Handbook of Teej:.s of the Noetheen States and Canad.a 



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A small tree, rarely ovor 30 ft. in height or 

 S or 10 ill. in thiekiifss of trunk, which is 

 \t'sttMl ill a dark brown bark rough with 

 liromineiit lirui ridges. It is often found fruit- 

 ing as a shrub. It differs from the Black 

 Willow in distribution in that it is found more 

 along the rocky or gravelly banks or beds of 

 stir:iiii-<. where it^ ihuk ciiloicd bark and small 

 crooked trunks are found so close to the rush- 

 ing waters that they are often bruised and 

 battered by the passing Hood -wood, while the 

 Black Willow is found along the banks of still 

 lliiwing streams of the bol toni-lands, where the 

 waters are less turbulent. Its geographic 

 range is not yet \ve]\ determined. 



Its wood is light, soft, not strong and of a 

 reddish brown color with thin nearly white 

 sa|)-wood.- 



/.(Yfiv.s involute in the liud. 4-7 in. long, lance- 

 olafc til M\nio-iancoolatc, cuneate or rounded and 

 the lai'gi'st Ii'aves sometimes cordate at base, lon'.;- 

 poiuted, fini'lv and iin(-inially si'ri-ate, glalirons 

 bright gi'ci'n ahovr, sumewliat puhesccnt and 

 whitish linncalh ; dii' rnliarccms stipules renifiirra, 

 often Vj in. Nav,' : iidiolrs slic.rt, without Rlands : 

 winter laids small, Inown, insll-otls. hranclilcl s 

 Imary pnlii'secnt. l-l'nrrr^: amiails lerniinal on 

 leafy la'anclili'ls. :\-\ in. Inn',': scales ovali', yrllow, 

 dlOusi'. villnii.s: slamens ;',-7 wilh filaments liairy 

 at \:;\!ii- ami yllnw anllirrs: ovary lonE-stalked 

 wiih nrarly s.'Ssile slimaalic liilies. Fruit capsules 

 atamt \i in. long, glohusc cfaiical. 



1. Syn. i<iiVi.t W'di-ili I'.elih. .s'(i;i.r ucciiliiitalis 

 Koch. 



