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length; stipules orbicular-cordate, coarsely glandular-serrate, pubescent. Flowers: aments 

 pubescent terminal on leafy pubescent branchlets, narrow-cylindric, l'-2' long; scales 

 linear-oblanceolate, acute, yellow, hoary tomentose; stamens 3-5; filaments villose toward 

 the base; ovary ovoid-conic, gradually narrowed to the acuminate apex, pubescent or 

 glabrous; style distinct, 2-lobed. Fruit ovoid, acute, light reddish brown, glabrous or 

 pubescent, |' long; pedicels glabrous or rarely pubescent, iV~l' i n length. 



A tree, 25-50 high, with slender light orange-colored or grayish glabrous or pubescent 

 easily separable branchlets. Bark rough, thick, deeply furrowed, sometimes nearly black. 



Distribution. River banks; Reed Creek, Shasta County, and Red Bluff, Tehama 

 County, California, southward in the interior valleys and on the western foothills of the 

 Sierra Nevada to the mountain valleys in the southern part of the state, and to north- 

 ern Lower California ; eastward through central and southern Arizona; in southeastern 

 Nevada; through southern New Mexico to western Texas (El Paso, El Paso County, and 

 Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County) ; and southward into northern Mexico. 



3. Salix Harbisonii Schn. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, narrow-elliptic or rarely obovate-lanceolate, acute or short- 

 acuminate, obtusely or acutely cuneate at the base, and finely glandular dentate; when the 

 flowers open more or less pubescent especially below or glabrous, and at maturity green on 



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the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, glabrous, 4' or 5' long, f ' broad; petioles villose 

 early in the season, becoming glabrous, \' in length, minutely glandular at apex; stipules 

 wanting or minute, semicordate, acute, pubescent on vigorous leading branches and some- 

 times \' long. Flowers: aments terminal on leafy branchlets, 2|'-3' in length, their rachis 

 villose-pubescent ; scales ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or acute; stamens usually 5-7, rarely 

 3-9; filaments densely villose; ovary ovoid, long-acuminate, glabrous, long-stalked; style 

 short, distinct, 2-lobed. Fruit acuminate and long-pointed, acute at base, \ f long and 

 about, as long as its pedicel. 



A tree, 30-50 high, with a trunk 10' or 12' in diameter, with often pendulous branches, 

 and slender branchlets more or less densely pubescent or tomentose or nearly glabrous 

 when they first appear, becoming glabrous and dark reddish purple in their second season, 



