Vitl. 2. TORREY’S WILLOW. 277 
are grayish green, or gray; the recent shoots a bronze yellow, 
often clouded, brownish and downy; often bright red where 
exposed to much light. ‘The lower serratures of the leaves are 
enlarged, prolonged and rigid. 
It is found between Fort Franklin and Cumberland House, 
in British America, and in Pennsylvania. In this State, I have 
found it on the Hoosic, abundantly on the Connecticut, about 
the pond in Westminster from whence flows the Nashua, and 
along the banks of that river. 
‘“"This strong and handsome species furnishes excellent twigs 
and rods for the heaviest kinds of basket-work. This willow 
and S. cordata are very ornamental in groves and plantations. 
There are several varieties of S. rigida, and of the aments I 
have met with great diversity. The largest of these catkins 
are one and a half to two inches long, and when the flowering 
season is fine, and the catkins have escaped being drenched with 
rain, | have found these flowers of great beauty, exhibiting a 
play of colors from violet or purple to yellow; as the stamens 
rise over the tips of the scales from their downy bed, they yield 
the resplendent colors of the rainbow, and this zone 1s carried 
symmetrically onward, by the successive elongation of the fila- 
ments.’’—Barratt. 
Sp. 21. Torrey’s Wittow. S. Yorreydna. Barratt. 
Leaves heart-ovate, sharply pointed, one and a half inches wide, four inches 
Jong ; margin wavy and finely serrate; above smooth, deep green, beneath 
paler; stipules large, one half to three quarters of an inch broad, half-heart- 
shaped. Male ament slender; when expanded, one and a half to two inches 
long ; scales imbricate, lanceolate, blackish and ciliate ; stamens two, filaments 
rather short. Female ament, rachis slender, clothed with soft, dull white 
hairs. Germens on short pedicels, smooth, deltoid-lanceolate ; stigma four- 
parted ; in flowering time, flesh-colored, mature capsules green, somewhat 
compressed, twigs tough, smooth, greenish purple. Adult leaves coriaceous. 
— Bari att. 
Flowers April 12—18 in Middletown. 
Dr. Barratt named this hitherto undescribed willow in honor 
of his friend Professor Torrey of New York. 
‘This ornamental willow seldom exceeds eight or ten feet in 
height ; and will be readily recognized in autumn from the other 
