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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



Hooker Willow. 

 Salix hookeriana Barratt in Hooker. 



DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS. 



The Hooker willow is not known by this name in its native habitat, but simply 



Fig. 98. — Salix hookeriana. 

 as " willow." It varies from a sprawling shrub to a cluster of trunks from 12 



a This name is commonly credited to Hooker, who published it thus : "Salix hookeriana 

 Barratt mst." — Barratt having described and named the tree. Hooker obviously intended 





