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*). Aments long in fruit with many capsules, stigmas greenish 



white when fresh. S. discolor. 



9. Aments short and thick, few flowered, stigmas red when 



fresh. S. humilis. 



10. Aments short, scales frequently darkened at the tip, 



leaves narrow, turning black. S. petiolaris. 



10. Aments long, scales yellow, leaves broader, strongly 



veined, remaining green. S. bebbiana. 



11. Capsules hairy. 12. 



11. Capsules glabrous. 16. 



12. Style more than 1 mm , long. 5. Candida. 



12. Style less than 1 mm. long. 13. 

 13. Capsule subsessile, blunt pointed, stigmas sessile. S. interior. 

 13. Capsule with a distinct pedicel, acute, narrow conic, stigmas 

 rarely sessile. 14. 

 14. Capsule thinly hairy, almost glabrescent, aments short, 

 leaves narrow, silvery, blackening; northern. 



S. petiolaris. 

 14. Capsule persistently hairy, aments long. 15. 

 15. Scales persistent, light colored, leaves broad, wooly below 

 with prominent veins, pedicels very long; northern. 



5. bebbiana. 

 15. Scales usually deciduous at length, almost black, leaves 

 without prominent veins, pedicel short to medium. 



5. discolor. 

 16. Capsules long pedicelled. 17. 

 16. Capsules short pedicelled or sessile. 1!. 

 17. Aments short, bracts obtusish, small, capsul nerally 



redening; small shrub in sphagnum bogs only. 



>'. pedi cllaris. 

 17. Aments long, bracts large; good-sized shrubs or tires. Is. 

 18. Capsules narrow conic; northern. 5. amygdaloides. 



18. Capsules mostly globose conic; extreme south. 



S. longipes. 

 19. Capsules short conic, aments nearly glabrous. 20. 

 19. Capsules rather long conic 22. 



20. Aments d< i hort (25 mm. or less) of small calibre, 



with a few small bracts. S. babyloti 



l'O. Anient er, bracts larger. 21. 



21. Scales as long as the ovulary, capsules yellowing in fruit, 



aments rather lax ; leaves pubescent . glaucescent S .///</. 



21. Scales shorter than the ovulary at anthesis, capsules green, 



anient den ; leaves glabrous, green. S. nigra. 



22. Bra I i pecially stipules, wc. glandular, coriaceous, 



bra< t and leaves bro.nl, .Mien, capsules when ripe 



more than 6 nun. long; northern. S, lucida. 



