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Distribution. A native of Europe. It has been frequently planted 

 and often escapes. 



Specimens have been seen from the following Indiana counties: 

 Benton (Deam); Clark (Deam); Laporte (Beam); Switzerland (Beam); 

 Union (Beam); Wells (Beam). 



Economic Uses. This species and the white willow are introduced 

 from Europe and extensively grown for the production of charcoal to 

 use in powder making. 



5. Salix discolor Muhlenberg. PUSSY WILLOW. SWAMP WILLOW. 

 GLAUCOUS WILLOW. Plate 14. Shrub or small tree, 2-4 or occasionally 

 7-5 m. (7-15 or 25 feet) high; bark thin, usually smooth, reddish brown; 

 twigs stoutish, reddish-purple to dark brown, often pubescent (see the 

 variety); buds large, 5-10 mm. (1/5-2/5 inch) long, colored as the 

 twigs; stipules large, mostly roundish, entire or toothed; leaves short- 

 lanceolate to elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, acute or short-acuminate 

 at the apex, rounded or acute at the base, 5-10 cm. (2-4 inches) long, 

 2-3. 5 cm. (4/5-1-^2 inches) wide, nearly entire to coarsely wavy -toothed 

 on the margins, dark shining green above, densely glaucous and occa- 

 sionally somewhat pubescent beneath, especially on midrib and pri- 

 maries; flowers appear in late March or in April before the leaves; 

 catkins sessile, on old wood, stout, dense, the staminate very beauti- 

 ful (pussies), without leaf-bracts at base, 2-5 cm. (1-2 inches) long, the 

 pistillate becoming 3-8 cm. (lM>-3 inches) long in fruit; scales elliptic- 

 oblanceolate, densely clothed with long shining hairs; capsules conic- 

 rostrate, 7-10 or 12 mm. (H~H incn ) J n g> densely gray-woolly; 

 pedicels 1.5-3 mm. (1/16-^ginch) long. 



Distribution. Nova Scotia south to Belaware and west to the 

 eastern edge of the Great Plains-area. Fairly well distributed over the 

 entire State of Indiana. Specimens have been seen from the follow- 

 ing counties: Allen (Beam); Bearborn (Beam); Becatur (Beam); 

 Elkhart (Beam); Fulton (Beam); Gibson (Schneck); Hancock (Mrs. 

 Chas. C. Beam); Henry (Beam); Jackson (Beam); Jay (Beam); Jef- 

 ferson (Beam); Jennings (Beam); Knox (Beam); Lake (Beam); 

 Marion (Mrs. Chas. C. Beam); Marshall (Beam); Newton (Beam); 

 Porter (Beam) ; Randolph (Beam) ; Ripley (Beam) ; Shelby (Mrs. Chas. 

 C. Beam); Sullivan (Beam); Tippecanoe (Beam); Wabash (Beam); 

 Warren (Beam); Wayne (Beam); Wells (Beam); White (Beam). 



5a. Salix discolor variety eriocephala (Michaux) Andersson. 

 Biffers from the species chiefly in rather densely pubescent twigs and 

 buds; thicker and more lanceolate leaves, usually more or less pubescent 

 beneath; and the sometimes more densely pubescent catkins. 



Distribution. Range of the species but less common. Specimens 

 have been seen from the following Indiana counties: Cass (Beam); 



