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and easily separable at the joints; often only a large shrub. Bark thick, deeply furrowed, 

 dark red-brown, separating on the surface into small appressed scales. 



Distribution. River banks and the borders of swamps ; Dismal Swamp, Norfolk County, 

 Virginia; near Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina; common in the coast region of 

 South Carolina and Georgia, extending up the Savannah River at least as far as Augusta, 

 Richmond County, and through southern Georgia to the valley of the Flint River; swamps 

 near Jacksonville, Duval County, and in the neighborhood of Apalachicola, Florida. 



4. Salix amygdaloides Anders. Peach Willow. Almond Willow. 

 Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, frequently falcate, gradually or abruptly nar- 

 rowed into a long slender point, cuneate or gradually rounded and often unequal at base, 

 finely serrate, slightly puberulous when they unfold, becoming at maturity thin and firm 

 in texture, light green and lustrous above, pale and glaucous below, 2|'-4' long, f'-lj' 

 wide, with a stout yellow or orange-colored midrib, prominent veins and reticulate veinlets; 

 petioles slender, nearly terete |'-f in length; stipules reniform, serrate, often \' broad on 

 vigorous shoots, usually caducous. Flowers: aments on leafy branchlets, elongated, cylin- 

 dric, slender, arcuate, stalked, pubescent or tomentose, 2'-3' long; scales yellow, sparingly 

 villose on the outer, densely villose on the inner face, the staminate broadly ovate, rounded 



Fig. 137 



at the apex, the pistillate oblong-obovate, narrower, caducous ; stamens 5-9, with free fila- 

 ments slightly hairy at the base; ovary oblong-conic, long-stalked, glabrous, with a short 

 style and emarginate stigmas. Fruit globose-conic, light reddish yellow, about \' in length. 



A tree, sometimes 60-70 high, with a single straight or slightly inclining trunk rarely 

 more than 2 in diameter, straight ascending branches, and slender glabrous or rarely 

 pilose (f. pilosiuscula Schn.) branchlets marked with scattered pale lenticels, dark orange 

 color or red-brown and lustrous, becoming in their first winter light orange-brown. Win- 

 ter-buds broadly ovoid, gibbous, dark chestnut-brown, very lustrous above the middle, 

 light orange-brown below, $' long. Bark |'-f thick, brown somewhat tinged with red, 

 and divided by irregular fissures into flat connected ridges separating on the surface into 

 thick plate-like scales. Wood light, soft, close-grained, light brown, with thick nearly 

 white sap wood. 



Distribution. Banks of streams; Province of Quebec from the neighborhood of Montreal 

 to Winnipeg, and along the fiftieth degree of north latitude to southeastern British Colum- 

 bia, and to central New York, along the southern shores of Lake Erie, and through northern 

 Ohio to northern Indiana, southwestern Illinois, northern and central Missouri, and to 



