274 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSET'TS. 
Grovur Srevente. Tse Ocure Frowerep Wintows. Fulve. Barratt. 
Male amenis rather short, cylindrical, expanding with the 
leaves, tawny or ochre-colored ; scales yellow ; stamens two, long, 
diverging, expanding first from the base of the ament. Female 
aments lax, finally lengthened ; ovaries on long stalks, silky, 
narrow-lanceolate. A shrub with dichotomous branches and tough 
twigs.—Barratt. 
Sp. 18. Tue Braxep Wittow. S. rostrdia. Richardson. 
Branches erect, rather close, pubescent, finally smooth ; leaves broad or ob- 
ovate-lanceolate, acvte, very entire, serrate, submembranaceous, becoming sub- 
coriaceous, rather naked above, glaucous and whitish-downy beneath ; stipules 
semicordate, dentate; male aments rather short, cylindrical, dense-flowered ; 
female at last very long and Jax; scales oblong, membianaceous, hairy at the 
apex, nearly as long as the stalk; ovaries nairow-lanceolate, silky, with a 
long acummation, on a very long stalk; style very short; lobes of the stigma 
notched or entie.—Richardson, Appendix, p. 37, as quoted by Hooker, Fl 
Bor. Am., Ul, 147. 
This is a distinct and well characterized willow, found grow- 
ing in every variety of soil, more frequently in dry, but flour- 
ishing best in one moderately rich and moist, in open woods, or 
by the sides of forests. It is a shrub or small tree, from three 
or four, to ten or twelve, or even fifteen feet high. 
The stem is reddish or olive-green, or gray, striated, with 
an orange-erayish, or clay-colored epidermis. ‘The shoots are 
downy, of a reddish purple, or yellowish, or reddish above, 
where exposed to the sun, and green beneath. In drying, they 
turn to a brown or dark purple. ‘The leaves are on short, 
downy footstalks; obovate, oblong-elliptical, or broad lanceolate, 
often inequilateral, rounded or tapering at base, acuminate on 
the ends of the branches and recent shoots, with the acumina- 
tion turned half round; near the stem, shorter and broader, 
pointed, or obtuse; downy, or smooth, but with the surface 
always conspicuously netted with depressed veins above, and 
white-downy beneath. Margin entire or waved, crenulate or 
serrate, the serratures ending in a black point. The stipules 
are ear-shaped, often nearly entire, sometimes cleft to the base, 
