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when they first appear, becoming light orange or yellow-brown and lustrous. Bark thick, 

 pale yellow-brown, deeply furrowed, the surface sometimes separating into long plate-like 

 scales. 



Fig. 134 



Distribution. River banks, central and western Texas from Grayson and Dallas Coun- 

 ties and the lower valley of the Brazos River to the valleys of the San Antonio and upper 

 Guadalupe Rivers; in Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. 



2. Salix Gooddingii Ball. 

 Salix vallicola Britt. 



Leaves lanceolate to narrow elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, acutely cuneate at 

 base, finely glandular-serrate, often slightly falcate, silky pubescent when they unfold es- 

 pecially below, glabrous and dull green at maturity, l^'-S' long,~y' |' wide, or on vigorous 

 shoots 5' or 6' long and f wide; petioles pubescent, usually becoming glabrous, i'-j' in 



Fig. 135 



