328 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Serrunate Aunus. Common Alder. Candle Alder. 
Stem 3-10 or 12 feet high, and half = inch -1 or 2 inches in diameter, with crooked 
and rather rigid branches. Leaves 2-4 inches long, strongly nerved, sub-plicate, thick 
and subcoriaceous, smoothish ; petioles a oak half an inch long. Staminate aments one and 
a half to near 3 inches long, cylindrical, eee, rape pendulous and sub- fasciculate 
hear ag ends of the branches ; scales reddish-brow anthers yellow. 
half an inch to Bos ws inch long, oblong, — id, da dark sjarsta -brown, persistent. hort 
lateral branches belo in flower, bristled with the dav pein 
ted s' 
pramps and margins of rivulets : throughout the United States. Fl. March-April. 
Obs. This alien § is of little or no value,—and is only noticeable as a 
uent intruder in swampy meadows, and along rivulets,—where, if 
neglected, the bushy growth soon gives ‘the e premises a sloy enly appear- 
is true, the Alders often + make a comfortable shade for the 
rivul the 
ped in the little pools of our ets; but tidy farmer 
likes to keep even the margins iin reams clear 
e kled (A. in uid.) is found in simi 
bushes. S er cana, W similar 
situations in New-England and northward. It is distinguished from the 
Common Alder by the = ed appearance of its bark, and the whitened 
under surface of its lea 
Orper LXX. SALICA’CEA, (Wittow Famty.) 
Trees or shrubs, with psn simple leaves, persistent and leaf-like or scaly and deciduous 
eis fat diacine iecious flowers in aments with 1-flowered bracts. Cal: and corolla none. Sta- 
y. Ovary 1- called or pews aoe 2-celled , many- ovuled ; styles 2, past! short, 
nae Percy eat fe ; stigmas 2 -lobed. Fruit a 2: valyed pod with num rous seeds, 
clothed with a long silky do 
1. SA’LIX, Tournef. Wuitow. 
[The ancient classical name.] 
Aments with the scales or bracts entire. Sr Serban Fa A - 6 stamens 
a Inet raring sais the isceas lateral and sessile: stamens 2. 
. S. viwina’iis, LZ. Leaves linear lanceolate, very long and taper- 
cistet white and satiny beneath ; ovary sessile, long rae narrow, 
woolly or silky. 
Osier. Basket Willow. 
_ Alarge shrub or small Soaks £06 neh bog straight and slender branches, the 
twigs yellowish and pubescent. Leaves 3 ~6 inches ong, of a satiny lustre beneath. Aments 
pepo cal ovoid, densely clothed with long silky hair. 
et meadows and cultivated. Native a baeee Fi. April. 
Obs. This species, fecthe Ueateter $e ce oe is cultivated to some 
