g^ SALICACK.'K. SalLr. 



anient round ish-obovate and cucullate, in tlie female narrower and truiieate, -with 

 2 to 4 irregular teetli at the a\w\ : capsule conical from a thick base, acute, glabrous : 

 pedicel 3 or 4 times the length of the nectary : style obsolete or short ; stigiuas 

 emarginate. 



Var. angustifolia. Leaves narrower, taper-pointed, falcate, 3 or 4 inches long, 

 9 lines broad near the roundish base: approaching ^'. 7iif/ra. 



Yar. congesta. Auients short, densely flowered, scarcely exceeding the amide 

 leaves of the peduncle : capsules globose-conical, shortly pedicelled. 



Fioiii Sail Difgo County {F(d,mr) to SacraniPiito Valley anil Sierra County (Lcmmon) ; distin- 

 <;uislio(l tVouj :S. uitjiK hythe bioml coriaccou.s haves, glossy aliovu and k1iuii;oiis licneatli, and by 

 Tin; dentate scales. Tlie aniiiij,'uous variety anijusUfolia was colieeted l)y Ucv. E. L. (•ircnc near 

 Ynka. "An erect lyraniidal tree, 15 to 50 feet liii^h, f,'ro\vinf,' on bottom lands near stieams : 

 trunk strai'dit, a loot or two in diameter, witli lissured dark brown baik." — 7V. ('. L. Andcrwn. 



* * I'etlules (/haul til (I)'. 



3. S. lasiandra, l>enth. Leaves lanceolate, tajier-pointed, attenuate or round- 

 ish at base, smooth, paler or glaucous beneath, margin closely and sharply serrate ; 

 petioles glandular at the upper end ; stijjides semilunar, glandular-serrate, often 

 large and cons^jicuous, sometimes small or deciduous : aments leafy-peduncled : 

 scales yellowish, thin, more or less dentate, hairy at base or in the fenutle 

 anient somewhat glabrous: stamens 5 or more: capsules lanceolate: style short; 

 stigmas bifid. — PI. llartw. 33G. «S'. J/oJfiaaiiiiiana, Hook. & Arn. l>ot. J>eechey, 

 159. aS". speciosa, Xutt. Sylva, i. 5S, t. 17. >S'. ar^/uta & luncij'uHa, Andersson in 

 DC. Pro.lr. xvi'-. 2()G. 



Var. typica. Leaves lineardanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at base : stiptdcs 

 small: scales of tlie Jlexuose staminate anient deeply and irregularly glandular- 

 dentate : " brauchlets red and leaves darker." — A', an/nta, var. intu'dmlra, Aiideis. 1. c. 



Yar. lancifolia, liebb. Leaves tai»ering regularly iVom near the roundish or sub- 

 cordate base to a long attenuate point (sometimes f) to 7 inches long and 2 inches 

 wide) ; petioles very glamlular ; stipides on vigorous young shoots large and glandu- 

 lar-seri-ate, on llowering branches small ami (leciduous : scales in the female anient 

 linear, acute, somewhat glabrous, in the male broader, hirsute, and dentate as in tlu^ 

 narrow-leaved forms. — .S'. lunci/ulla, Anders. Sal. IMonogr. 34, lig. 23. A', liicldn, 

 var. macrophf/Ua, Anders, in DC. Prodr. xvi'^. 20"), ex descr. 



Var. Fendleriana, Lebb. Staminate aments thick, densely flowered, on shorter 

 and less leafy i)eiluncles : leaves more coriaceous in texture and green both side.s. — 

 S. pentandra, var. caiuhdn, Nutt. Sylva, i. Gl,t. 18. S. Fendleriana, Anders. Sal. 

 Lor. -Am. 115. S.an/tda, Anders. Sal. Monogr. 32, fig. 22. 



Sacramento Valley and northward to Britisli Columbia ; the var. Faidlrriana in tbe Sierni 

 Nevada (Mrs. R. M. Anslin, Lcmmon) ; also New Mexico {Fcndlcf) and Colorado. A tree 2(» 

 to CO ieet high, growing along streams: "bark lissnre<l, grayish brown on tlie trunks of old 

 trees ; bi-anchlets shining yellow, drooiiing: the somewhat straggling stem .sen.ls iip long branches 

 bearing large leaves near the top, making the tree top-heavy."— /V. Amirrsoa. Nuttall de- 

 scribes the "summit" of the tree as "tufted and .spreading." Very near A', //((-/(/(t (especially 

 the var. Fcndhriano), but the leaves are rather tliinner in texture, usually narrower, the male as 

 well as the female aments leafy-peduneled, and tbe scales distinctly dentate. The Pacific Coast 

 forms have been sulidivide.l into two sup].oseil species, based uj-on minute elinracters .irawn from 

 the length of the i.edicels, form of the scales, caiisiiles. stipules, etc., but these prove to be very 

 unreliable and do not always <(.rrespon<l with each other nor witb the form of leaf assigned to 

 each species respectively. 



§ 2. Stamens 2 : scales pallid, somewhat deciduous : aments home on short lat- 

 eral leaf 11 branches, often clustered: leaoes linear to lanceolate, remotehj 

 denticuiate or entire. Shi-uhs. Species e.rceedin-(jlij variable and appar- 

 ently p)assing into each other. 

 4. S. longifolia, INLihl. Leaves varying from linear to lanceolate, long-acumi- 

 nate, tapering at base, sessile or nearly so, 3 or 4 inches long ami 1 to (usually 2 



