. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Purple Willow 207 so, and purplish after the first season. The leaves are eUiptic-lanceolate to some- what obovate, 10 cm. long or less, 2 to 4 cm. wide, pointed at both ends or bluntish at the apex, when young hairy on both sides, and es- pecially so beneath, and mi- nut ely glandular-toothed, when mature entire-mar- gined, smooth and hght green on the upper side, per- sistently white-felty beneath; the stout, hairy leaf
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Purple Willow 207 so, and purplish after the first season. The leaves are eUiptic-lanceolate to some- what obovate, 10 cm. long or less, 2 to 4 cm. wide, pointed at both ends or bluntish at the apex, when young hairy on both sides, and es- pecially so beneath, and mi- nut ely glandular-toothed, when mature entire-mar- gined, smooth and hght green on the upper side, per- sistently white-felty beneath; the stout, hairy leaf-stalks are cm. long or less, the narrowly lanceolate hairy stipules I to 2 cm. long. The catkins appear in May or June and flower before the leaves unfold or while they are unfolding; they are nearly stalkless, 2 to 7 cm. long, their bracts long-hairy, ovate, blunt; there are 2 sta-. FiG. 170.— Felt-leaf WUlow. mens in the staminate flowers with separate filaments; the pistillate flowers have a narrowly ovoid-conic woolly short-stalked ovary and a fihform style much longer than the stigmas. The capsules are woolly, very short-stalked, about 6 mm. long. Salix longistylis Rydberg, of the Yukon Territory, differs from this species in having the twigs devoid of hairs; it is not known to grow more than 4 meters Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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