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308. Salix leevigata, Bebb, 

 Am. Nat. viii, 202 ; Bot. California, ii, 83. 



WILLOW. 



California, Sierra county (Lemmon) and the valley of the Sacramento river to the southern boundary of the 

 state. 



A tree sometimes 15 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.60 meter in diameter; borders of streams and 

 bottom lauds. 



A form with narrower falcate leaves (Yreka, E. L. Greene) is 



var. angUStifolia, Bebb in Bot. California, ii, 84. Rotbrock in Wheeler's Eep. vi, 374. 

 A form with short, densely-flowered ameiits is 



Vlir. COngCSta, Bebb in Bot. California, ii, 84. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle, close-grained, compact ; niedullary rays numerous, very thin ; color, light 

 brown tinged with red ; specific gravity, 0.4872 ; ash, 0.58. 



309. Salix lasiandra, Bentham, 



PI. Hartweg. 336. Torrey in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 138. Newberry iu Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 89. Bebb in Bot. California, ii, 84. 

 8. Hoffmanniana, Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey, 159. 



8. spedosa, Nuttall, Sylva, i, 58, t. 17 ; 2 ed. i, 74, 1. 17 [not Hooker & Arnott]. Newberry in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 89. 

 Cooper in Pacific R. R. Rep. xii 2 , 29. 



S. hicida, var. angustifolia, forma lasiandra, Andersson in Ofv. af. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1858, 115 (Proc. Am. Acad. 



iv,54). 



8. arguta, var. lasiandra, Andersson in Kongl. Sven. Akad. Handl. vi, 33; De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 8 , 206. 



WILLOW. 



British Columbia, shores of lake Kamloop (Macoun), southward to the valley of the Sacramento river, 

 California; Eocky mountains, Utah, and through Colorado to New Mexico (var. Fendleriana). 



A tree 12 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.60 meter in diameter; banks of streams; very 

 common ; varying in the shape of the leaves and character of the aments. 



The best marked forms are 



var. lancifolia, Bebb in Bot. California, ii, 84. 



8. lancifolia, Andersson in Kongl. Sven. Akad. Handl. vi, 34, f. 23. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 402. Hall in Coulter's 

 Bot. Gazette, ii, 91. 



8. hlrida, var. macrophylla, Andersson in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 205. 



The common form of British Columbia and western Washington territory and Oregon, 

 var. Fendleriana, Bebb in Bot. California, ii, 84. 

 8. pentandra, var. caudata, Nuttall, Sylva, i, 61, t. 18; 2 ed. i, 77, 1. 18. 



8. Fendleriana, Anderssou in Ofv. af. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1858, 115 (Proc. Am. Acad. iv, 54). Walpers, Ann. v, 745. 

 8. arguta, Andersson in Kongl. Sven. Akad. Handl. vi, 32; De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 205, in part. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle, close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, very obscure; color, 

 light brown, the sap-wood lighter or often nearly white; specific gravity, 0.4756; ash, 0.60. Var. lancifolia, 

 specific gravity, 0.4547 ; ash, 0.79. Var. Fendleriana, the heart-wood brown, sap-wood light brown ; specific gravity, 

 0.4598 ; ash, 0.56. 



