Salix. SALICACE^. 213 



what coriaceous : petioles 1-2 lines long. Amenls terminating the leafy branches, about 

 three-fourths of an inch long, rather few-flowered : capsules of a reddish color mixed with 

 green, tapering from an obtuse base ; the pedicels very slender. 



Sphagnous swamps. Catskill mountains {Pursh) ; Lodi, Seneca county {Dr. Folwell) ; 

 near Oriskany (Dr. Knieskern). Fl. May. A low, very distinct and neat species, which 

 my friend Mr. Tuckerman thinks is not distinct from S. myrlilloides, Linn., but I am not yet 

 satisfied that they are the same. 



********** PB.OBTa.iLTS, Barratt. Aments pedunculate, appearing with the leaves. Humble, smnewhat creeping or prostrate 



skmbs. 



16. Salix Cutleri, Tuckerman. Cutler's Willow. 



Depressed ; leaves elliptical and acute, or obovate and obtuse, always acute at the base, 

 glandularly denticulate, smooth and somewhat shining above, glaucous underneath ; aments 

 appearing with the leaves, pedunculate, oblong-cylindrical, compact ; stamens solitary ; cap- 

 sules ovoid-conical, on short pedicels, smooth ; scales obovate (blackish), silky ; style distinct ; 

 lobes of the stigma 2-cleft. — Tuckerman, I. c. p. 36. S. Uva Ursi, Pursh, fl. 2. p. 610?; 

 Torr. in Geol. report for 1840 ; Oakes pi. N. Eng. in Hovey^s Mag. June, 1841. 



Stem depressed and much branched, smooth. Leaves mostly obovate, from half an inch 

 to an inch long and 3-6 lines wide, usually obtuse at the summit, tapering at the base into 

 a short petiole. Aments about half an inch long and 2 lines wide, on short leafy peduncles, 

 very silky when young. Scales of the sterile aments bearing a single stamen : anther 

 roundish. Capsules tapering into a distinct style, very small. 



Summit of Mount Marcy, Essex county. Also on Whiteface {Prof. Hall). Fl. June. 



The aments of this species sometimes produce an anomalous inflorescence. In the female 

 plant (as it seems to be) the ovary is abortive, and in its place is a stipe bearing a perfect 

 2-celled anther at its summit with the cells opening in the usual way, and discharging pollen ; 

 the apparent connective being produced into a short style, which is tipped with an entire 

 stigma. In the same ament are found 2-lobed pedicellate abortive ovaries, each with a short 

 style and simple stigma. 



2. POPULUS. Totirn.; Endl. gen. 1904:. POPLAR. 



[From the Latin, populus, the people ; having been used in ancient times as a shade tree for public wallis.] 



Bracts of the aments laciniated at the extremity. Torus urceolate, oWiquely truncated. 

 Stamens 8 - 12 or more. — Trees, often with pyramidal heads, and usually broad, more or 

 less ovate or cordate toothed leaves. Buds covered with a resinous varnish. Flowers 

 appearing before the leaves. 



