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Twigs lithe, very brittle, nearly 
smooth, brown or olive green to light 
gray. 
Epidermis thin, scaling. 
Buds brown, oblong, blunt, notched 
at apex, inner membrane adherent. 
Lenticels circular, numerous, prom- 
inent, brown or cinnamon color. 
Leaves lanceolate, equilateral, base 
and apex acute ; primary veins strong, 
prominent beneath and looping very 
regularly; upper side very dark 
green, under side subglaucous, coated 
with short silvery hairs; thin, drying 
black, and mostly affected with leaf 
galls; young leaves without color; 
serrulate, * : 
Stipules none. 
Aments about 1 inch long, with 2 
to 5 leaflets, not tufted at base ; 
Scales short, broadly rounded, upper 
half black and clothed with rather 
stiff white hairs, 
—— entirely free; anthers 
red, 
Capsules short, oblong, blunt, 
clothed with short silvery hairs, burst- 
ng early; pedicel and style short; 
style 4-parted. 
Blooming probably a week earlier. 
A fixed, rigid species, with constant 
characters, 
SALIX CORDATA X SERICEA 399 
Tough, heavy, tomentose, blackish 
or blotched, changing to red or 
yellowish green and dark green. 
Thick, firm, unbroken, not scaling. 
Larger, ovate or wedge acute or the 
point flat, not notched, tomentose, 
then bright red or brown, inner 
membrane separating, being often 
carried to apex of ament. 
Oval, relatively few, not prominent, 
color the same. 
Apparently two forms: (1) long 
lance acuminate, (2) oblong-lanceo- 
late, narrow or broad, cuspidate- 
thick, inequilateral, 
above with a tinge of yellow, glaucous 
or subglaucous beneath; primaries 
relatively weak and looping only 
towards apex ; drying yellowish green 
or light brown; young leaves downy 
above, hairy beneath, reddish. 
Large, auriculate or reniform, 
obtuse (rarely acute), persistent. 
Staminate 1.5 to 2 inches long, 
pistillate 2 to 4 inches, with 2 or 3 
leaflets, tufted at base with long 
white hairs; scales narrower, oblong, 
obtuse to acute, light to dark brown, 
with softer more woolly hairs; gland 
longer. 
Mostly more or less adnate; anthers 
yellow. 
Mostly with subrhomboid, some- 
what flattish base and narrowing to a 
beak of about equal length, or ovoid 
conical, not maturing so early ; style 
long or medium, usually 4-lobed. 
Variable with change of locality, 
and in same locality. 
