SALICACE. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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SALIX SITCHENSIS. 
Willow. 
LEAVES oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, usually acute or acuminate, coated below 
with lustrous silky white tomentum. 
Salix Sitchensis, Bongard, Mém. Phys. et Nat. Pt. 2, Acad. 
Sci. St. Pétersbourg, ii. 162 (Vég. Sitcha.) (1831). — Le- 
debour, Fl. Ross. iii. 609. — Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. 
Akad. Férhandl. xv. 126 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilarter) ; Proc. 
Am. Acad. iv. 66; Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Hand. ser. 4. 
vi. 106, f. 59 (Monographia Salicum) (? excl. subspec. 
Ajanensis) (1867); De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 233 
(? excl. y Ajanensis).— Walpers, Ann. v. 752.— Bebb, 
Brewer & Watson Bot. Cal. ii. 87 (excl. var. angustifolia) ; 
Bot. Gazette, vii. 25; xvi. 105. — Sargent, Forest Trees 
NN. Am. 10th Census U. S§. ix. 171.— Macoun, Cat. Can. 
Pl. 454. — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. ii. 266, £. 127. — 
Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 103. — Greene, Man. Bot. Bay 
Salix Scouleriana, Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 145 (in part) 
(1839). 
Salix cuneata, Nuttall, Sylva, i. 66 (1842). 
Salix Coulteri, Andersson, Ofvers. Vetensk. Akad. For- 
handl. xv. 119 (Bidr. Nordam. Pilarter) (not Tucker- 
man) (1858); De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 264. — 
Bebb, Brewer & Watson Bot. Cal. ii. 90. 
Salix Sitchensis congesta, Andersson, Svensk. Vetensk. 
Akad. Handl. ser. 4, vi. 107 (Monographia Salicum) 
(1867) ; De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 233. 
Salix Sitchensis denudata, Andersson, Svensk. Vetensk. 
Akad. Handl. ser. 4, vi. 107 (Monographia Salicum) 
(1867) ;, De Candolle Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 233. 
Region, 300. — F. Kurtz, Bot. Jahrb. xix. 407 (Fl. Chil- 
catgebvetes). 
A low much-branched tree, occasionally twenty-five or thirty feet in height, with a short contorted 
often inclining trunk sometimes a foot in diameter; or more often shrubby in habit and from six to 
fifteen feet in height. The bark of the trunk is about an eighth of an inch in thickness and broken 
into irregular closely appressed scales which are dark brown tinged with red. The branchlets are 
slender, coated at first with thick hoary tomentum, pubescent or tomentose and dark reddish brown or 
orange-color during their first year, and darker, pubescent or glabrous, and sometimes covered with a 
glaucous bloom in their second season. The buds are acute, nearly terete, hght red-brown, pubescent 
or puberulous, and about a quarter of an inch in length. The leaves are conduplicate in the bud, 
oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, entire, or dentate with remote minute spreading glandular teeth, gradu- 
ally narrowed and wedge-shaped at the base, and acute or acuminate or rounded and short-pointed or 
toward the base of the branchlet often rounded at the apex; when they unfold they are pubescent or 
tomentose on the upper surface, and coated on the lower with lustrous white silky tomentum persistent 
during the season or sometimes deciduous from the leaves of vigorous young shoots; and at maturity 
they are thin and firm in texture, dark green, lustrous and glabrous above, with the exception of the 
stout midribs, which are covered with pale pubescence, from two to five inches long and from three 
quarters of an inch to an inch and a half wide, with conspicuous slender veins arcuate and united 
within the margins, rather prominent reticulate veinlets, and stout pubescent grooved petioles rarely 
half an inch in length ; the first pair of leaves are oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, and coated with 
lustrous silky tomentum, and fall when less than half an inch in length. The stipules are foliaceous, 
semilunate, acute or rounded at the apex, glandular-dentate, coated below with hoary tomentum, often 
half an inch long, and usually caducous. The aments are cylindrical, densely flowered, and erect on 
short tomentose branches which bear small acute leaves or scale-like bracts; on the staminate plant 
they are from an inch and a half to nearly two inches long and half an inch broad, and on the pistillate 
plant from two and a half to three inches long and about a quarter of an inch broad, becoming nearly 
four inches in length when the capsules mature; the scales are yellow or tawny, and those of the 
staminate ament are oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, covered with long white hairs, and much 
