SALICACEAE. 



VOL. I. 



17. Salix Candida Fluegge. Hoary or Sage Willow. Fig. 1467. 



Salix Candida Fluegge; WiHd. Sp. PI. 4: 708. 1806. 



An erect shrub, 2-5 tall, the older twigs red 

 or purple and terete, the younger densely white- 

 tomentose. Leaves mostly persistently white- 

 tomentose beneath, green and loosely tomentose or 

 becoming glabrate above when mature, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, thick, sparingly repand-denticu- 

 late or entire, acute at both ends or the lower obtuse 

 at the apex, 2' -4' long, 3 "-8" wide, their margins 

 slightly revolute; petioles \\"-z" long; stipules 

 lanceolate-subulate, about equalling the petioles, 

 deciduous; aments expanding before the leaves, 

 dense, cylindric, the staminate about i' long, the 

 pistillate i'-2' long in fruit; bracts villous, persist- 

 ent; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; style filiform, 

 red, three times as long as the stigmas; capsule 

 ovoid-conic, acute, densely tomentose, 2$ "-3" long, 

 very short-pedicelled. 



In bogs, Newfoundland to Athabasca, Wyoming, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa and South Dakota. Hybrid- 

 izes with S. petiolaris and S. cordata. May. 



18. Salix pellita Anders. Satiny Willow. 

 Fig. 1468. 



S. pellita Anders. Vet. Acad. Handl. 6: 139. 1867. 



A shrub, 5-8 high, or sometimes a small tree, 

 the twigs reddish to olive-brown. Leaves oblong, 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, i-4' long, entire or ob- 

 scurely crenulate, acute at both ends, or bluntish at 

 the apex, bright green and glabrous above, pale and 

 satiny-pubescent or nearly glabrous beneath, short- 

 petioled ; aments on short leafy branches, the pistillate 

 ones becoming 2' long in fruit; stamens 2, glabrous; 

 bracts villous ; capsule densely white-pubescent, 2"- 

 22" long, short-conic with a rounded base, very short- 

 pedicelled ; style longer than the stigmas. 



Along rivers and swamps, Quebec to Manitoba, Maine 

 and Vermont. 



Salix sericea Marsh. Silky Willow. Fig. 1469. 



Salix sericea Marsh. Arb. Am. 140. 1785. 

 Salix coactilis Fernald, Rhodora 8: 22. 1906. 



A shrub, 5-i2 tall, with slender purplish puberulenl 

 twigs, the young leaves densely silky-pubescent. Ma- 

 ture leaves glabrous or pubescent, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 narrowed or obtuse at the base, serrulate all around 

 with gland-tipped teeth, dark green above, paler and 

 somewhat glaucous beneath, turning brown or black in 

 drying, 2^-4' long, 5"-io" wide; stipules narrow, de- 

 ciduous ; petioles 2."-f long, sometimes glandular ; 

 aments expanding before the leaves, sessile, the pistil- 

 late with a few leaves at the base, dense, the staminate 

 about i' long, the pistillate i'-ii' long in fruit; bracts 

 villous, persistent ; stamens 2 ; filaments glabrous ; style 

 short ; capsule ovoid-oblong, obtuse, pubescent, short - 

 edicelled, about ii" long. 



In swamps and along streams, New Brunswick to Mich- 

 igan, North Carolina and Ohio. May. 



Salix subsericea (Anders.) Schneider, of eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, has leaf and capsule characters intermediate be- 

 tween this species and the following one, and has been 

 regarded both as a hybrid and as a distinct species. 



