. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 596 SALICACEAE. Vol. ii. Salix pyrifolia Anders. Balsam Willow. Fig. 1461. Salix cordata var. balsamifera Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 149. 1839. S. pyrifolia Anders. Vet. Acad. Handl. 61: 162. 1867. S1. balsamifera Barratt; Hook. loc. cit. As synonym. 1839. Bebb. Bot. Gaz. 4: 190. 1879. A shrub, 4°-lo° high, the twigs glabrous, shin- ing, the youngest foliage pub
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 596 SALICACEAE. Vol. ii. Salix pyrifolia Anders. Balsam Willow. Fig. 1461. Salix cordata var. balsamifera Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 149. 1839. S. pyrifolia Anders. Vet. Acad. Handl. 61: 162. 1867. S1. balsamifera Barratt; Hook. loc. cit. As synonym. 1839. Bebb. Bot. Gaz. 4: 190. 1879. A shrub, 4°-lo° high, the twigs glabrous, shin- ing, the youngest foliage pubescent. Mature leaves elliptic, ovate-oval or obovate, thin, glabrous, acute or some of them obtuse at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, dark green above, glaucous and prominently reticulate-veined beneath, 2'-$' long, i'-ii' wide, slightly crenulate-serrulate the minute teeth glandular; stipules minute or none; petioles slender, a"-6" long; aments expanding with the leaves, leafy at the base, cylindric, the' staminate dense, about 1' long, the pistillate rather loose, 2'-$' long in fruit; bracts villous, persistent; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; style almost none; capsules very narrow, acute, glabrous, 2"-2i" long, slender- pedicelled. In swamps, Newfoundland to British Columbia, south to Maine, New York, Michigan and Minnesota. May. 12, Salix glaucophylla Bebb. Broad- leaved Willow. Fig. 1462. S. glaucophylla Bebb, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 485. 1889. A shrub, 4°-io° high; foliage glabrous or when young sparingly pubescent. Mature leaves ovate, obovate or oblong-lanceolate, firm, dark green and shining above, white-glaucous beneath, short-acumi- nate, the base rounded or acute, serrulate with gland- tipped teeth, 2'-4' long, ¥-2' wide; stipules large, persistent; petioles stout, 3"-6" long; aments ex- panding before the leaves, leafy at the base, the staminate i'-2'long, the pistillate li'-3'long in fruit; bracts densely white-vill
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