Salix 



SALICACE^ 



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Piirdie ! Wilson; Troy, 2000 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam, 8748.— Cuba, Porto 

 Rico, Texas, Mexico, S. America to Chile. 



Tree to 40 ft. high. Leaves linear, acuminate, serrulate, glabrous, to 

 13 cm. 1., to 8 mm. br. ; stipules deciduous. Catkin 5-7 cm. 1., terminal 

 on leafy branches, appearing with the leaves ; bracts woolly, deciduous. 

 Stamens 4-7. Capsules about 4 mm. 1., glabrous, ovate, stalked; stalk 

 much longer than the gland. 



Mr. W. Harris states : — " The Salix trees at Troy were certainly planted, 

 and I have never seen this species in a wild state. Mr. Muirhead, a very 

 old resident near Troy, told me that a friend of his brought the original 

 cuttings from some part of South America."] 



Family IV. MYRICACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, generally aromatic. Leaves alternate, 

 penniveined ; stipules wanting. Flowers unisexual, sessile under 

 the scale-like bracts, in short cylindrical spikes. Perianth 



Fig. 5. 



A, Shoot with male spikes. 



B, Young male spike. 



C, Male flower. 



D, Portion of female spike. 



E, A female flower with bract cut off, 



Myrka mkrocarpa Benth, 



P", Twig with fruit. 



G, Fruit. 



H, Fruit with seed cut lengthwise ; o, 



outer soft layer ; i> innw hard layer 



of pericarp. 



