WESTERN POND WILLOW. 
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downy, but at a later period brown, and sometimes 
quite blue, with a glaucous bloom. The leaves, with 
their short petioles, measure about two inches, and are 
about half an inch wide, pubescent above, at length 
nearly smooth and deep green, but always clad beneath 
with a whitish close tomentum, producing all the bril- 
liant display of the finest velvet. The male flowers we 
have not seen. The female catkins are rather long, 
loose, and subcylindric, often accompanied at the base 
by two or three leaves, and come out when the leaves 
are considerably grown. The capsules are silky, short, 
ovate, and acute. The style short, and the stigmas 
four and smooth. The scales of the catkin are brown 
and oval, somewhat hairy, and much shorter than the 
capsules. In the narrow leaved varieties, the leaves 
appear almost wholly entire. The broader leaved plants 
bear some resemblance to the Grey Willow, but the 
serrulations are minute and the stipules very small, or 
wholly wanting. 
WESTERN POND WILLOW. 
SALIX macrocarpa , foliis lanceolatis angustatis subinte- 
gerrimis utrinque acutis subacuminatis demum glabris 
subtus glaucis , stipulis obsoletis , amentis coxtaneis dian- 
dris, capsulis ventricosis caudatis glabriusculis pedicellatis, 
stigmatibus subsessilibus quadrifidis. 
This species, like our Pond Willow ( S . grisea ), to 
which it is closely related, is found forming clumps in 
wet places where the water is stagnant, situations 
which it always seems to prefer to the banks of running 
streams. It attains the height of 3 or 4 feet. The 
