Handbook of Teees of the North i:i,-.\ Siatks and Canada. 



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The Missouri Willow oi-casionally attains 

 the height of 50 or (H) ft. with trunk from 10 

 to 14 in. in diameter. It develops a rather 

 narrow rounded top of ujjright slender .smooth- 

 barked branehes, and the bark of trunk is of a 

 grayish color, thin and smooth or with low- 

 firm ridges. It is a tree of limited distrii)ution 

 and confined mainly to the low rich l)ottom- 

 lands of the lower Missouri River, where it is 

 found in company with the P>laek Willow, 

 Sand-bar Willow, Peach-leaf Willow, the Sweet 

 Gum, Green Ash, Red INIaple, etc. 



The wood is unimportant though sometimes 



used for charcoal. - 



Leaves involute in tlio hud. lanceolate to ob- 

 lanceolate and occasionally ovate-lanceolate, .S-.") 

 in. long, narrowed and wedge-shaped or rounded 

 at base, acuminate, finely serrate with small 

 gland-tipped teeth, pubescent afr first but finally 

 nearly glabrous, darlt gi-een above, paler and 

 often glaucous beneath ; petioles pubescent ; the 

 persistent stipules semicordate, ofter Vj in. long : 

 winter buds large and hoary-tomentose : hranchlets 

 pubescent the first season. Floircrs unfold very 

 early (February-March) on short hranchlets 

 bearing small scale-like leaves ; staminate about 

 1 1/2 in. long: scales light green, hairy outside; 

 stamens 2 with long glabrous free filaments : 

 ovary glabrous, beaked, with very short style and 

 emarginate stigmas. Fruit: a narrow cylindrical 

 ovoid long-pointed capsule with slender stalk 

 about as long as the scale. 



1. Syn. Salix cordata var. vcstita Sarg. 



2. A. W., XII, 297. 



