SALICACEAE ( WILLOW FAMILY) 



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WO. S. nigra 



eneath 



<U1 S. Wardi. 



near the roundish or acute base to the tip, often downy when 

 young, at length green and glahnms except the short (2-0 mm. 

 long) petiole and midrib, closely serrulate 

 with fine incurved teeth ; stipules large, 

 semicordate, pointed and persistent, or 

 small, ovate and deciduous ; scales soft- 

 pubescent outside; fruiting aments (3-7 cm. 

 long) more or less dense ; capsules ovoid- 

 conical, gibbous below, glabrous, 3-5 mm. 

 long, the wide-spreading slender pedicels 

 1-2 mm. long, much exceeding the gland. — 

 Banks of streams and lakes, N. B. to Ont., 

 Dak., and southw. Fig. 640. Var. fal- 

 CATA (Pursh) Torr. Leaves narrower and 

 scythe-shaped. — Commoner northeastw. 



2. S. Wardi Bebb. (Ward's W.) Simi- 

 lar ; SDiall tree ; leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, cotispicuo2isly glaucous and veined 

 ; petioles 2-7 mm. long ; stipules large, round-reni- 

 form, persistent ; aments long, loosely 

 flowered, 5-11 cm. long ; scales glabrous 

 outside except at base ; capsules globose- 

 conical, 4.5-6 mm. long, glandular- 

 granulose. (S. nigra, var. Bebb ; S. longipes Britton, not 

 Shuttlew.) — Rocky and gravelly shores, Md. to Va., Ky., 

 and Mo. Fig. 641. 



3. S. amygdaloides Anders. (Peach-leaved W.) Leaves 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, attenuate-cuspidate, pale or 

 glaucous beneath ; petioles slender, 1-3 cm. long; stipules 

 minute, very early deciduous ; fertile aments becoming very 

 loose in fruit, 4-10 cm. long ; capsule globose-conical, gla- 

 brous, 4-6 mm. long, slender-pediceled. — W. Que. and 

 centr. N. Y. to B. C. and Tex. ; common westw. Fig. 

 642. 



•<- -»- Petioles glandular at apex; sterile aments thick, short- 

 cylindrical or ellipsoid -ovoid, densely floircred; leaves 

 642. s. amygdaloides. lustrous above, glandular-serrate ; branchlets lustrous. 



-t-f Leaves green on both surfaces ; fruit mature in early summer. 



= Capsule conic-subulate; pedicel twice exceeding the gland; mature leaves 



short-acuminate. 



4. S. pentandra L. (Bat-leaved W.) Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 rounded at base, finely and closely glandular-serrate, glabrous 

 from the first, in maturity 3.5-10 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad ; 

 staminate aments 2.5-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. thick, the fertile 

 becoming 2.5-5 cm. long ; the mature straw-colored or pale 

 brown slightly lustrous capsule rounded or cordate at base, 

 5-8 mm. long; shrub or small tree. — Cultivated and rarely 

 escaping, N. E. to O. (Introd. from Eu.) Fig. 643. 



= = Capsule conic-ovoid ; pedicel 3 or 4 times exceeding the 

 gland; mature leaves with long -acuminate curved tips. 



5. S. lucida Muhl. (Shining W.) Leaves ovate-lance- 

 olate or narrower, finely serrate, when young pubescent vjith 

 crisp rufescent or sordid caducous hairs, in maturity cori- 

 aceous, shining on both sides, 5-15 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad ; 

 stipules small, oblong or semicircular ; staminate aments 2-5 

 cm. long; fertile becoming 3-5 cm. long; the straw-colored 

 or pale-brown or greenish dull capsules rounded at base, 

 4.5-6.5 mm. long; shrub or small tree. — Wet ground and 



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643. S. pentandra 



