138 SILVA 
OF NORTH AMERICA. 
SALICACE. 
Liquidambar, the Black Willow, the Sand-bar Willow, and the Cottonwood, and in the neighborhood of 
St. Louis.? 
The wood of Salix Missouriensis is dark reddish brown, with thin pale sapwood, and is said to be 
very durable in contact with the ground and to be used for fence-posts; it has not been critically 
examined. 
Salix Missouriensis was first collected at Fort Osage on the Missouri River by the German 
naturalist, Maximilian, Prinz von Neuwied,? and was first described by Nils Johan Andersson,’ the 
Swedish salicologist. 
1 In the neighborhood of St. Louis Salix Missouriensis has been 
collected at several places by Dr. N. M. Glatfelter during the 
summer of 1895. 
2 Maximilian Alexander Philipp, Prinz von Neuwied (1782- 
1867), was born at Neuwied and entered the German army, from 
which he retired in 1815 with the rank of major-general to devote 
himself to the study of science. From 1815 to 1817 he traveled in 
the interior of Brazil with the naturalists Neirciss and Sellow, the 
scientific results of this journey appearing in a number of memoirs. 
In 1832 Maximilian visited the United States, landing in Boston 
on the 4th of July. He remained for nearly three years in this 
country and penetrated to the then little known region watered by 
the upper Missouri River with the intention of crossing the Rocky 
Mountains. Failing in this, he retraced his steps and returned to 
Europe, where, assisted by a number of specialists, he published an 
account of his journey. His collections made in North and South 
America are preserved in the museum of his native city. 
Mazimiliana, a genus of Brazilian and West Indian Palms, was 
dedicated to him by Martius. 
8 Nils Johan Andersson (February 21, 1821-March 27, 1880) was 
born in Linképing, and in 1845 graduated as Doctor of Philosophy 
at the University of Upsala, where he resided for several years as 
assistant professor of botany. As naturalist he took part in the 
voyage of the Swedish frigate Eugenie in the years 1851-53, and 
in 1852 made collections of plants in California. In 1855 he became 
demonstrator of botany at the University at Lund, and in the fol- 
lowing year was appointed professor of botany, director of the 
Botanic Garden, and superintendent of the botanical division of 
the Royal Museum. An author of numerous botanical memoirs, 
text-books, and books of travel, Andersson is best known by his 
studies of Salix, upon which he wrote many papers and the classi- 
cal monograph of the genus published in the sixteenth volume of 
the Prodromus of De Candolle. 
EXPLANATION 
Puate CCCCLXXX. 
- A capsule, enlarged. 
OANA wwe 
OF THE PLATE. 
SaLix MissouriEnsis. 
. 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 raceme of fruit, natural size. 
A summer branch, natural size. 
. A winter branch, natural size. 
