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* Petioles not glandular. 
S. nigra Marsh Arb. Am. 139. (1756). A tree with rough flaky brown 
bark, 50-120 feet high : stem slender, often crooked or leaning: leaves linear- 
lanceolate, tapering from the acute base to an extremely long point, often 
falcate, 4-6 inches long by 3-4 lines broad, closely serrate, smovth and 
green on both sides,. the midrib prominent: stipules semicordate, often 
wanting: aments with leafy peduncles, elongated, the fertile becoming 
rather lax: scales entire or only slightly dentate, villous with crisp hairs: 
capsule ovate-conical, glabrous, brownish tawny, more or less pedicelled : 
styles very short; stigmas slightly notched. Along streams, eastern Ore- 
gon to California and the Gult of Mexico. 
S. amygdaloides Anders. Ofv. Handl. Vet. Akad. 1848,114. A small 
tree 20-7 feet high, with light yellowish-brown flaky bark: leaves lanceo- 
late to ovate-lanceolate, pubescent when young, glabrous when mature, 
dark yreen above, paler and slightly glaucous beneath, long-acuminate, 
1-5 inches long by 5-12 lines broad, entire or more or less sharply serrulate, 
narrowed at base to short petioles: aments appearing with the leaves, 
termina! on short lateral leafy branchlets: the staminate 1-2 inches long, 
their bracts ovate, densely pubescent; stamens more than 2; filaments 
distinct, pubescent at base: pistillate aments loose, spreading, 2-4 inches 
long in fruit, their bracts lanceolate and densely pubescent: stigmas nearly 
sessile: capsule narrowly ovoid, acute, glabrous, at length about as long as 
its filiform pedicel. Along streams in the interior, Brit. Columbia to 
Oregon and Missouri. 
S. congesta. S. lzvigata var. congesta Bebb. A small tree 20-30 feet 
high with pale ash-colored very rough bark and yellowish branchlets: 
leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate to spatulate, 1-3 inches long, silky-lanate 
when young, at léngth glabrousabove, entire or at length glandular serru- 
late, narrowed below to short petioles: aments solitary at the ends of short 
lateral branchlets, appearing with the leaves: staminate aments numerous, 
at length an inch long, the scales orbicular, tomentose; stamens 5; fila- 
ments pubescent with spreading hairs; pistillate aments spreading, oblong, 
or shorter, 6-10 lines long, the scales: lanceolate: capsules glabrous, ovoid, 
acuminate. on slender pedicels nearly a line long. Along rivulets near 
the Klamath river and southward. 
* * Petioles glandular. 
S. lasiandra Benth. Pl. Hartw. 336. A slender tree 20-80 feet high 
with dark brown rough bark: and smooth yellow branchlets: leaves lanceo- 
late, obtuse to acute at base, conspicuously acuminate, finely serrulate, 2-8 
inches long, sparsely pubescent, dark green above, pale or whitish and 
somewhat glaucescent beneath: stipules semilunar or oblong, dentate: 
aments appearing with the leaves from short lateral leafy shoots: stamin- 
ate aments rather loosely flowered, 2-4 inches long: their lanceolate pubes- 
cent scales 2-3 lines long: stamens 4-8, filaments slender, much longer 
than the scales, slightly pubescent at base: pistillate aments 1-3 inches 
long, their pubescent lanceolate scales about a line long, deciduous: capsule 
acuminate-ovoid. 2 lines long on pedicels a line long. Common along 
streams, Brit. Columbia to California. 
S. Fendleriana Anders. Sal. Am. Bore. 115. A tree 30-60 feet high, 
with dark brown rough bark leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate, crenulate, 
green and glabrous on both sides, 3-8 inches long, the short petioles and 
verv base of the leaves glandular: stipules oblong, sometimes large: 
aments on leafy branchlets; staminate dense, 2-3 inches long, their scales 
ee oblong, more or less dentate; stamens 5 or more; filaments hairy at 
ase, longer than the scales; pistillate aments rather loose, the pale oblong 
scales hairy at base, deciduous: capsules glabrous, short-pedicelled : stig- 
