Hakubook of Teees of the ^N^orthekn States and Canada. 77 



A small tree, rarely over ,'5i) ft. in height or 

 H or 10 in. in thickness of trunk, which is 

 vested in a dark brown bark rough with 

 prominent firm 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 

 streams, where its dark colored bark and small 

 crooked trunks are found so close to the rush- 

 ing waters that they are often bruised and 

 battered by the passing flood-wood, while the 

 Black Willow is found along the banks of still 

 flowing streams of the bottom-lands, where the 

 waters are less turbulent. Its geographic 

 range is not yet well determined. 



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

 reddish brown color with thin nearly white 

 sap-wood. - 



Leaves involute in the bud, 4-7 in. lon^. lancp- 

 olate to ovate-lanceolate, cuneate or rounded and 

 the largest leaves sometimes cordate at base, lon"?- 

 pointed, finely and unequally serrate, glabrous 

 bright green above, somewhat pubescent and 

 whitish beneath : the foliaceous stipules reniform, 

 often 1/2 in. loni; : petioles short, without glands : 

 winter buds small, brown, lustrous, branchlets 

 hcary pubescent. Floicefs: aments terminal on 

 leafy branchlets, ^»-4 in. long ; scales ovate, yellow, 

 obtuse, villous ; stamens 3-7 with filaments hairy 

 at base and yellow anthers ; ovary long-stalked 

 with nearly sessile stigmatic lobes. Fruit capsules 

 about 14 in. long, globose conical. 



1. Syn. Salix Wardi Eebb. Snlix occidentals 



