484 SALICACE^;. (WILLOW FAMILY.) 



-t- -t- Pedicels twice the length of the gland; stjle elongated. 



12. S. Candida, Willd. (SAGE W. HOARY W.) Leaves lanceolate or 

 linear-lanceolate, 2-4' long, taper-poinLecl or the lowest obtuse, rather rigid, 

 downy above, becoming glabrate, beneath covered with a dense white tomentum, 

 the revolute margin subentire ; stipules lanceolate, about as long as the petioles; 

 ameuts cylindrical, densely flowered, 2' long in fruit ; anthers red ; the dark 

 gland elongated ; capsule densely white-woolly ; style dark red ; stigmas short, 

 spreading, notched. Cold bogs, N. Eng. and N. J. to Iowa, and northward. 

 A hoary shrub 2-5 high ; young shoots white-woolly, the older red. Two 

 beautiful hybrids, with n. 10 and n. 14, have been found near Hint, Mich. 

 (Dr. Clarke). 



13. S. phylicifdlia, L. Leaves lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 

 somewhat equally pointed or obtuse at both ends, remotely and minutely repand- 

 toothed, 2 - 3' long, very smooth on both sides, dark green and shining above, 

 glaucous beneath, at length coriaceous ; stipules obsolete ; aments sessile with 

 a few small bracts at base, 1' long, rather densely flowered, oblong-cylindric, 

 the fertile somewhat stipitate, becoming 2' long in fruit; scales dark, silky - 

 villous ; capsule conic-rostrate from an ovoid base ; stigmas bifid or entire, 

 yellow drying black. (S. chlorophylla, of Man. ; S. chlorophylla, var. denu- 

 data, Anders.) Moist ravines on alpine summits of the White Mountains, 

 and of Mt. Mansfield, Vt. A divaricately much branched shrub 1 - 10 high; 

 twigs glabrous, sometimes covered with a glaucous bloom. (Eu.) 



S. VIMIXA.LIS, L., the OSIER WILLOW of Europe, is occasionally planted, 

 but soon dies out. Some of its hybrids, as S. SMITHIANA, Willd., etc., stand 

 our climate better, but cannot be regarded as adventive. 



t- t- H- Capsules sessile ; filaments and often the reddish anthers united so as to 



appear as one. 



S. Pi'RPUREA, L. (PURPLE W.) Leaves oblanceolate or tongue shaped, 

 slightly serrulate, very smooth, glaucesceut, subopposite ; stipules obsolete ; 

 aments densely flowered, narrow-cylindrical, the sterile at least closely sessile, 

 with only very small bracts at base; scale small, round, crisp-villous, tipped 

 with dark purple ; capsules grayish-tomentose, ovate-conical, obtuse. Low 

 grounds; commonly cultivated for basket-rods. (Adv. from Eu.) 



* * Capsules glabrous. 



1- Tall shrubs, 4-10 high ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-4' long, acute 

 or acuminate (on vigorous shoots rounded, truncate or cordate at base), serrate ; 

 sterile aments very silky, with a few bracts at base, V long or more, the fertile 

 leaf y-ped uncled, in fruit 2' long or more; capsules tapering, pointed. 

 w Leaves soon smooth; capsules long-pedicelled ; style medium. 



14. S. cordata, Muhl. (HEART-LEAVED W.) Leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 or narrou-er, on the flowering branches often tapering at base, sharply serrate, 

 finely denticulate or subentire, green both sides or scarcely paler beneath, the 

 young often silky or downy, especially on the midrib, not turning black in 

 drying ; stipules reuiform or ovate, serrate, usually large and conspicuous ; 

 am, ntt, 'rather slender ; capsules greenish or rufescent, 2 - 3" long. (S. rigida, 

 J/,,///.) Var. ANGUST\TA, Anders. Leaves narrower, gradually acuminate, 

 finelv serrate. In wet places and along streams, etc.; our most widely dis- 

 tributed and variable species. S. MYRICOIUES, Muhl. (S. cordata, var. myri- 



