112 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



and rather soft-downy below. The catkins, which are 



bright yellow, appear 

 in early spring long 

 before the leaves. 

 The goat willow 

 has brown or red- 

 dish-brown branches, 

 and grows not over 

 30 feet high. It is adapted 

 to dry situations. 

 Heart-leaved Willow. The heart-leaved wil- 



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ly distinguished by its leaf, which is 

 usually inclined to a scalloped form at 

 the base. But Gray says this is a most 



widely distributed and 

 variable species with an 

 inappropriate name, as 

 its leaves are seldom 

 heart-shaped at the base. However, 

 my drawing was made from a speci- 

 men obtained at the side of a road in 

 the valley of the Pemigewasset Riv- 

 er, New Hampshire, and having 

 compared it with another specimen 

 which grew in southern New York, I found the 

 differences wholly insignificant. A distinguishing 



Heart-leaved Willow. 



