Salix. 



SALICACEiE. 



211 



******* Fuhvm, Barratt. Amenis cylindrical, expanding with the young leaves, fulvous. Scales iielloxo . Stamens 2; the 

 filaments distinct. Capsules on long pedicels, loose, rostrate. 



12. Salix rostrata, Richards. Ochre-jlowered Willow. 



Leaves oblong- or obovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, toothed or waved on the margin, hoary- 

 pubescent and glaucous underneath, smoothish above ; stipules lunate or ovate, toothed ; 

 sterile aments densely flowered , the fertile at length much elongated ; capsules with the 

 pedicels longer than the scales, attenuated into a long slender beak ; style almost wanting ; 

 stigmas 2-cleft. — Richards, app. Frank. 1st jour. (ed. 2.) p. 37, excl. syn. Sm. ; Hook. fl. 

 Bor.-Am. 2. p. 147 ; Barratt, Sal. no. 25. 



A shrub 4-15 feet high, with numerous straight tough reddish brown twigs, which are 

 pubescent when young, but finally smooth. Leaves 2-4 inches long, prominently veined 

 and almost velvety underneath, sometimes rather obtuse, varying from almost entire to pretty 

 sharply serrate-toothed : petiole 3-5 lines long. Aments on leafy peduncles ; the sterile 

 very densely flowered, about an inch long ; the scales oblong, longer than the hairs which 

 clothe them. Fertile aments (when mature) nearly two inches long ; the capsules loose and 

 spreading, on very long and slender pedicels. 



Borders of swamps. Western part of the State (Dr. Knicskern and Dr. Sartwell). Fl. 

 Middle of April. Near Oriskany, and at Rome, Dr. Knieskern found small trees of this 

 species, which, in April, were loaded with sterile aments ; and about the middle of May, when 

 the leaves were fully grown, there appeared a second set of aments, which were androgynous, 

 being fertile above and staminiferous below. In some of the aments there were perfect flowers, 

 with from one to three stamens, and one, two or three ovaries. 



******** Cordate, Barratt. Aments on short peduncles, ovatc-cylindraceous, appearing with the leaves ; the scales somewhat 

 ciliale. Stamens 2 or 3. Ovaries pedicellate, smooth. Leaves often cordate at the base, smooth. Stipules semi- 

 cordate, serrate. — Large shrubs with smooth flexible branches. 



13. Salix cordata, Muhl. Heart-leaved Willow. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, cordate at the base, acutely serrate, smooth, paler 

 underneath ; stipules large, roundish-ovate ; aments appearing with the leaves ; scales ovate- 

 lanceolate, woolly, black ; stamens mostly 2 ; ovaries pedicellate, ovoid -oblong, tapering 

 above, smooth ; style very short ; stigmas 2-cleft. — Muhl. I. c. p. 236. t. 6.f. 3 ; Willd. sp. 

 4. p. 666 ; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 615 ; Sal Wob. t. 142 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 149 ; Beck, 

 hot. p. 321 ; Barratt, Sat no. 26. . * ' 



A shrub 3-6 feet high, with smooth yellowish green pretty tough branches ; flowering twigs 

 smoothish and red ; the young sterile twigs pubescent or villous. Buds brownish. Leaves 

 3-5 inches long, and from three-fourths of an inch to an inch wide, pubescent on the 

 midrib underneath, the base mostly unequal and cordate or somewhat auriculate : serratures 

 glandular or callous: petioles more or less pubescent, 4-6 lines long, without glands. 



27* 



