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Distribution. Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to Pennsyl- 
vania, northern Ohio and Illinois and west to Nebraska. Schneck 
reports it as ‘common along streams” in the lower Wabash Valley. 
If the reports are correct the range of the species is extended 
from the northern part of Ohio southward to southern Indiana. It 
is found in swamps and on the borders of lakes and streams. In 
our area it is a small tree, usually less than 1 dm. (4 inches) in dia- 
meter. In text books it is called shiny willow. 
The published records of the distribution are: Clark (Baird and 
Taylor); Clay (Wilson); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne 
(Phinney); Gibson (Schneck); Hamilton (Wilson); Knox (Ridgway) ; 
Lake (Hill); Marion (Wilson); Miami (Gorby); Noble (Van Gorder) ; 
Posey (Schneck); Putnam (Wilson); Steuben (Bradner). 
Additional records are: Laporte, Noble, Steuben and Wells 
(Deam). 
Economic uses. Too rare and small to be of economic use. 
4, Salix alba Linneus. Writtow. Plate 18. Bark on old 
trunks rough, thick, coarsely ridged, gray to brown; twigs smooth; 
winter buds 5-6 mm. (14 inch) long; narrowly ovoid, smooth and 
blunt; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5-13 em. (2-5 inches) 
long, long-pointed, narrowed at the base, hairy on both surfaces 
when young, becoming smooth or nearly so above at maturity, 
bright green above, paler or glaucous and persistently hairy be- 
neath; petioles 4-8 mm. (¢—% inch) long usually without glands, 
sometimes bearing a few near the base; flowers appear in April or 
May. 
Variety vitellina (Linnzeus) Koch, with yellow twigs, mature 
leaves glabrous above and whitish beneath, is the common form in 
our area. 
Distribution. Introduced from Europe and now naturalized in 
many parts of the State. It is one of the largest of the genus and 
it is not uncommon to see trees in cultivation that are a meter (39 
inches) in diameter. 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Clark 
(Baird and ‘Yaylor) and (Smith); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and 
Wayne (Phinney); Franklin (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Ham- 
ilton (Wilson); Jefferson (Coulter) and (Young); Kosciusko (Scott); 
Marion (Wilson); Noble (Van Gorder); Posey (Schneck); Putnam 
(MacDougal); Steuben (Bradner); Vigo (Blatchley). 
Additional records are: Putnam (Grimes); Tippecanoe (Coul- 
ter); Posey and Wells (Deam). 
