Wright's Willow 



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glandular-tipped teeth, somewhat hairy on 

 both sides when unfolding, soon becoming 

 smooth and about the same shade of green 

 above and beneath; they are from 5 to 12 

 cm. long, from 7 to 12 mm. wide, and their 

 hairy stalks are 4 to 6 mm. long; their 

 stipules are 10 mm. long or less, lanceo- 

 late, glandular-toothed, and fall away early 

 in the season. The catkins are 2.5 to 5 

 cm. long, borne at the ends of short, leafy 

 branches of the season, and flower as the 

 leaves unfold in March or April; their axes 

 are very hairy, and their almost woolly scales 

 are obovate or rounded; the staminate 

 flowers have from 5 to 11 stamens with 

 separate filaments hairy toward the base; ^^- 141. -Dudley's Willow, 



the pistillate flowers have a stalked ovary with a very short style and lobed stig- 

 mas. The capsule is ovoid, smooth, 4 or 5 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 times as long as 

 its stalk. 



This is the largest species of willow native in southern California. 



3. WRIGHT'S WILLOW SaUx WrigMii Andersson 



Ftg. 142. Wright's Willow. 



Wright's willow occurs 

 abundantly in wet soil, es- 

 pecially along rivers and 

 streams, from Texas to south- 

 em Arizona and through ad- 

 jacent Mexico. The tree 

 closely resembles the Black 

 willow in botanical charac- 

 ters, and has been regarded 

 by many authors as a variety 

 of that species, and it has also 

 been mistaken, at least in 

 part, for the Cuban Salix oc- 

 cidentalis Koch. 



The bark is rough and 

 flaky; the young twigs are 

 smooth or slightly hairy, and 

 yellow to yellow-green, be- 

 coming brown, and this yellow 

 tint of the branchlets seems 



