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The shining willow (Salix lucida) grows by the first 

 pond on the Chebacco avenue, and with the silky 

 willow (Salix sericea) by the brook on the Burley 

 farm, Danvers, on North street Danvers, and at Tops- 

 field, and in other places. The usually low growing 

 willow, with very beautiful golden yellow male flowers, 

 seems to have no common name. It is the Salix 

 rostrata of the botanies. The basket osier (Salix vimi- 

 nalis) and the purple willow (Salix purpurea) are both 

 occasionally grown for commercial purposes, originally 

 from imported European plants. There are purple 

 willows by the roadside on the turnpike near the glue 

 factory, and at Swampscott near the railroad bridges. 



There are several more shrubby willows in the 

 county, but it seems hardly the place to describe 

 them here. On many of the willows cones are often 

 seen , especially noticeable after the leaves have fallen ; 

 these are the results of the stings of insects at the 

 ends of young growing branches, and are in reality 

 leaves, which, being arrested in their growth, have 

 been crowded into a mass in the form of a pine or 

 spruce cone. When opened early in the season the 

 grub of the fly will be found inside. 



Our smallest willow, which flowers when scarcely 

 more than six inches high, is found in the cold bogs, 

 in Boxford, the Andovers and other of the northern 

 towns of the county. It isthe Salix myrtilloides. But 

 the extreme is reached in minuteness in the little alpine 

 willow, Salix herbacea, of the White Mountains, of 

 which perfect flowering specimens may be found, not 

 larger than a single leaf of the great Putnam willow of 

 Danvers . 



A fine, tall growing shrubby willow (Salix caprea) 



