496 AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



it is known as long-leaved cucumber tree, ear-leaved umbrella tree, Indian bitters, 

 water lily tree, and mountain magnolia. In cultivation this species is hardy as far 

 north as Massachusetts, and it is planted for ornament in Europe. 



PYRAMID MAGNOLIA (Magnolia pyramidata) seems to have generally escaped 

 the notice of laymen, and it therefore has no English name except the translation of 

 the Latin term by which botanists know it. Its habitat lies in southern Georgia and 

 Alabama, and western Florida, and it is occasionally seen in cultivation in western 

 Europe. It is a slender tree, twenty feet or more in height. Its flowers are three or 

 four inches in diameter, and creamy-white in color. A tree so scarce cannot be ex- 

 pected to be commercially important. 



WESTERN BLACK WILLOW (Salix lasiandra) is a rather large tree when at its 

 best, reaching a diameter of two feet or more, and a height of fifty, but in other parts 

 of its range it rarely exceeds ten feet in height. It follows the western mountain 

 ranges southward from British Columbia into California. The wood is soft, light, 

 and brittle, and is used little if at all. Lyall willow (Salix lasiandra lyallf) is a well 

 marked variety of this species and is a tree of respectable size. 



GLOSSYLEAF WILLOW (Salix lucida) is a far northern species which has its 

 southern limit in Pennsylvania and Nebraska. It grows nearly to the Arctic circle. 

 Trees twenty-five feet high and six or eight inches in diameter are the best this 

 species affords. 



LONGLEAF WILLOW (Salix fluviatilis) is known also as sandbar willow, narrow- 

 leaf willow, shrub, white, red, and osier willow, and by still other names. It ranges 

 from the Arctic circle to Mexico, reaching Maryland on the Atlantic coast, and 

 California on the Pacific. In rare cases it is sixty feet high, and two in diameter, 

 but it is usually less than twenty feet high. 



