SEED-BEARING PLANTS 

 ARCHICHLAMYDEJE 



APETALiE 



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406. Willow Family (Salicaceae).— This family com- 

 prises both the willows^ (Salix) and^the'^poplars (Populus). 

 There are about 20 species of poplarjn North'^America. 

 The willows, in North America, comprise over 30 species. 



Fig. 340. — Inflorescence of a wiEow {Salix discolor). At the left pistillate, 

 at the right staminate catkins. 



trees and shrubs, and are specially common in moist 

 situations. Several species are cultivated to furnish 

 twigs for basket-making. The weeping willow {Salix 

 habylonica), an object of peculiar beauty along streams 

 and lakeshores, owes its pendulous or "weeping" character 



