118 Eleventh Annual Report 



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 Linnaeus. Willow. Plate 18. Bark on old 

 trunks rough, thick, coarsely ridged, gray to brown; twigs smooth; 

 winter buds 5-6 mm. (}4 inch) long; narrowly ovoid, smooth and 

 blunt; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5-13 cm. (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. (e-s inch) long usually without glands, 

 sometimes bearing a few near the base; flowers appear in April or 

 May. 



Variety vitellina (Linnaeus) 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 Taylor) 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). 



