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SALICINE^. (willow family.) 



late flowers with a small gland at base of ovaij ou the inner side. 

 Style 0, or more or less elongated ; stigmas 2, generally bifid — Trees 

 or shrubs, generally growing beside water, with flexible branches, and 

 undivided, alternate leaves, entire or glandular-toothed. Catkins 

 appearing before or with the leaves. 



Fig. 



(fl) Part of a brancli of Salix alba, with a cr.tkin of sterile flowers, {h) A single 

 sterile flower, consisting of a scale, two stamens, and a gland, (c) Part of branch with a 

 catkin of fertile flowers, {d) A single fertile flower, consisting of a scale, the ovary with one 

 style and two stigmas, and at the base of the ovary a gland. 



* CatMns lateral., a2')pearing icitli leaves. Scales 2^ale. Glaneh"^. 

 Cajjside fjlahroiis. 



t ScaJes< (lecichious lefore tlie maturity of the cajysule. 

 X Stamens 5-10. 

 1 S. Safsaf. 



l I Stamens 2 or rarely 8. 

 3 S. fragilis, 3 alba, 4 Babylonica. 



ft Scales persistent. Stamens 2-^. 

 5 S. triandra. 



* '^ Catlcins lateral, appearing he/ore or icitJi leaves. Scales of a different 

 color toward tip, p)ersistent. Gland 1. Stamens 2, Jilamentsfree. 



t Style tery slwrt. 

 G S. Caprsea, 7 pedicellata. 



1- t Style elongated. 

 8 S. nigricans. 



1. S. Safsaf, Forsk. 5 '?^\^- Shrub or tree, with reddish 

 brown branches. Catkins straight, 'on leafy peduncles, cylindrical, .03 



