FURRY WILLOW 



The plant loves water and prefers locations that are 

 frequently submerged. The roots form large tangled 

 masses on the sides of streams, and are much larger 

 than the stems proceeding from them. 



FURRY WILLOW 



Sdlix adcuophylla. 



Straggling shrub, three to seven feet high, found in the sand 

 of lake shores and river banks. Ranges from Labrador to On- 

 tario, southward to Pennsylvania and Illinois. Hybridizes with 

 Salix cordata. 



Leaves. — Alternate, simple, one to two inches long, ovate, 

 heart-shaped or rounded at base, finely serrulate with gland-tipped 

 teeth, acute, or short acuminate, or the lower obtuse at apex. 

 When young densely silky tomentose, the silky hairs falling away 

 from the leaves when old. Petioles stout, short, dilated at the 

 base, densely silky. Stipules ovate-cordate, obtuse serrulate, per- 

 sistent, densely silky. 



Flowers. — April, May. Catkins expanding with the leaves, 

 leafy-bracted at base, densely flowered. Staminate less than an 

 inch long ; pistillate about two inches long in fruit. Fruiting 

 capsule small, ovoid-conic, acute. 



The Furry Willow like the Broad-leaved Willow 

 loves the sands. Its common name is not misapplied, 

 for the growing shoot is densely covered — twigs, 

 petioles, stipules, and opening leaves — with a furry 

 white coat of woolly hairs which give a grayish green 

 aspect to the bush. In order to hold its own in adverse 

 conditions, its stems are endowed with an intense 

 vitality, and where the sand drifts over and buries 

 one, it there takes root and sends up other stems and 

 so forms clumps which in time cover the barren waste. 



The economic value of those plants of the shore that 



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