216 VIOLET AND PURPLE WILLOWS 



Catkins lateral on branches of the second year, early, 

 cylindroid, the </ abounding in honey, and about 3 5*5 

 x 1*5 2*5 cm., the $ 2*5 5 cm. x 8 12 mm. or so; at 

 first silvery with long, silky hairs, and with few scales at the 

 base. The scales pale below, black in the upper half. Only 

 one posterior gland. Stamens 2, free, glabrous. Ovary 

 sub-sessile, on a pedicel shorter than the gland, glabrous ; 

 style long, stigma shortly bifid. Capsule smooth, short, 

 with reflexed valves. 



OO Ovary hairy; branches not pruinose. 



Style short and stigma sessile; ovary 

 white-tomentose ; stamen single, of two 

 fused into one; leaves oblong -lanceolate 

 or so, glabrescent, bluish beneath, about 

 4 6 times long as broad, sub-opposite. 



Salix purpurea, L. Purple Willow (Fig. 62). Branches 

 devoid of waxy bloom. 



Catkins lateral on branches of the preceding year, 

 appearing early and flowering just before the leaves unfold, 

 nearly sessile, with a few small basal leaves ; slender 

 cylindroid, straight or curved; about T5 4'5cm. long and 

 5 10mm. broad. Scales longish obovate or rounded, 

 green below, reddish in the middle, and purple or more 

 generally brown to black at the tips, hairy on both surfaces. 



Each flower with 1 very small gland, which is posterior. 

 Stamens of two fused into one up to the anthers, which 

 latter appear as if 4-lobed, purple-red, becoming black; 

 hairy below (Fig. 25, (7). Ovary on a pedicel shorter than 

 the gland, or sessile ; broad, ovoid, blunt, white-tomentose ; 

 style very short, or the oblong slender stigmas sessile, and 

 nearly entire ; the latter also purple-red, becoming black. 

 Capsules small, sub-sessile, on pedicels not longer than the 

 gland, crowded, tomentose, greenish- white, valves spreading. 



