SALICINEiE. (WILLOW FAMILY.) 74 1 



_ 9. <^. Libaui, Oliv. 5 Low tree or shrub, the branches and 

 petioles glabrous. Leaves deciduous, tlie mature ones glabrous on both 

 sides, glossy at upper surface, petioled, rounded or cuneate at base, 

 lanceolate, .1 to .2 long, .03 to .05 broad, coarse-dentate to serrate, 

 teeth ascending, triangular, murronate-aristate. Acorns solitary, nearly 

 sessile. Scales of cupule greyish, minutely puberulent, all appressed, 

 rhOmUc-ovate, the upper 7iarroicer hut imt longer; nut slightly exsertcd 

 — Spring — Woods of middle zone of Lebanon, Cassius, Amanus, and 

 northward. 



5. FAOlJJ!», Tourn. Beech. 



Staminate Jlowers in globular, loug-peduncled aments, enclosed in 

 an involucre of minute, deciduous scales. Perigouium 5-G-fid. Sta- 

 mens 10-15. Pistillate jloicers usually 2 in an urn-shaped, 4-lobed 

 involucre, connate with bases of numerous, linear bracts. Perigonium 

 adnate to ovary, limb small, fringed; ovary triangular, 3-cclled, with 

 2 ovules in each cell; styles 3, linear, stigmatose along their inner bor- 

 der. Nuts enclosed in the enlarged, ovoid, 4-parted, woody, soft- 

 prickly involucre, twin or (by abortion) single, triquetrous, crowned 

 with the limb of the perigonium, usually 1-seeded. Pericarp leathery. 

 Cotyledons fleshy, edible, furnished with irregular prominent folds 

 within, somewhat united — Trees or shrubs with a close, smooth, asli- 

 grey bark, horizontal spray, the flowers appearing with the leaves. 



F. sylvatica, L. 5 5 to 20, comus oblong-ovate. Buds glabrous, 

 glossy. Leaves deciduous, folded along the lateral nerves in vernation, 

 petioled, cuneate to subcordate at base, obovate-oblong to broad-lenti- 

 cular, .05 to .08 long, acute or acuminate, more or less sinuate-dentic- 

 ulate, the younger silky-ciliate at margin and along nerves of under 

 surface.. Involucre light-tawny, .015 long in fruit, silky-woolh', scales 

 erect; nut winged — Spring- Woods; middle zones of Amanus, and 

 northward. 



Order CL SALICIJVE^, Rich. (Willow Family). 

 Dioecious tr^ees or shricbs, loitli hoth kinds of floimrs in 

 catkins^ one floiuer under each hract, entirely destitute of 

 calyx and corolla; the fruit a 1-celled^ %valvedpod^ contain- 

 ing numerous seeds clothed loith long, silky doion — Staml- 

 nate floiuers. Stamens 2-inany, free or monadelphous. 

 Pistillate flowers. Ovary free, placenta; 2, parietal. Style 

 1 or more. Stigmas 2 — Leaves alternate, undivided, with 

 scale-like deciduous, or leaf-like persistent, stipules. \Yood 

 light colored, soft. Bark bitter. 



.1. SALIX. Shrubs or trees, usually witli oblong, lanceolate, or linear leaves (rarely obo- 

 vate). Buds not covered with resinous varnish. 



2. POPULU.S. Tall trees, usually with oblong to ovftte leaves (those of early and sterile 

 branches often lanceolate to linear). Buds covered with a resinous varnish. 



1. SAL.IX, Tourn. Willow. Osier. >::af.af. 



Scales of catkins entire. Staminaie Jloicers. Stamens 2, rarely 

 3-13, free or somewhat connate, witli 1-3 little glands at base. Pistil- 



