. 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. 198 The Willows veined, 6 to 12 mm. long, remaining until the fall of the leaves or earUer deciduous. The catkins are borne at the ends of very short, few-leaved branchlets and flower in March or April before the leaves unfold, or at the time they are imfold- ing; they are from 2 to 5 cm. long, their bracts blunt, hairy, persistent in the pistillate ones; the staminate flowers have two smooth stamens, the pistillate a smo
. 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. 198 The Willows veined, 6 to 12 mm. long, remaining until the fall of the leaves or earUer deciduous. The catkins are borne at the ends of very short, few-leaved branchlets and flower in March or April before the leaves unfold, or at the time they are imfold- ing; they are from 2 to 5 cm. long, their bracts blunt, hairy, persistent in the pistillate ones; the staminate flowers have two smooth stamens, the pistillate a smooth, slender-stalked ovary, the notched stigmas about as long as the short style. In fruit, the pistillate catkins become 6 to 10 cm. long, the smooth, narrowly ovoid-conic capsules 6 to 8 mm. long, their filiform stalks 3 to 6 mm. long. Fig. 158. - Missouri WiUow. -phe wood is more durable, and therefore more valuable than that of most other willows, and is used for posts; it is soft, weak, reddish brown, the sapwood much hghter in color than the 19. CALIFORNIA WHITE WILLOW - Salix lasiolepis Bentham Salix Bigelovii Torrey Inhabiting banks of rivers, streams, and lakes, the CaUfomia white willow ranges nearly throughout that State, extending into Nevada and Arizona, and perhaps northward into southern Oregon. It is often a shrub, but sometimes forms a tree up to 15 or 16 meters in height in southern CaUfomia. Its bark is brown, rather thin, more or less fissured; the young twigs at first velvety and yel- low or reddish, becoming smooth and dark brown or reddish brown; the winter buds are smooth or a little hairy, flattened, pointed, 5 to 7 mm. long. The leaves are mostly oblanceo- late, varying to oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 10 cm. long, I to 2 cm. wide, or those of young shoots sometimes larger; they are pointed or bluntish at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, hairy on both sides when young, but smooth and dark green on the upper surface when ma- ture, the under
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