214 



ALMOND ^MLT.OAV 



Catkins on leafy, lateral, short shoots, on twigs of the 

 preceding year; lax-flowered, with white-pubescent axis, the 

 ^ about 2-5 8-5 x 1 cm., the % about 37 x 0-5 06 cm. 

 Glands 2 in the ^ , but only 1 in the % flower. Scales 



Fig. 61. Almond Willow, Sali.x tiiandra, p. 213 (Sc). 



greenish-yellow, glabrous at the back, ciliate, somewhat 

 caducous. Stamens 3, long, smooth, with golden anthers. 

 Ovary pedicellate, oblong-conoid, smooth ; style obsolete ; 



