EARED WILLOW 



223 



gland. Style very short : stigmas short, emarginate, 

 divaricate. 



Fig. 65. Eared Willow, Salix aurita, p. 221 (Sw). 



(/3) Catkin-scales not entire, but slit or fimbri- 

 ated. Catkins of both <f and $ flowers 

 ending the dwarf shoots, and similarly 

 cylindrical, long and pendulous. Flowers 

 borne on, or invested by, a broad and 

 scale-like, or a cup-like disc. The naked 

 flower of about 8 30 simple stamens 

 on an oblique open disc; the $ of a flask- 

 like ovary invested by the cup-like disc. 

 Otherwise like Salix, but the leaves as 

 broad as long, or nearly so, and of cordate, 

 rhomboid, or angular outlines, or even 

 lobed ; anemophilous (Populus). 



