lustrous, dark green on the upper surface, paler on the lower, from three to 
five inches long and from an inch to an inch and a half wide, with broad yellow midribs raised and 
rounded on the upper side, slender primary veins arcuate and united within the margins and connected 
by reticulate cross veinlets, and stout yellow puberulous petioles grooved above, glandular at the apex 
with several dark or yellow conspicuous glands, and from one quarter to one half of an inch in length; 
the first leaves are oblong, acute and coated with pale hairs, and usually fall when not more than three 
quarters of an inch long. The stipules are nearly semicircular, glandular-serrate, membranaceous, and 
from one eighth to one quarter of an inch broad, and often do not fall until the end of the summer. 
The aments are erect and tomentose, and are borne on stout puberulous peduncles terminal on short 
leafy branchlets whose leaves usually vary from an inch to an inch and a half in length; those of the 
staminate plant are oblong-cylindrical, densely flowered, about an inch long and half an inch broad, 
and those of the pistillate are slender, elongated, from an inch and a half to two inches in length, 
