1899] BRIEFER ARTICLES ee | 
resembles in the general characters of the ament and the aspect of the 
whole plant. It differs from that species, however, in having broader 
leaves, not at all revolute nor rugose, no stipules, pedicel longer than the 
gland, style and stigmas relatively short. S. paradoxa Kunth differs 
from this species in having “capsule hir- 
sute longe pedicellate, stylo nullo.” — 
S. cana Mart. & Gal.-—Tree 5-7™ 
high: twigs scantily canescent, older 
1.—Salix Pringlei. a young Fic, 2.—Salix cana Mart. & Gal. 
th scale and gland; mature 8 flower; 6 young capsule; ¢ mature 
leaf, capsule, dehisced ; d leaf. 
Fic. 
Capsule, wi 
Capsule ; ¢ 
shoots stout blac 
| k and glabrous: leaves in vernation densely floccu- 
ent tomentose, b 
above, glay coming glabrous or nearly so when mature, green 
apex - Cous and Pyominently veined beneath, obovate or elliptical, 
SNP cane short acuminate, acute or rather abruptly contracted 
: aire, largest 6™ long by 2™ wide; petioles hairy, 5™" long; 
mens — = wanting : staminate aments large (3 by 1°); sta- 
Ciliate - > aments hairy below ; scale obovate, apical half dark brown, 
i gland large, one half as long as the scale: mature pistillate 
aments large (7™ sie : : oe 
7™ by 2"), nearl sessile ; peduncle at maturity only 1 
ong and bearing fo y Pp 
full grown capsule (3™ 
Stipul 
" long) ovate-conical, glabrous, minutely rough- 
airy, gland less than one-half the length of the 
8, slightly longer than the pedicel; style short 
about twi capsule aborted at anthesis indicates that the bract is then 
& ~ length of the pedicel. 
reeaal description of this species, as given in Bu//. Acad. 
