11. Salix myricoides Muhl. Mag . Ber. p. 235, t. 6,f 2: et Ann. 
Bot. II, t. 5 f 2 : et Flor. Lancast. MSS. II, p. 769 : Willd. sp. 
pi. IV, p. 666 : Pursh, p, 613 : Hort. Kew. V, p. 355 : Muhl. Cat. 
p. 95, n. 3. 
Flowers April 18. Eng. Gale-leaved Willow. 
Grows in swamps and wet places. The leaves are nearly the size 
of S. prinoides, to which it approaches in general appearance, hut the 
leaves blacken in drying, which is not the case with S. prinoides. In 
the figure of Muhlenberg cited, the two prominent glands represented 
are rarely so found. The figure is indifferent. The largest leaves in 
autumn are thick and coriaceous, and have their serratures tipped 
with glands. 
11. Salix myricoides. 
Leaves. September. 
12. Salix fuscata Pursh, FI. Am. II, p. 612/ 
FI owers, April 15. Eng. — Leaden-flowered Willow. 
Hab. — Grows in pools and swamps and on wet banks. It furnishes 
Excellent twigs suitable for fine basket work. This Willow is pecu- 
liarly adapted for embankments and mill-dams, where its low growth 
would render it less objectionable than larger kinds, which are so in- 
discriminately planted. The bitterness of the bark will also serve to 
protect it from being gnawed by muskrats. It seldom grows above 3 
or 4 feet high, and is somewhat disposed to spread. When the twigs 
have lain in water, they are blackened mostly at their extremities. The 
Aments may be distinguished in flowering time by their leaden hue. 
The specimens blacken in drying, as is the case with the rest of the 
Willows in Section III. The twigs in autumn are of a brownish red. 
Sect. IV. VIMINALES. Borrer. 
13. Salix viminalis Linn . sp. pi. 1443, n. 29: Pursh FI. 
608: Seringe Ex Dess. Sal. n. 15, (1824): Salictum Wob. p. 
265 t. 133 ! Hooker Brit. FI. 3 d Ed. p. 42 7 . < 
Flowers April 12 : Eng. Basket osier. 
An introduced species extensively cultivated in Europe for 
basket work. According to Loudon’s Arb. Brit., the fertile 
plant yields the stoutest twigs, and is therefore preferred in Hol- 
land. 
Sect. V. FRAGILES. 
Amenta pedunculata cylindrica, laxa, acuminata, cose- 
tanea, vel serotina. Squamae viridi-flavae, pubescentes 
vel glabrae. Siam. 2-5, e basi amenti prorumpentia. 
Germinibus glabris. Folia lanceolata, vel lanceolata-fal- 
cata serrata, denticulata vel integerrima. Arbores. 
Barr alt in Hooker, Flor. Bor- Am. II, p. 148. 
14. Salix fragilis Linn. sp. pi. 1443: Salictum Woo. p . 
53, t. 27 ! Hooker Brit. FI. 3d Ed p. 42 I : et Fl. Bor-Am. 2, 
p . 148. = S. ambigua? Pursh II, p . 617, n. 34. 
Flowers, May 17 ; Eng. Crack Willow. 
Hab. — Middletown ; on Islands, and on the banks of Con- 
necticut river, where several interesting varieties of this Willow 
of rapid growth occur, that might probably be cultivated to ad- 
vantage, and apparently nearly allied to the Russell or Bedford 
Willow that has been so successfully and profitably cultivated 
in England, and elsewhere. 
14. Salix fragilis. 
Mas. aments. 
14. Salix fragilis. Foem. 
14. Salix fragilis, 
Var. (3 pendula. 
14, Salix fragilis. 
Var, y Ambigujp Flowers. 
14. Salix fragilis. 
Var. ambigua. Adult leaves. 
15. Salix decipiens Hoffman Sal. 2, t. 31,; Pursh, p. 617 : 
Smiih, Eng. Flora, IV, p. 183 : Salict. Wob. p. 57, t. 29 ! 
Flowers, May 11; capsules ripe June 12. 
Eng. Varnished Willow. 
This species is sometimes, by mistake, planted for the Yellow 
Willow, to which it is greatly inferior. I have seen an extended 
row so planted ; and when in full flower it presented a hand- 
some sight, thronged with bees and other insects. The female 
plant only of the yellow widow, S. vitellina, has to my knowledge 
been introduced in this country. The staminate as well as the 
pistillate trees of S. decipiens are found here. 
15. Salix decipiens, 
Mas. aments. 
15. Salix decipiens, 
Capsules. 
16, Salix pameaciiiana* Barratt ; leaves long-lanceolate acu- 
minate ; 4-6 inches long. 4 to 1 inch broad, with fine cartila- 
ginous serratures ; above, deep green, beneath, glaucous, stipules 
small lanceolate ; frequently wanting. Mas. aments cylindrical, 
lax andsomewhat recurved; scales obtuse yellowish, stamens 2, bark 
of the twigs smooth, yellowish and variegated : ends of the twigs 
red in flowering time. 
Flo i vers April 20 — May. Eng. Pameacha Willow. 
A tree of the size of S. decipiens, and may be best described by say- 
ing it is the intermediate of S. vitellina and the former, but certainly 
disinct from either. I have only met with the staminate tree, growing 
about the Pameacha stream in this town. It flowers somewhat earlier 
than S. decipiens. The aments are also more lax and slender, and fre- 
quently recurved. The bark of the preceding years twigs are beauti- 
fully speckled in flowering time. 
17. Salix lucida Muhl. Mag. Mat.fr. Ber. IV, p . 239, t . 6, 
f. 7 : Willd. sp. pi. IV,y>. 667 : Michx. Sylo. Am. Ill, t. 125, 
f. 3 ! Pursh, II, p. 615: Hooker, Fl. Bor-Am. II, p. 143. 
Flowers May Capsules ripe June. 
Eng. Glossy broad-Ieavecl Willow T . 
This is an ornamental species. Its rich broad and glossy leaves, 
contrast finely with the narrow leaves of S. nigra and others, 
among a profusion of Willows, on the verdant banks and isl- 
ands of the Connecticut. It is nearly allied to the European 
S. pentandra. Buds, yellow. 
17. Salix lucida. Mas. aments. 
