Okder 122.— SALICAOBA 658 



Shrub or small tree, 4 to 15f high, with long, slender, smooth, purple or yel- 

 lowish green twigs, tough and elastic, used in basket making. (S. rosmarini- 

 »lia Ph.) 

 $. rusOATA. Lva. obovate-lanoeolate, acute ; aments of a leaden hue from the 

 thinner haira. 



9 S. viminalis L. Basket Osier. Lvs. linear-lanceolate, very long, acuminate, 

 subentire, sUky-amescent beneath ; stip. minute ; branches virgate ; aments preco- 

 cious ; scales roundish, very hairy ; filaments distinct ; ova. sessile, ovoid ; sty. 

 filiform; stig. undivided, acute. — Wet meadows and margins of rivers. Sts. 10 to 

 12f high, with long, straight, slender, and flexible branches. Lva. often a foot in 

 length, narrow, covered with a snow-white pubescence beneath. Amenta very 

 hairy. May, § Eur. 



3.0 S. purpurea L. Purple 'Willow. Lvs. partly opposite, obovate-laTuxotate, 

 serrulate above, very smooth, narrowed at the base, aments cylindrical, with leafy 

 bracts at base ; scales orbicular, black ; filaments united into 1, with 2 anthars ; 

 ovary sessile, ovate-ellipUc ; sty. very short; stig. emarginate. — Low grounds, 

 river banks, and cultivated like the last for basket-makmg. Shrub 6 to lOf 

 high. Twigs very long, slender and tough, covered with a smooth, olive-oolored 

 bark. 



1]. S. rostr^ta Eichardson. Branches erect, straight, pubescent, at length 

 smootli ; Ivs. broadly or oiovate-lanceolaie, acute, subentire, at length coriaceous, 

 smooth above, glaucous-pubescent beneath ; stip. semicordate, dentate ; amenta 

 short, cylindrio, densp, the fertile ones becoming very long and loose ; scales ob- 

 long, membranous, hairy at the apex ; ova. narrow-lanceolate, silky, long-acwmi- 

 note, on very long pedicels ; sty. veiy short ; stig. lobed, the lobes bifid or entire. 

 — Shrub or small tree 8 — lOf high. Bark of the trunk dark-colored, of the 

 branches yellow. 



12 S. longifolia Muhl. Loxg-leaved Willow. Lus. linear, acuminate at each 

 end, elongated, remotely toothed, smooth, nearly of the same color on both sides ; 

 stip. lanceolate, dentate; ainents tomentous, pedunculate; sta. 2; scales flat, re- 

 tuse ; ovary short-stalked ; fii. bearded at base, twice longer than the scales. — 

 River banks from the Conn, and Ohio to Oregon and Brit. Am. It possesses a 

 remarkable power of rooting, extending itself and binding the loose sands to- 

 gether. Stems about 2f high, with brown branches and white branohlets. 



13 S. phylioifolia L. MonifTAiy Willow. Iais. ovate or lanceolate, remotely 

 repand-serrate, glabrous, glaucous beneath; stip. semicordate, oblique at apex; 

 tments bracteate, S sessile ; caps, pedicellate, conical-elongated, somewhat silky ; 

 sty. long. — White Mts. A handsome, low shrub, spreading, with broad-elliptica), 

 very smooth leaves, the margins repand-serrate. 



14 S. rdpens L. Creeping Willow. Low, creeping ; kis. obovate or lance-obo- 

 vate, aoutisli or bluntly acuminate, obscurely crmate-toolhed, glabrous and shining 

 above, sillcy-pubescent, at length glabrous and glaucous beneath, reticulate both 

 sides ; slip, oblong, very caducous ; aments short, few-flowered, very silky ; stam. 

 2 ; ovary silky, pedicellate. — Alpine summits White Mts. and northward. Sts. a 

 few inches above ground. Lvs. 8 to 12" by 4 to 6", petioles 3 to 4", clothed 

 with silky pubescence when young, very smooth when old. 



15 S. pedicill^ris Ph. I/os. elliptic-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, rather obtuse 

 at base, entire, both sides glabrous, beneath slightly glaucous and reticulate- 

 veined; aments pedunculate; cap.i ovate-conic, glabrous, long-pedicellate; scales 

 short, obtuse, a little hairy ; sty. very short ; lobes of the stigma cleft. — ^Moantain 

 swamps, N. Eng. and N. Y. A low and elegant shrub, with rather a virgate 

 habit, remarkable for its entire smoothness. On mountauas it is more straggSng. 

 Lvs. light, yellowish green, ] to 2' long, very entire. (S. myrtilloidea Tucker.) 



16. S. Uva-ursi Ph. Z/vs. elliptical or obovate, obtuse at each end, glandular- 

 denticulate, smooth above, glaucous-smoothish beneath, sUky- villous when young ; 

 aments pedunculate, cylindric, dense ; caps, ovate-conic, briefly pedicellate, glabrous- 

 scales obovate, black, silky ; stam. one; stig. bifid, lobes at length cleft. — White 

 Mts. N. H. A low or prostrate shrub. Lvs. 3 to 5" by 2 to 3". Aments 6". 



17 S. herbacea L. Herb Willow. Arotip Willow. Sioarf; lvs. orbicuUir, 

 cordate, sen ate, glabrous, veiny; aments f,w-flowered, sessile; scales small, glab- 



