AMENTACE^l. 



750 



buds. Stems procumbent, ascending, or 



forming low bushes. 

 Leaves slightly toothed. Male catkins nearly 



sessile. Capsules pedicellate 9. Tea-leaved W. 



Leaves finely toothed. All the catkins on leafy 



stalks. Capsules almost sessile 13. Whorble W. 



Catkins on short peduncles, at the last leaf of a 



branch, with a bud in the angle. Stems pro- 

 strate or creeping. 

 Leaves entire, wrinkled, white underneath . . 14. Reticulate W. 

 Leaves finely toothed, not wrinkled, green on both 



sides 15. Dwarf W. 



The well-known weeping W. (S. babylonica) is of Asiatic origin. The 

 S. daphnoides, from continental Enrope, with the male catkins like 

 those of the Salloiv W., but with lanceolate, pointed, green or glaucous 

 leaves, is occasionally planted, and has been seen apparently wild, 

 near Cleveland in Yorkshire ; and some other Continental or JSTorth 

 American species have been described as British from planted speci- 

 mens. Most, if not all, of the British species are said to be also natives 

 of North America. 



1. Bay Willow. Salix pentandra, Linn. (Fig. 910.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1805.) 



A shrub or small tree, from 6 to 20 

 feet high, glabrous or rarely slightly 

 silky on the young shoots, the twigs 

 green or yellow. Leaves broadly lan- 

 ceolate or oblong, pointed, finely toothed, 

 thicker, and more smooth and shining 

 than in any other species. Catkins cy- 

 lindrical and loose, on short, lateral, 

 leafy shoots ; the males 1\ to 2 inches 

 long, less hairy than in most species. 

 Stamens usually 5 but sometimes more, 

 and there are almost always 2 or even 

 more entire or divided gland-like scales 

 at their base. Ovaries glabrous, nearly 

 sessile or stalked. Capsules 2 to 3 lines 

 long, of a yellowish-green. 



In damp, open woods, and along 

 streams, chiefly in hilly districts, extending all over Europe and Bussian 

 Asia to the Arctic regions. In Britain, chiefly in northern England, 

 southern Scotland, and Ireland. Fl. spring, rather late. 



Fig. 910. 



