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SALICINE^. (WILLOW FAMILY.) 



late flowers with a small gland at base of ovary on the inner side. 

 Style 0, or more or less elongated ; stigmas 3, 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. 836. 



(«) Part of a branch of Salix alba, with a catkin of sterile flowers. (&) A single 

 sterile flower, consisting of a scale, two stamens, and a gland, (e) 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. 



'•■ Cathns laieml, apjjearing with leaves. Scales j^cde. Glands 'i. 

 Capsule glah'ons. 



t Scales deciduous lefore tlie maturity of the capsule. 

 X Stamens 5-10. 

 1 S. Safsaf. 



I X Starneiis 3 or rarely 3. 

 3 S. fragilis, 3 alba, 4 Babylonica. 



■\\ Scales ptersistent. Stamens 2-'d. 

 5 S. triandra. 



* * CatJcins lateral, appearing lefore or %oith leaves. Scales of a diferent 

 color toward tip, p)ersistent. " Gland 1. Stamens 2, filaments free. 



t Style xcry short. 

 S. Caproea, 7 pedieellata. 



t t Style elongated. 

 8 S. nigricans. 



1. S. Safsaf, Forsk. 5 Safdf. Shrub or tree, with reddish 

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



