Handbook ok Trees of the Xoktiikkat States 



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Tlie Black Willow is the largest and most 

 abundant of the American Wilkiws, sonietiuii's 

 in the forest attaining a height of 1-20 ft. with 

 trunk :i or 4 ft. in diameter, but these dimen- 

 sions are attained only under most favorable 

 conditions and it is usually a tree of less than 

 lialf the dimensions above mentioned. When 

 isolated it develops a rather irregular broad 

 or round-topped head with fine branchlets and 

 drooping yellow-green foliage. It comnioidy 

 sends u[> clusters of crooked or inclined truidvS 

 from a connnon base. It is a tree of very wide 

 distribution, skirting the low banks of streams 

 and lake shores from the Atlantic nearly to 

 the Pacific. It is very alinndant in the ^lis- 

 sissippi valley and throughout the Atl:iidir 

 states, and attains its hngi'st diiMeusioiis in 

 southern Illinois and in tlie t'oloradu Itivcr 

 valley in Texas. 



The light soft wood is said to check badly 



in drying and is little useil sa\c for fuel and 



for cliarcoal. A euluc foot wlicn absolulcly 



dry weighs 27.77 Ibs.i Tlie bark is rii-h in 



tanning and is uscd in domestic practii-e in 



the licatniciit of fevers. 



],,an!i inv.ilntc iu llic lni.l, 1 

 tiliM's I'niralc ( inarlvi'dly so in \-; 

 letm' attcniuitc often with curv'cd 

 wcdgc-sluiped or roundrd at basi 

 plaluMus liglit green aln)\<'. sotik 

 soraotimcs pnt>escent on the \('i 

 with the very short .glandh'ss pi'iii 

 small, about l^ in. long. !'h>ir< r.' 

 the leaves; araents l-'^ in. hmg, hTininal on sboi-t 

 leafy branchlets: scah-s yi'lltn^-. rcnnded at aprx. 

 hairy on inner surface; slaincns :',-7 with ftlamcnts 

 hairy at liase ; orary Inna-oyuid. stalked, and witb 

 thick nearly sessile' stigmas. Fruit < .Tnne-.rnly i ; 

 cnpsiiles ovoid, gradualh' naia-owing abo\-c tbc 

 middle, about Vs in. long, slnu'l-sl alked. glabrous. 

 8. iiiiira falf/ifa (Prushl Torr. is a foi-m, witb 

 n.nrniwer .nnd more falenle le;i\-es green Imlb 

 sides, i-anging from iMnssaelnisef ts to Oliio ami 

 Florida. 



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