ORDER 122. SALIC ACE^E. 653 



Shrub or small tree, 4 to 15f high, with long, slender, smooth, purple or yel- 

 lowish green twigs, tough and elastic, used in basket making. (& rosmarini- 

 folia Ph.) 



13. FUSCATA. Lvs. obovate-lanceolate, acute ; amenta of a leaden hue from the 

 thinner hairs. 



9 S. viminalis L. BASKET OSIER. Lvs. linear-lanceolate, very long, acuminate, 

 BUbentire, siUcy-canesceni beneath ; slip, minute ; branches virgate ; auaents preco- 

 cious ; scales roundish, very hairy ; filaments distinct ; ova. sessile, ovoid ; sty. 

 filiform; stig. undivided, acute. Wet meadows and margins of rivers. Sts. 10 to 

 12f high, with long, straight, slender, and flexible branches, Lvs. often a foot in 

 length, narrow, covered with a snow-white pubescence beneath. Amenta very 

 hairy. May. Eur. 



10 S. purpiirea L. PUUPLE WILLOW. Lrs. partly opposite, obovate-tanceolate. 

 serrulate above, very smooth, narrowed at the base, aments cylindrical, with leafy 

 bracts at base; scales orbicular, black; filaments united into 1, with 2 anthers', 

 ovary sessile, ovate-elliptic; sty. very short; stig. emarginate. Low grounds, 

 river banks, and cultivated like the last for basket-making. Shrub G to lOf 

 high. Twigs very long, slender and tough, covered with a smooth, olive-colored 

 bark. 



11 S. rostrata Richardson. Branches erect, straight, pubescent, at length 

 smooth ; Ivs. broadly or obovate-lanceolate. acute, subentire, at length coriaceous, 

 smooth above, glaucous-pubescent beneath; slip, semicordate, dentate; ament* 

 short, cyliudric, dense, the fertile ones becoming very long and looso ; scales ob- 

 long, membranous, hairy at the apex; ova, narrow-lanceolate, silky, long-acumi- 

 nate, on very long pedicels; sty. very short; stiy. lobed, the lobes bifid or entire. 

 Shrub or small tree 8 lOf high. Bark of the trunk dark-colored, of the 

 branches yellow. 



12 S. longifolia Muhl. LOXG-LEAVED WILLOW. Lvs. linear, acuminate at eacl. 

 end, elongated, remotely tootiied, smooth, nearly of the same color on both sides : 

 slip, lanceolate, dentate ; aments tomentous, pedunculate ; sta. 2 ; scales flat, rc- 

 tuse ovary short-stalked; fil. bearded at base, twice longer than the scales. 

 River banks from the Conn, and Ohio to Oregon and Brit. Am. It possesses a 

 remarkable power of rooting, extending itself and binding the loose sands to- 

 gether. Stems about 2f high, with brown branches and white branchlets. 



13 S. phylicifolia L. MOUNTAIN- WILLOW. Lvs. ovate or lanceolate, remotelv 

 repand-serrate, glabrous, glaucous beneath; stip. semicordate, oblique at apex; 

 aments bracteate, <$ sessile ; caps, pedicellate, conical-elongated, somewhat silky ; 

 sty. long. White Mts. A handsome, low shrub, spreading, with broad-elliptical, 

 very smooth leaves, the margins repand-serrate. 



14 S. repens L. CREEPING WILLOW. Low, creeping ; Ivs. obovate or lance-obo- 

 vate. acutish or bluntly acuminate, obscurely crenate-tootfied, glabrous and shining 

 above, silky-pubescent, at kngtfi glabrou-s and glaucous beneath, reticulate both 

 fides ; slip, oblong, very caducous ; aments short, few-flowered, very silky ; stain. 

 2 ; ovary silky, pedicellate. Alpine summits White Mts. and northward. Sts. a 

 few inches above ground. Lvs. 8 to 12" by 4 to 6", petioles 3 to 4", clothed 

 with silky pubescence when young, very smooth when old. 



15 S. pedicillaria Ph. Lvs. elliptic-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, rather obtuse 

 at base, entire, both sides glabrous, beneath slightly glaucous and reticulate- 

 veined; amenta pedunculate: caps, ovate-conic, glabrous, lony-pedicellate scalet 

 short, obtuse, a little hairy ; sty. very short; lobes of the stigma cleft. Mountain 

 swamps, N. Eng. and N. Y. A low and elegant shrub, with rather a virgatt* 

 habit, remarkable for its entire smoothness. On mountains it is more straggling. 

 Lvs. light, yellowish green, 1 to 2' long, very entire. (S. myrtilloides Tucker.) 



16. S. Uva-ursi Ph. Lvs. elliptical or obovate, obtuse at each end, glandular- 

 denticulate, smooth above, glaucous-smoothish beneath, silky- villous when young: 

 aments pedunculate, cylindric, dense ; caps, ovate-conic, briefly pedicellate, glabrous; 

 scales obovate, black, silky; slam, one; stig. bifid, lobes at length cleft. White 

 Mts. N. II. A lo\v or prostrate shrub. Lvs. 3 to 5" by 2 to 3". Aments 6". 



17 S. herbacea L. HERB WILLOW. ARCTIC WILLOW. Dwarf; Ivs. orbicular, 

 cor date, serrate, glabrous, veiny; amenta few-flowered, sessile; scales small gLil>- 



