150 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. SALICACEZ. 
longer than the more acute scales of the pistillate ament, which are clothed with short pale or rufous 
pubescence. The staminate flower consists of a single stamen with an elongated glabrous filament, or 
very rarely of two stamens with filaments united below the middle or nearly to the apex. The ovary 
is short-stalked, ovate, conical, acute, and gradually narrowed into the elongated style which is crowned 
by thick entire or slightly emarginate stigmas. The capsule is ovate, narrowed above, light reddish 
brown, pubescent, and about a quarter of an inch long. 
Salix Sitchensis inhabits the banks of streams and other low moist situations, and is distributed 
from Alaska, where it was discovered by Russian collectors, southward in the neighborhood of the coast 
to Santa Barbara, California. 
The wood of Salix Sitchensis is light, soft, and close-grained ; it is light red, with thick nearly 
white sapwood, and contains numerous thin medullary rays. The specific gravity of the absolutely dry 
wood is 0.5072, a cubic foot weighing 31.61 pounds. 
One of the most beautiful of the North American Willows with its lustrous shoots and brilliant 
foliage, Salix Sitchensis is a desirable ornamental plant, and is now occasionally cultivated in European 
gardens. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate CCCCLXXXVI. Sarr SircHensis. 
. A flowering branch of the staminate tree, natural size. 
A staminate flower with its scale, side 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. 
NAAT FP ODN 
. A summer branch, natural size. 
