GOLDEN OSIER (Scdix alba, Linn., variety vitellind). 40 

 to 60 feet. Venerable-looking, stout-trunked tree with wide, 

 rounded head of vigorous branches, the slim terminal twigs 

 orange or golden. Bark rough, gray, sometimes shaggy. 

 Wood soft, light, weak, brown, used for fuel. Leaves ellip- 

 tical, serrate, 2 to 4 inches long, silky, hairy, becoming smooth 

 at maturity, lining pale or white, hairy; petioles short. 

 Flowers in catkins of the willow type, described above. Fruit 

 a bottle-shaped capsule, in hanging cluster, in May; seeds 

 minute, with float of down. Dist.: Eastern North America. 

 A naturalized variety derived from the white willow of Europe. 



