Salix. 



SALICACEjE. 



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what coriaceous : petioles 1-2 lines long. Aments terminating the leafy branches, about 

 three-fourths of an inch long, rather few-flowered : capsules of a reddish color mixed with 

 green, tapering from an obtuse base ; the pedicels very slender. 



Sphagnous swamps. Catskill mountains (Pursh) ; Lodi, Seneca county (Dr. Folwell) ; 

 near Oriskany (Dr. Knieshern), Fl. May. A low, very distinct and neat species, which 

 my friend Mr. Tuckerman thinks is not distinct from S. myrtilloides, Linn., but I am not yet 

 satisfied that they are the same. 



********** Prostrats, Barratt. Anient s pedunculate, appearing vnth the leaves. Humble, somewhat creeping or prostrate 



shrubs. 



16. Salix Cutleri, Tuckerman. Cutler s Willow. 



Depressed ; leaves elliptical and acute, or obovate and obtuse, always acute at the base, 

 glandularly denticulate, smooth and somewhat shining above, glaucous underneath ; aments 

 appearing with the leaves, pedunculate, oblong-cylindrical, compact ; stamens solitary ; cap- 

 sules ovoid-conical, on shorl pedicels, smooth ; scales obovate (blackish), silky ; style distinct ; 

 lobes of the stigma 2-cleft. — Tuclierman, I. c. p. 36. S. Uva Ursi, Pursh, fl. 2. p. 610?; 

 Torr. in Geol. report for 1840 ; Oakes pi. N. Eng. in Hoveifs Mag. June, 1841. 



Stem depressed and much branched, smooth. Leaves mostly obovate, from half an inch 

 to an inch long and 3-6 lines wide, usually obtuse at the summit, tapering at the base into 

 a short petiole. Aments about half an inch long and 2 lines wide, on short leafy peduncles, 

 very silky when young. Scales of the sterile aments bearing a single stamen : anther 

 roundish. Capsules tapering into a distinct style, very small. 



Summit of Mount Marcy, Essex county. Also on Whiteface (Prof. Hall). Fl. June. 



The aments of this species sometimes produce an anomalous inflorescence. In the female 

 plant (as it seems to be) the ovary is abortive, and in its place is a stipe bearing a perfect 

 2-celled anther at its summit with the cells opening in the usual way, and discharging pollen ; 

 the apparent connective being produced into a short style, which is tipped with an entire 

 stigma. In the same ament are found 2-lobed pedicellate abortive ovaries, each with a short 

 style and simple stigma. 



2. POPULUS. Toum.; Endl. gen. 1904. poplar. 



[From the Latin, popidus, the people ; having been used in ancient times as a shade tree for public walks.] 



Bracts of the aments laciniated at the extremity. Torus urceolate, obliquely truncated. 

 Stamens 8 - 12 or more. — Trees, often with pyramidal heads, and usually broad, more or 

 less ovate or cordate toothed leaves. Buds covered with a resinous varnish. Flowers 

 appearing before the leaves. 



