616 M gRICACEZ MYRICA 
SALIX 
Stamens 4-8. Pistillate ovoid or subglobose: Ovary subtended 
by 2-4 bractlets. Fruit a globose or ovoid wax-coated drupe. 
M. Gale L. Sp. 1024. Anerect shrub 4-8 feet high with dark brown 
twigs: leaves deciduous, oblanceolate, obtuse and dentate at the apex. 
narrowed to a cuneate entire base, short-petioled, dark green and glabrous 
above, pale and puberulent or glabrous beneath, !-3 inches long unfolding 
after the flowers; staminate aments linear-oblong, 6-10 lines long: pistill- 
ate aments oyoid-oblong, obtuse, about 4 lines long and 2 lines in diameter 
in fruit, their bracts imbricated; drupe resinous waxy, not longer than the 
2 ovate persistent bractlets which clasp it on each side and are adnate toits 
base. Along the coast, Oregon to Alaska and the Atlantic States. 
M. Californica Cham. Linn. vi, 535. An evergreen shrub or small tree 
2-30 feet high of erect compact habit, leaves coriaceous, persistent usually, 
slightly tomentose beneath, dark green above, oblanceolate, 2-4 inches 
long, acute, attenuate below to a short petiole, entire, or serrate above the 
base : aments simple or somewhat compound, 3-5 lines long; the small very 
broadly ovate obtuse bracts more or less lacerately ciliate, especially near 
the base: staminate flowers few; stamens 5-15, the filaments united into 
an exserted panicle: bractlets usually 2, oblong, ciliate: fruit purple, papil- 
lose, thinly coated with grayish-white wax, 2 lines in diameter. In wet 
places along the coast, Washington to California. 
Orper XCII SALICACE Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2. 186. 
Trees or shrubs with bitter bark, brittle twigs, alternate leaves 
with stipules and small divecious flowers in axillary aments that 
appear with or before the leaves. Flowers solitary in the axil of 
each bract: the staminate consisting of one to numerous stamens 
inserted on the receptacle, subtended by a gland-like or cup-like 
disk: filaments more or lessunited: anthers 2-celled, the cells 
longitudinally dehiscent. Pistillate flowers of a sessile or short- 
stipitate 1-celled ovary subtended by a minute disk, with 2-4 pa- 
rietal placente and numerous anatropous ovules. Style short, 
slender, or almost wanting. Stigmas 2, simple or 2-cleft. Fruit 
a 2-4-valved capsule. Seeds small, without albumen, covered 
with a coma of dense long silky hairs. Cotyledons plano-convex. 
1 Salix Buds with a single scale: bracts entire: flowers with small 
glands: disk none: stamens few: stigmas short. 
2 Populus Buds with several scales: bracts lacerate: flowers with a 
broad cup-shaped disk: stamens numerous: stigmas elongated. 
1 SALIX L. Sp. 1016. (Wutow.) 
Trees or shrubs with terete branchlets and small flowers in 
aments. Buds covered with a single scale, with an adherent 
membrane within. Bracts of the amentsentire. Disk gland-like, 
small or minute. Staminate aments dense, erect, spreading or 
drooping. Staminate flowers with 1-12, mostly 2, stamens, their 
filaments distinct or sometimes united. Pistillate aments usually 
erect or spreading. Ovary sessile or short-stipitate. Style filiform 
or wanting. Stigmas 2, entire or 2-cleft. Capsule mostly 2-valved, 
§ 1 Trees. Bud-scales yellowish, falling before the maturity 
of the fertile aments. Filaments hairy below. 
