The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . n 76 LONG-LEAVED WILLOW. or spike are oblong or lance-oblong, and less hairy than in thestaminiferous catkin. The germ is lanceolate, pedicellate, andsmooth, acuminated, and terminated by a short, bifid style, withtwo pubescent, bifid stigmas. The capsule is likewise smooth,and contains seeds with a very lon
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . n 76 LONG-LEAVED WILLOW. or spike are oblong or lance-oblong, and less hairy than in thestaminiferous catkin. The germ is lanceolate, pedicellate, andsmooth, acuminated, and terminated by a short, bifid style, withtwo pubescent, bifid stigmas. The capsule is likewise smooth,and contains seeds with a very long pappus, as abundant almostas on a seed of cotton. The wood is whitish and close-grained, and might probablybe employed for the same purposes as that of the White Poplar,but the nearly uninhabited state of the country in Oregonprevents the possibility of making any useful experiments. Asan ornamental and hardy tree, however, it stands ]Dre-eminentamong all its fraternity, and well deserves to be introduced intopleasure-grounds, where it would be perfectly hardy as farnorth as New York, or in any part of Great Britain. PLATE XVII. A tioig and leaf of the natural size. a. The female catkin, b. Tlie male-catkin, c. The male flower and scale of the catkin, d. The open cap-sule. S alix: p ent andr a. LONG-LEAVED BAY WILLOW. Salix pentandra. Foliis elbpticis aeuminatis serratis glahris, pciioUssuperne glandidosis, amentis seroiinis pentandris, gcrminibus lanceolatlsglahris.—Willd,, Sp. pi. 1. c. Vahl., in Flora Danica, tab. , Sal. Austr. 1, t. 1, f. 2. Eng. Bot., t. 1805. Salix pentandra. Foliis serratis glahris, florihus pentandris.—Linn.,Hort. Cliftbrt, p. 454, et Sp. pL, p. 144. Flora Lapponica, p. 370,t. 8, fig. 3. Gmelin, Flora Sibirica, vol. i., p. 153, t. 34, fig. 1. Salix foliis glahris, ovato-lanceolatis; petiolis glandidosis; florihus hexaste-monihus.—IIaller, Flora Helvetica, No. 1639. Salix montama major; foliis Laurinis.—Tournefort, Institutes R
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