. 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. 204 The Willows. Fig. 166. — Bebb's Willow. glandular-toothed, sometimes i cm. long or more, and usually fall away early. The catkins are 2 to 3 cm. long, borne on very short few-leaved branchlets, and flower while the leaves are unfolding or before, in April or May; their bracts are blunt, hairy, yellow, with pinii tips, those of the pistillate catkins persistent; the staminate flowers have 2 stamens with smooth fila- me
. 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. 204 The Willows. Fig. 166. — Bebb's Willow. glandular-toothed, sometimes i cm. long or more, and usually fall away early. The catkins are 2 to 3 cm. long, borne on very short few-leaved branchlets, and flower while the leaves are unfolding or before, in April or May; their bracts are blunt, hairy, yellow, with pinii tips, those of the pistillate catkins persistent; the staminate flowers have 2 stamens with smooth fila- ments; in the pistillate flowers the hairy ovary is stalked, the notched stigmas ses- sile on its apex. The fruiting pistillate catkins become 5 cm. long or less, the narrowly ovoid-conic beaked capsules 6 or 7 mm. long, their fiUform stalks usually about one half as long. 27. BAKER'S WILLOW —Salix Bakeri von Seamen This recently described CaUfomiah species grows along streams in the west- central parts of the State and has been confused with Salix lasiolepis Bentham, which it much resembles, but its capsules are hairy toward the top; it attains a height of 10 meters or more, and is re- ported to extend northward into Oregon, and there to become twice that height. The young twigs are finely puberulent, soon becoming smooth and dark brown; the winter buds are ovoid, puberulent, pointed, about 4 mm. long. The leaves are oblanceolate, or some of them oblong- lanceolate, 4 to 7 cm. long, I to cm. wide, pointed at both ends or some of them blunt at the apex, smooth, bright green and some- what shining on the upper side, pale, hairy, and rather prominently veined beneath, the margins entire or with a few low teeth; the puberulent leaf-stalks are i cm. long or less, the stipules small, obhquely oblong, hairy beneath, sometimes persistent. The catkins appear before the leaves on twigs of the preceding season, and flower in March or April; they are very short-stalked, with a few s
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