122 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. SALICACEZ. 
becoming three or four inches long when the fruit ripens, and often persistent until late in the season ; 
the scales are oblong or obovate, rounded, entire, erose or dentate at the apex, light yellow, nearly 
glabrous or coated on the back with pale hairs, often ciliate on the margins, and deciduous before the 
ripening of the fruit. The stamens are usually five in number, with elongated free filaments slightly 
hairy at the very base. The ovary is narrowly cylindrical, elongated, glabrous, long-stalked, and crowned 
with nearly sessile emarginate stigmas. The capsule is cylindrical, about one third of an inch long, 
lustrous, and rigid. 
Salix lucida, which inhabits the banks of streams and swamps, and is very abundant at the north, 
is distributed from Newfoundland’ to the shores of Hudson’s Bay, northwestward to those of Great 
Bear Lake and the valley of the Mackenzie River,’ and westward in British America to the eastern base 
of the Rocky Mountains; it ranges in the United States southward to southern Pennsylvania,’ where 
it is rare, and westward to eastern Nebraska.* 
The wood of Salix lucida has not been examined. 
The large dark green lustrous leaves and showy staminate aments of the Shining Willow make it 
a desirable garden plant. 
1 In August, 1894, Salix lucida was collected on the banks of 2 Provancher, Flore Canadienne, ii. 529.— Macoun, Cat. Can. 
the Exploits River, Newfoundland, by B. L. Robinson and H. Pi. 450. 
Schrenk. 3 Darlington, Fl. Cestr. ed. 3, 280. 
4 Bessey, Rep. Nebraska State Board Agric. 1894, 103. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate CCCCLXXIII. Sazrx rocra. 
. A flowering branch of the staminate tree, natural size. 
. A staminate flower with its scale, front 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 capsule, enlarged. 
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. A sterile branch, natural size. 
