Handbook of Treks of the North ekn States and Canada. 



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A small tree, rarely over .'id ft. in licit^lit or 

 S or 1(1 in. in thickness of trunk, which is 

 vesteil in a dark i)n.\\ii hark rou;<h with 

 prominent linn ridges. It is often found fruit 

 ing as a shrub. It dilTers from the Ulaek 

 Willow in distribution in that it is found more 

 along the rocky or gravelly banks or beds of 

 streanis. wliere its dark cohired l)ark and small 

 crooked trunks are found so close to the rush- 

 ing waters that they are often bruised and 

 battered hy the passing Hood-wood, while the 

 I'dack Willow is found along (he baid<s of still 

 flowing streams of the bottom-lands, where the 

 waters are less turbulent. Its geographic 

 range is not yet well determined. 



Its wood is light, soft, not strong and of a 

 reddish brown color with thin nearly white 

 sap-wood. - 



Lcaroi involute in the liud. 4-7 in. lontr, lanee- 

 c'late to ovate-Ianceolato, cnneate or rounded and 

 the largest leaves sometimes cordate at base, lonj;- 

 pointed, finely and unequally serrate, glabrous 

 bri-jht green above, somewhat pubescent and 

 whitish beneath ; the foliaceous stipules reniform, 

 often % in. long : petioles short, without glands ; 

 winter buds small, brown, lustrous, branchlets 

 hoar.v pubescent. Flowers: aments terminal on 

 leaf.v branchlets. 3-4 in. long ; scales ovate, yellow, 

 obtuse, villous ; stamens .3-7 with filaments hairy 

 at base and yellow anthers ; ovary long-stalked 

 with nearly sessile stigmatic lobes. Fruit capsules 

 a'lont U in. long, globose conical. 



1. Syn. Snlix AVardi Bebb. Kali.r occidental is 

 Koch. 



A. W., XII, 290. 



