Wright's Willow 



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glandular-tipped teeth, somewhat hairy on 

 both sides when unfolding, soon becoming 

 smooth and about the same shade of green 

 above and beneath; they are from 5 to 12 

 cm. long, from 7 to 12 mm. wide, and their 

 hairy stalks are 4 to 6 mm. long; their 

 stipules are 10 mm. long or less, lanceo- 

 late, glandular- toothed, and fall away early 

 in the season. The catkins are 2.5 to 5 

 cm. long, borne at the ends of short, leafy 

 branches of the season, and flower as the 

 leaves unfold in March or April; their axes 

 are very hairy, and their almost woolly scales 

 are obovate or rounded; the staminate 

 flowers have from 5 to 11 stamens with 

 separate filaments hairy toward the base; ^i^- 141. — r)udley's Willow, 



the pistillate flowers have a stalked ovary with a very short style and lobed stig- 

 mas. The capsule is ovoid, smooth, 4 or 5 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 times as long as 

 its stalk. 



This is the largest species of willow native in southern California. 



3. WRIGHT'S WILLOW— SalixWrightuAndersson 



FtG. 142. — Wright's Willow. 



Wright's willow occurs 

 abundantly in wet soil, es- 

 pecially along rivers and 

 streams, from Texas to south- 

 em Arizona and through ad- 

 jacent Mexico. The tree 

 closely resembles the Black 

 willow in botanical charac- 

 ters, and has been rega;"ded 

 by many authors as a variety 

 of that species, and it has also 

 been mistaken, at least in 

 part, for the Cuban SdLix oc- 

 cidentalis Koch. 



The bark is rough and 

 flaky; the young twigs are 

 smooth or shghtly hairy, and 

 yellow to yellow-green, be- 

 coming brown, and this yellow 

 tint of the branchlets seems 



