Handbook of Trees of the 'N'oiitiikkn States axd Canada. 75 



The Peach-leaf Willow is a handsome and 

 distinct Willow, sometimes attaining,' the 

 height of GO or 70 ft. with straight columnar 

 trunk 2 ft. in diameter. When isolated from 

 other trees it develops a rather narrow rounded 

 top of upright and spreading branches, and 

 while the bark of trunk is ridged it is dis- 

 tinctly smoother and with more appressed 

 scales than is that of the Black Willow, a 

 character especially noticeable on the larger 

 branches. Its large pendent leaves are quite 

 suggestive of those of the Peach and Almond 

 trees and from that fact it receives its name. 

 In company with the Black Willow, with 

 which it apparently freely hybridizes, it grows 

 along the borders of streams and low lake- 

 shores over a large area. In distribution it is 

 an almost exact complement of that of the 

 Black Willow, in that it is rarer in the cast 

 and more abundant westward as far as to the 

 Rocky Mountains at least, while the reverse is 

 true of the Black Willow. 



Its wood is light, a cubic foot when abso- 

 lutely dry weighing 28.10 lbs., soft and not 

 strong, and used mainly for charcoal and fuel.i 



Leaves rovohite in the hud. 2-(! in. lontr, ovato- 

 lancoolate (o lancoolatc. from cuncatc to roniidcd 

 at l)asp, finely serrate, narrowing to a loiiir slen<ler 

 point: luslroii.s lijiht f;reen al>ove, pale and tilaii- 

 cous beneath; petioles slender, eloiii^aled and with- 

 f>ut glands ; stipules reniforni but mostly fimacious. 

 /■'loircrs appear witli tlie li'aves in li^rmiiinl aments 

 on leafy branchlets ; scales yellow, villous l)t)th 

 sides, caducous : stamens .'>-!» with filaments hairy 

 at base ; pistillate aments loose with lonsr-stalked 

 narrow-ovoid glabrous ovaries and nearly sessile 

 emarginate stigmas. Fruit globose conical with 

 long slender pedicels. = 



1. A. W., Ill, 71. 



2. For genus sec pp. 4i:."-42G. 



