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SELECTED WESTERN FLORA 



1. SALIX. Willow. 



Sterile flowers generally of 2 more or less distinct stamens, with 

 1 or 2 small glands at the base ; fertile flowers a single pistil with 2 

 stigmas "or one 2-lobed stigma and a gland at the base. Trees or 

 shrubs with long, supple branches, long, pointed and entire leaves, 

 and catkins usually appearing before the leaves. 



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Fig. 15. — Catkins of a Willow. 



A staminate flower is shown at s, and 

 a pistillate flower at p. The stami- 

 nate" and pistillate are on different 

 plants. 



Fig. 10. — Sallx 

 amygdaloides. 



II 



Fig. it. — 

 Salix longi- 

 folia. 



1. S. amygdaloides, Anders. Peach-leaved Willow. 



Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, pale beneath, petioles slender, 

 stipules deciduous ; fertile catkins loose in fruit. A large, rough-barked tree'. 

 Sandy shores, Man.-Alta. 



2. S. longifdlia, Muhl. Sand Bar Willow. 



Leaves long and narrow, tapering at each end, more or less hairy when 

 young, smooth and green when older; stipules small, deciduous; catkins 

 slender, usually clustered at the ends of the branches. A shrub spreading 

 extensively from the roots, forming dense thickets. Sandy shores or alluvial 

 flats, Man.-Alta. 



3. S. Candida, Flilggo. Sage Willow. 



Leaves oblong to lanceolate, somewhat rigid, downy above when young 

 and densely tomentose beneath, the margin almost entire and turned under ; 

 catkins cylindrical, densely flowered; style and stamens red; capsule densely 

 white-woolly. A low shrub with hoary leaves, the young shoots white- 

 woolly, becoming red when older. Cold bogs, Man.-Alta. 



