Forest trees of the Pacific slope . liijUa. It is sometimes 20 or 25 feet highand from 8 to 10 inches through, but usually it is a slender shrub from 6 to 10feet high. The grayish-brown bark of larger trunks is from one-third to one-half an inch thick, with irregular shallow seams. Mature leaves (fig. 92), about2 to 4i inches long by about one-fourth to one-third of an inch wide, sometimesnarrower, are light pea-green, smooth or minutely hairy on the upper side, andwith white, silky hairs beneath. Midveins of the leaves, lemon yellow, and theshort thick stems minutely hairy. The distinctive ch
Forest trees of the Pacific slope . liijUa. It is sometimes 20 or 25 feet highand from 8 to 10 inches through, but usually it is a slender shrub from 6 to 10feet high. The grayish-brown bark of larger trunks is from one-third to one-half an inch thick, with irregular shallow seams. Mature leaves (fig. 92), about2 to 4i inches long by about one-fourth to one-third of an inch wide, sometimesnarrower, are light pea-green, smooth or minutely hairy on the upper side, andwith white, silky hairs beneath. Midveins of the leaves, lemon yellow, and theshort thick stems minutely hairy. The distinctive characters of this willow are not fully worked out. Manyforms of it so closely resemble .S. fluvintUin (irgj/rophylla, with which it mayoccur, that they can l)e distinguished only with great diflSculty. Further carefulfield study is required for both. 224 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Wood, jiale reddish brown. Not usod coiuiucrfially. Longevity.—Not fulJy determined. Stems from U to J inches in diameter are24 to 37 years I-iG. !)!.— scssilifaUa: a, seed-bearing branch. From mouth of Columbia Uiver, Washington, to southwestern California, rangingthrough western Oregon and western slopes of .Sierras and coast ranges. of streams and moist deprcssioDB. FOEEST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 225 Mackenzie cordiUd UKiil-rnzirana CHARACTERISTICS. Mackenzie willow is a little-known species, probably not now distinguished bylaymen. Slender, straight, from 15 to 18 feet high and from 3 to 5 inches in
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