SHINING WILLOW (Salix lucida, Muehl.). Shrub to 25 feet. 

 Broad, round-headed shrub or small tree, with stout, smooth, 

 shining twigs, orange at first, becoming tinged with red. Dark 

 brown with reddish tinge, thin, smooth. Leaves lanceolate, 

 tapering, with round or wedge-shaped base, serrate edges, 3 to 

 5 inches long, leathery, dark green, with yellow ribs, paler 

 beneath; petioles stout, yellow, glandular at apex. Flowers 

 in erect, fuzzy catkins, densely flowered, on ends of short twigs. 

 Fruits, capsules, cylindrical, shining, \ inch long, with minute 

 seeds in silky down. Dist.: Newfoundland to Mackenzie 

 River and eastern slopes of Rocky Mountains; south to Penn- 

 sylvania and Nebraska. 



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