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somewhat cut-toothed ; fertile catkins long-stalked, ovoid. (A. undulata, WUld. 

 Bctula crispa, Afichx.) On mountains and along streams which descend from 

 them, N. New England and New York, shore of L. Superior, and northward. 

 Shrub 3 - 8 C high. (Eu.) 



ORDER 110. SALIC ACE^. (WILLOW FAMILY.)* 



Dio2cious trees or shrubs, with both kinds of flowers in calkins, one under 

 each bract, entirely destitute of calyx or corolla; the fruit a 1-cclled and 2- 

 valved pod, containing numerous seeds clothed with a long silky down. 

 Ovary 1-celled or imperfectly 2-cellecl: styles 2, very short, or more or 

 less united, each with a 2-lobed stigma. Seeds ascending, anatropous, with- 

 out albumen. Cotyledons flattened. Leaves alternate, undivided, with 

 scale-like and deciduous, or else leaf-like and persistent, stipules. Wood 

 soft and light : bark bitter. 



I. SAL IX, Tourn. WILLOW. OSIER. 



Bracts (scales) of the catkins entire. Sterile flowers of 2-6 (rarely single) 

 stamens, accompanied by 1 or 2 little glands. Fertile flowers also with a small 

 flat gland at the base of the ovary on the inner side : stigmas short. Trees or 

 shrubs, generally growing along streams, with round flexible branches and large 

 tough roots. Leaves mostly long and pointed, entire or glandularly toothed. 

 Buds covered by a single scale, with an inner adherent membrane (separating 

 in 2). Catkins appearing before or with the leaves. (The classical name, 

 said to be derived from the Celtic sal, near, and Us, water.) 



1 . Cafkins lateral and sessile, appearing before the leaves in April or May : stamen* 

 2 : scales dark red or broion becoming black, more or less hairy, persistent. 



* Ovary stalked, downy, hairy, or icoolly. 



+- Catkins ovoid or short-cylindrical, small : leaves entire or obscurely iravy-toothed, 

 luiiry or woolly, with prominent veins and more or less revolnte margins. Shrubs. 



\. S. Candida, Willd. (IIoAHT WILLOW.) Leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late, taper-pointed, or the lowest obtuse, the upper surface and young branche* 

 covered with a thin we^-like wool more white and dense, beneath ; stipules small, lanceo- 

 late, toothed, about the length of the petioles; catkins oblong-cylindrical, closely 

 flowered; ovary densely woolly; style distinct; stigmas 2-cleft; scales oblong, 

 obtuse. (S. incana, MicJix., not of Schrank.) New York and New Jersey to 

 Wisconsin, and northward; in bogs. Stems 2 -5 high, with reddish twigs, 

 smooth and shining at maturity. The whole shrub of a very white aspect in 

 exposed situations, but greener in shade. 



2. S. tristis, Ait. (DWARF GRAY WILLOW.) Leaves almost sessile, 

 wedge-lanceolate, pointed, or the lower obtuse, grayish-woolly on both sides, the 



* I am indebted to JOHN CARET, Esq., for the entire elaboration of this difficult family. (In 

 this second edition I have merely made slight additions respecting the range of some speck* 

 nd have reduced the Balm of Gilead to a variety of Populus balsauiifera.) 



