SALICINEiE 



GOLDEN OSIER, Sa/Lv alba, V. vitellina. 



Osier grounds, lakes-sides. April, INIay. The yellow and red bark makes 

 this a very effective shrub in winter, especially when planted in masses. To 

 obtain the brightest colours the plants should be cut back in February, thus 

 encouraging a growth of vigorous shoots. 



Floivers dioecious ; Scales linear-lanceolate, acute, fringed at base, longer than 

 pistil ; Ovary sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth. 



Leaves lanceolate, acute, cartilaginous, serrate, smooth above, glaucous and 

 somewhat silky beneath ; stipules minute, lanceolate, smooth, deciduous. 



A deciduous shrub, cultivated as an Osier ; or tree, 30-40 ft. ; Tivigs pliable, 

 smooth, polished, bright golden-yellow or reddish ; older branches orange ; Bzids 

 small, elongated, flat, silky. 



Considered by some to be a distinct species. Specific name from L. vitcllus, 

 yolk of an egg, in reference to yellow bark. 



BUSHY WILLOW, Salix Arbuscula. 



Scotch mountains. .Tune, July. 



Flowers di(Ecious, not specially fragrant, appearing before or just after leaves 

 open, lateral, sessile, or on leafy peduncles ; Male catkins ^—1 in. long, ),-?, in. 

 diam. ; Stamens 2, free, glabrous, anthers orange, scales obtuse, spathulate, 

 yellowish to rusty-red, ciliate ; Females, Ovary ovoid-conic, tomentose, pedicel 

 shorter than gland, style long, stigmas often divided, filiform ; Fruit a capsule, 

 sessile, conical, reddish, tomentose, style long, deeply cleft, stigmas thick, 

 notched. 



Leaves alternate, very variable, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, finely 



glandular-serrated, acute or aciuninate, glabrous, dark green and shining above, 



pale and glaucous beneath, silky wlien young, veins prominent, midrib yellow, 



J-1.', in. long, \-^ in. broad, petiole short. iVutuum tint yellow. 



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