. 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. Sandbar Willow 193 have two stamens; in the pistillate flowers there is a narrowly ovoid smooth ovary with nearly sessile stigmas. The fruiting catkins are 5 to 7 cm. long, the smooth, nearly stalkless capsules ovoid-conic, 3 to 4 mm. long. Its wood is preferred in England for cricket balls. The Blue willow, Salix cmrulea J. E. Smith, also European, has been consid- erably planted for ornament, and is reported as locally
. 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. Sandbar Willow 193 have two stamens; in the pistillate flowers there is a narrowly ovoid smooth ovary with nearly sessile stigmas. The fruiting catkins are 5 to 7 cm. long, the smooth, nearly stalkless capsules ovoid-conic, 3 to 4 mm. long. Its wood is preferred in England for cricket balls. The Blue willow, Salix cmrulea J. E. Smith, also European, has been consid- erably planted for ornament, and is reported as locally established in the eastern States, but scarcely naturalized; it has bluish green leaves, nearly white on the under side. 13. WEEPING WILLOW—Salix babylonica Linnaeus The Weeping willow, so called from its drooping branches, is of Asiatic origin, but has been widely planted for ornament and for shade in Europe and North and South America; it has been distributed along streams and in valleys by means of its twigs, which take root readily in wet soil; it is now naturaUzed to a greater or less extent locally from Massachusetts to Michigan and Virginia. The tree some- times becomes 20 meters high, with a trunk up to nearly 2 meters in diameter. The bark is gray and rough, the young twigs slender, green to brown, smooth, characteristically drooping; the winter buds are sharp-pointed, light brown, 4 to 6 mm. long; the leaves are linear or linear-lanceolate, long- pointed, finely toothed, somewhat silky-hairy when unfolding, soon smooth on both sides, 6 to 18 cm. long, 5 to 12 mm. wide, rather bright green on the upper side, pale green be- neath; their stalks are 6 to 12 mm. long, often hairy, sometimes glandular toward the base of the blade; the small stipules usually fall away early in the season. The catkins are borne on short, leafy branches of the season, flowering in April or May; they are small, 5 cm. long 01 less, slender, with ovate-lanceolate, slightly hairy bracts; there a
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