~ 128 SYNOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. 
SALICACE E. 
SALIX NIGRA, Marsh., var. AMYGDALOIDES, Anders. DC. Prod., 16, 2 
. 201. Fertile aments spreading, thickish; scales sparingly pilose; 
leaves ring Vv pees long and sharply attenuate-acuminate, o 
ae aleate, very smooth, gla cons beneath ; capsules long- pedivelad: 
glabrous, “Rese ibles 8. lucida.—A shrub or small tree, common 
gear the Platte —Dr. Smith ; Po or ri 
Sarix LONGIFOLIA, Muhl., var. ARGYROPHYLLA, Nutt. DOC. Prod., 
16, 2d pt., p. 214. Leaves and capsules clothed with a Silvery-shining 
tomentum, becoming glabrate with age.—Banks of the Platte, Dr. Smith ; 
B. H. Smith; Porter. Twin Lakes, Coulter. 
SALIX DISCOLOR, Muh!.—T win: Lakes, at 10,000 feet altitude, Coulter. 
SALIX LIVIDA, Wahl, var. occIpD Ge. ins rostrata, Richards.) 
say . Harbour, 522. "Saint 5 Vrain aang ‘Cou 
SALIX CHLORC PH HYLLA, Anders.—Twin ait ot Mount Lincoln, at 
11 "000 "oot altitude, Coulter 
tint CORDATA, Muhl. ae Fal & Harbour, 524. Near Denver, Coulter, 
Coulter. ANGUSTATA, Anders.—Bear Creek, 15 miles west of Denver, 
oulte 
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SALIX GLAUCA, L. DC. Prod., 16, 2d pt., p. 280. Shrub of variable 
height, often low; aments leaty- peduncled, lay thidripat thickish, rather 
dense-flower ed; scales acutish or obtuse, fulvous, darker at the apex, vil- 
lous with long w white hairs; capsules ovate-lanceolate, sitastal densely 
snowy-tomentose, searcely pedicelled; pedicel about ~ ngth of t 
nectary ; style produced, usually bifid; divisions of the mas div aft 
cate; ieaves elliptical lanceolate, mostly sen oe tid on pa sides, be- 
coming mings: a beneath, veiny, e 
Var. SERICEA, Anders. Leaves gibi with ‘ava ae broadly oval, 
ovate, ehenia or lanceoiate, acute or obtuse, 1/-2/ lot “ Subalpine,” 
Hall & Harbour,523. Gray’s Peak, Dr. Smith. Mount ‘Lineal, at 13,000 
feet altitude and White House Mountain, Coulter. South Park, Porter. 
Var. PULLATA, Anders. Leaves. smoother, glaucous beneath.—Ute 
Pass and South Park, Porter. Mount Elbert near Twin Lakes, at 12,000 
feet a, pity Sierra Madre Range, Coulter. 
SALIX DESERTORUM, Richards. DC. Prod.,16,2d pt., p.281. Low, 2°-3° 
high; aments See short, 6” long, subglobose, dense-flowered ; ’scales 
pale ro e ova i 
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woolly, sessile; style 2-parted, brown; leaves narrowly oblong, 6-12" 
in length, 2’’-4” wide, obtusish, rigid, more or less white-tomentose be- 
neath, midrib promine ent, yellow; staminate aments very small, 2/’-4” 
jong. os Maous Elbert, near Twin Lakes, Porter. 
SALIX ARCTICA , Pall, var. BROWNEI, Anders. DC. Prod.,16,2d ork 
Dwart, branches decumbent and much spreading; leaves s spat 
terminal, short, 6-8” long, on long, lea uncles; capsul ostly 
grayish-tomentose; style elon as Sahtee nearly smooth or hairy, e2- 
tire 2 m tely serrulate ny beneath.—Hall & Her- 
; pale and very ve 
bour, 520; Parry. Gray’s Peak, Dr. ‘Smith. White House Mountain, 2t 
15; 000 feet altitude, Coulter. 
