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adhere to the sides forming wing-like appendages to the 

 fruit (Fig. 57, E). Styles 2, divaricating, red. Ovule 1, basal, 

 orthotropous. Fruit dry, drupaceous, and winged ; densely 

 sprinkled with golden glands. 



** Catkins more or less erect, but not collected 

 into a terminal, erect, stiff spike ; each 

 terminating a dwarf shoot, each flower 

 with 1 or 2 minute peg-like or scale-like 

 honey -glands placed antero- posteriorly. 

 Catkin scales entire and of one colour 

 (concolor), or tipped with brown or black 

 (discolor). Stamens 1 5 (rarely more, 

 and not normally 4). Ovary more or less 

 flask-shaped, with bifid or broad stigmas: 

 entomophilous and anemophilous. Ovules 

 numerous, minute, on parietal placentas. 

 Fruit a dehiscent capsule with numerous 

 minute comose seeds [Salix). 



t Catkins flowering late, with the foliage or [For (++) 

 after ; distinctly, though sometimes shortly, see p. 215.] 

 stalked and with leaves at the base, lateral 

 on the twigs or apparently sub-terminal. 



Catkins small, usually only about 5 15 [For (GO) 

 x5 8 mm., and arising from buds near ^^^^'^^^-^ 

 the apex of long shoots, therefore pseudo- 

 terminal. Plants dwarf, prostrate, or creep- 

 ing ; mostly rare alpine or northern forms. 

 Catkin-scales persistent. Stamens 2, free. 



n Scales of the catkin concolor, i.e. all one 

 colour, green or pale. Style short; nectary 

 1 in the $ flower, 2 in the $ flower, papy- 

 raceous, unceolate or disc-like. 



Nectary papyraceous ; scales of the 

 catkin nearly glabrous, ciliate ; ovary 

 sub -sessile, glabrous. 



