Oedeb 122.— SALICAOBiB. 653 



Shrub or small tree, 4 to 16f higli, with long, slender, smooth, purple or yel- 

 lowish green twigs, tough and elastic, used in basket making. (S. rosmarini- 

 fdlia Ph.) 

 (3. FtrsoATA. Lvs. obovate-lanoeolate, acute ; aments of a leaden hue from the 

 thinner hairs. 



9 S. vimiuEtlis L. Basket Osieb. Ims. Unear-lanceolaie, very long, acuminate, 

 subentire, silky-canesceni beneath ; stip. minute ; branches virgate ; aments preco- 

 cious ; soflles roundish, very hairy ; fila/menU disiiTict ; ova. sessile, ovoid ; sty. 

 filiform ; stig. undivided, acute. — Wet meadows and margins of rivers. Sts. 10 to 

 12f high, with long, straight, slender, and flexible branches. Lvs. often a foot in 

 length, narrow, covered with a snow-whito pubescence beneath. Aments very 

 hairy. May. § Eur. , 



10 S. purpiirea L. PtrnPLB Willow. IJiis. partly opposite, dbovaU-lanceolaie, 

 serrulate above, very smooth, narrowed at the base, aments cylindrical, with leafy 

 bracts at base ; scales orbicular, black ; filaments united into 1, with 2 an^wrs ; 

 ovary sessile, ovate-elliptic; sty. very short; stig. emarginate. — ^Low grounds, 

 river banks, and cultivated like the last for basket-making. Shrub 6 to lOf 

 high. Twigs very long, slender and tough, covered with a smooth, oUve-coJored 

 bark. > 



11 S. rostr^ta Richardson. Branches erect, straight, pubescent, at length 

 smooth; lvs. broadly or obovaie-lariceolate, acute, subentire, at length coriaceous, 

 smooth above, glaucous-piibesceni beneath; stip. semicordate, dentate; amenta 

 short, cyhndric, dense, the fertile ones becoming very long and loose ; scales ob- 

 long, membranous, hairy at tire apex ; ova. narrow-lanceolate, silky, long-acumi- 

 nate, on very long pedicels; sty. very short ; stig. lobed, the lobes bifid or entire. 

 — Shrub or small tree 8 — lOf high. Bark of the trunk dark-colored, of the 

 branches yellow. 



12 S. longifolia Muhl. Lonq-leaved Willow. Lvs. linear, acuminate at each 

 end, elongated, remotely toothed, smooth, nearly of the same color on both sides ; 

 siip. lanceolate, dentate ; aments tomentous, pedunculate ; sta. 2 ; scales flat, re- 

 tuse ; ovary short-stalked ; fit. bearded at base, twice longer than the scales. — 

 Eiver banks from the Conn, and Ohio to Oregon and Brit. Am. It possesses a 

 remarkable power of rooting, extending itself and binding the loose sands to- 

 gether. Stems about 2f high, with brown branches and white branchlets. 



13 S. phylioifolia L. MoufiTAiN Willow. Lvs. ovate or lanoeolate, remotely 

 repand-serrate, glabrous, glaucous beneath; stip. semicordate, oblique at apex; 

 aments braoteate, i sessile ; caps, pedicellate, conical-elongated, somewhat silky ; 

 sty. long. — ^Whito Mts. A handsome, low shrub, spreading, with broad-elliptical, 

 very smooth leaves, the margins repand-serrate. 



14 S. ripens L. Cbeepins Willow, low, creeping ; lvs. obovate or Icmce-obo- 

 vate, floutish or bluntly acuminate, obscurely crenate-toothed, glabrous and shining 

 above, silky-pubescent, at length glabrons and glaucous beneath, retiSuIate both 

 sides; siip. obloru/, very caducous; aments short, few-flowered, very silky-; stam. 

 2 ; ovary silky, pedicellate. — Alpine summits Whito Mts. and northward. Sts. a 

 few inches above ground. Lvs. 8 to 12" by 4 to 6", petioles 3 to 4", clothed 

 with silky pubescence when young, very smooth when old. 



15 S. pedicill^ris Ph. Lvs. elliptic-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, rather obtuse 

 at base, entire, both sides glabrous, beneath shghtly glaucous and reticulato- 

 veiued; aments pedunculate; caps, ovate-conic, glabrous, long-pediceUaic ; scales 

 short, obtuse, a little hairy; sty. very short; lobes of the stigma clefl;. — Mountain 

 swamps, N. Bug. and N. Y. A low and elegant shrub, with rather a virgate 

 habit, remarkable for its entire smoothness. On mountains it is more straggling. 

 Lvs. light, yellowish green, 1 to 2' long, .very entire. (S. myrtilloides Tucker.) 



16. S. Uva-tirsi Ph. Lvs. elliptical or obovate, obtuse at each end, glandular- 

 dmti&ukiiie, smooth above, glaucous-smoothish beneath, silky- villous when young; 

 aments pedmicidate, cylindric, dense; caps, ovate-conic, briefly pedicellate, glabrous; 

 scales obovate, black, silky; stam. one; stig. bifid, lobes at length cleft. — White 

 Mts. N. H. A low or prostrate shrub. Lvs. 3 to 5" by 2 to 3". Aments 6". 



17 S. herbScea L. Heeb Willow. Arctic Willow. Dwarf; lvs. orbicular, 

 cordate, serrate, glabrous, veiny; aments few-flowered, sessile; scales small, glab- 



