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the half-way forms from which, unforUmalel}-, the t>pe was 
taken. The extreme forms are generalh' low, not more than one 
m. tall, and very bushy in habit, making them easily distinguish- 
able from the typical forms of the species at a distance. Rarely, 
however, it grows into a more open shrub eight or ten feet tall. 
In its flowering habits it carries the peculiarities of Salix inte- 
rior to an extreme. The species has a habit of sending out sec- 
ondary aments just below the first to open, .so continuing the 
flowering period until late in the season. In the variet}' these 
secondary catkins become so prominent that the inflorescence 
sometimes takes on a cymose character. Half a dozen catkins 
are often seen in a cluster, all of about the same age. In the 
species thej’ come on one by one and are much less noticeble even 
when as numerous. The flowering period is also di.stinctly later 
than with the species. On Cedar point it seems to beat its height 
about the first of July and continues through the month, tapering 
off into August. The species growing near b}* has by the first of 
Juh' almost passed its flowering time and only a few straggling 
catkins can be fotmd. It must be added in this connection that 
nearl}' all of the plants are staminate. Not over i per cent, of 
them are carpellate. What significance this may have cannot be 
told as 3’et. 
Altogether the variety is so different from the species that it 
would be taken for a distinct species on first sight. Because of 
numerous intermediates such an assumption could not be main- 
tained, but it is the best marked willow variety we have in the 
State. 
Salix pentaxdra in Ohio. 
Salix peutandra, the European species corresponding to .Sh//_v 
laiida, is not infrequently cultivated in Ohio for its twigs, which 
are of good (iuality for basket weaving. It is very similar to the 
American species and in some forms they can hardly be distin- 
guished. But the European species never has the very long 
attenuate, ovate leaves .so characteristic of vigorous shoots of 
Salix I Jidda. Its leaves are rather thinner and less glossy, not so 
different from the ordinary willow leaf as those of Sali.v lucida. 
Salix pcntandra has not, to my knowledge, been reported as an 
e.scape in America. At least it is not included in the Manuals. 
This makes it of considerable interest to note that two plants 
have been detected escaped in Ohio. One is from Bridgeport, 
Belmont county, by Dr. W. A. Kellerman, the other from Co- 
lumbus. Any possible uncertaint}- as to identification owing to 
the similarity to the native species, is much reduced b}- the fact 
that both cases are in territory out of the range of Salix lucida, 
which occurs only in the northern part of the .State. The reports 
of the collectors also make it certain that the plants were rcallj' 
wild and not cultivated. 
