SAND-BAR WILLOW (Salix fluviatilis, Nutt). 20 to 30 feet. 

 Slender tree or much-branched shrub, covering sandy shoals 

 and mud flats. Bark dark brown, irregularly cut into scaly 

 plates. Wood soft, pale brown, with thin, light-colored sap- 

 wood. Leaves very narrowly lanceolate, coarsely toothed, 

 silky at first, smooth, bright green, paler beneath, 2 to 4 inches 

 long, with raised, prominent midrib, short petiole, and minute, 

 deciduous stipules. Flowers in slender, silky catkins, 1 to 3 

 inches, on separate trees. Fruit pale brown, ovoid capsules; 

 seeds minute, winged with silk. Dist. : Quebec to Northwest 

 Territory; south to Virginia, Kentucky, and New Mexico. 

 Very common in Mississippi Valley. 



