Handbook of Trees of the Noktjikkn Statks and Canada. 



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The Shining Willow is 

 ing the height of 25 ft. 

 rarely 10 or I'Z in. in din 

 often shrubby than arlx 

 growth. Its branc'lu's gi 

 ward forming a rather bi 

 inhabits the banks of str 



sMiali tree attain- 

 ith a sliort trunk 



scent in lialiit of 

 u|irigii« and o.it- 

 d rounded top. It 

 us, lake-sliures and 

 swamps in eompany witli tiie (Raucous and 

 otlu'r Willows, Alders, etc. among which its 

 shining bright green leaves may be quickly dis- 

 tinguished. It is a species of quite wide dis- 

 tribution and greater abundance in the nortli- 

 ern part of its range than to the southward. 

 Economically the species is of little import- 

 ance, though its conspicuous flowering aments 

 in early spring, and later its clean glistening 

 foliage, give it value for planting in suitald;' 

 localities for ornamental jjurposes. 



Leaves Involute in the l)ud, lanceolate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, wedge-shaped or rounded at base, 

 mostly long-acuminate, Hnel.v serrate, 2-6 in. loni. 

 coriaceous, covered with scattered pubescence when 

 the.v unfold but finall.v glabrous, lustrous dark 

 green above, slightly paler and with broad yellow- 

 ish midribs beneath ; petioles stont, puberulous 

 glandular at apex : stipules small oblong or semi 

 cordate, glandular-serrale. Floirers aments termi- 

 nating stout lateial leafy branchlets, erect, with 

 thick tomentose peduncles ; sca'es pale yellow, 

 rounded at apes, denticulate, glabrous above ; the 

 staminate short, stout and densely flowered : 

 stamens usually .5 with long free filaments, hairy 

 at base : pistillate ament more slender with elon- 

 gated long-stalked glabrous ovary and nearly ses- 

 sile emarginate stigma. Fruit ca|)sule long ovoid, 

 acute, much longer than the pedicel, lustrous and 

 often long persistent after liberating the seeds. 



