WILLOW FAMILY 
SHINING WILLOW 
Salix lucida. 
A bushy tree sometimes twenty feet in height, found on banks of 
streams and swamps, with shert trunk and erect branches which form 
a round-topped symmetrical head. Ranges from Newfoundland 
westward across the continent to the Rocky Mountains, southward 
as far as Pennsylvania and Nebraska. 
Bark.—Smooth, dark brown. Branchlets smooth at first, orange 
color and shining, later dark brown. 
Winter Buds.—Ovate, acute, light brown, one-fourth of an inch 
long. 
Leaves.—Alternate, oblong-lanceolate, three to five inches long, 
narrowed or wedge-shaped, or rounded at base, finely serrate, acute 
with long tapering often falcate points. Involute in bud, they come 
out green, when full grown are leathery, smooth, shining, dark green 
above, paler beneath, midrib conspicuously prominent beneath. 
Petioles short, stout, yellow, grooved, glandular. Stipules semi- 
circular, serrate, membranous and often persistent. 
felowers.—April, before the leaves. Staminate 
catkins oblong-cylindrical, densely flowered, an 
inch to an inch and a half long, terminal, on short 
leafy branches ; stamens five. Pistillate catkins 
slender, an inch and a half to two inches long, 
becoming three or four inches long when the fruit 
ripens, often persisting until late. 
fruzt,—Capsule, cylindrical, one-third of an 
inch long, shining. 
PEACH WIiLLOW—ALMONDLEAF 
WILLOW 
Salix amvedaloides. 
Sometimes sixty to seventy feet high, with 
straight trunk and straight ascending branches, 
usually much smaller. Follows the water-courses 
and ranges across the continent ; less abundant in 
New [england than elsewhere. In the west it be- 
comes the common willow along the banks of 
Almondleaf Willow, 
Salix amygdaloides. 
Leaves 2/ to 3/ long. streams. 
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