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brown buds, and the lowest leaves on the branches broadly obovate, very obtuse* 

 (9. decipiens, Hqffin ) Var. RUSSELLIANA. has the leaves long and bright, 

 strongly sen-ate ; the younger ones, and upper branches of the annual shoots, 

 silky-downy towards autumn; stipules large and taper-pointed. (S. Russelli- 

 ana, Smith.) A tall and handsome tree, with smooth polished branches ; culti- 

 vated for basket-work. (Adv. from Eu.) 



16. S. nigra, Marshall. (BLACK WILLOW.) Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 

 pointed and tapering at each end, serrate, smooth (except on the petioles and 

 midrib) and green on both sides ; stipules small, deciduous ; glands of the sterile 

 flowers 2, large and deeply 2-3 cleft; stamens 4-6, often but 3 in the upper 

 scales. (S. ambigua, Pursh.) Var. FALCATA has the leaves elongated, scytlie- 

 shaped, and the stipules large, broadly lunar, reflexed. (S. falcata, Pursh. S. 

 Purshiana, Spreng. S. ligustrina, Michx. /.) Tree 15 -25 high, with a 

 rough black bark ; frequent on the margins of streams, especially southward. 



17. S. llicida, Muhl. (SHINING WILLOW.) Leaves ovate-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate and narrow with a long tapering point, smooth and sJuning on both sides, ser- 

 rate; stipules oblong, toothed; stamens commonly 5. Overflowed banks of 

 streams ; rather common. A beautiful species, sometimes flowering at the 

 height of 3, sometimes becoming a small bushy tree of 12- 15. 



S. BABYLONICA, Tourn. (WEEPING WILLOW), belongs to this section, and 

 is much cultivated for ornament. Only the fertile plant is known in the United 

 States. There is also a remarkable variety of it with curled or annular leaves 

 (S. annularis, Forbes), known in gardens as the KING-LEAVED or HOOP Wiir 



LOW. 



# # # Ovary stalked, hairy : stamens 2. 



18. S. longifdlia, Muhl. (LONG-LEAVED WILLOW.) Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, very long, tapering at each end, nearly sessile, remotely denticulate with 

 projecting teeth, clothed with gray hairs when young, at length nearly smooth ; 

 stipules small, lanceolate, toothed ; scaly liairs at the base often glandular-toothed 

 at the top in the sterile catkins ; gland long, in the sterile flowers sometimes 

 deeply 2 - 3-cleft ; in the fertile longer than the short stalk of the ovary ; stigma* 

 very large, sessile. New England and Penn. to Kentucky and northward. 

 Varying in height from 2 - 20 ; the stems and branches often prostrate, root- 

 ing extensively in sandy river-banks. 



$ 5. Catkins peduncled, borne on the lateral (or sometimes the terminal) leafy branches 

 of the season, appearing in June : stipules deciduous or none : scales persistent. 

 Small shrubs, icith underground spreading stems, sending up short erect or prostrate 

 branches. 



19. S. pedicdlariS, Pursh. (STALK-FRUITED WILLOW.) Leaves 

 elliptic-obovate, obtuse or somewhat pointed, entire, smooth on both sides, retic- 

 ulately veined and rather glaucous beneath ; fertile catkins loose and few-flow- 

 ered ; ovary smooth, on a stalk twice the length of the nearly smooth greenish-yellow 

 scale ; stamens 2. Cold swamps, New England to Wisconsin and northward. 

 An upright shrub, l-3 high, with leaves l'-lj' long, somewhat coriaceous 

 when mature. Catkins |' long : pods reddish-green, veined with purple 



