. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 653. S. balsamifera. iiate, with a broadly rounded base, cm. long, cm. wide, short-acumi- nate, glandular-serrate, subcoriaceous, glabrous throughout, dark green and shining above, glaucous beneath, the young drying black; stipules large, ear-shaped, dentate; aments dense, thick- cylindrical, very silky, the staminate cm. long, the pistillate becoming 4-7 cin. long ; capsules attenuate-rostrate, 9-11 mm. long, greenish, drying
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 653. S. balsamifera. iiate, with a broadly rounded base, cm. long, cm. wide, short-acumi- nate, glandular-serrate, subcoriaceous, glabrous throughout, dark green and shining above, glaucous beneath, the young drying black; stipules large, ear-shaped, dentate; aments dense, thick- cylindrical, very silky, the staminate cm. long, the pistillate becoming 4-7 cin. long ; capsules attenuate-rostrate, 9-11 mm. long, greenish, drying brown. —Shrub or shruTaby tree (1-5 m. high), forming extensive thickets on sandy or alluvial shores of rivers and lakes, 8. Que. to Alb., s. to N. B., Me., and the Great Lakes. Fig. 652. Var. Bebb. Leaves narrower (8 cm. long, 2 cm. wide), pointed at both ends. — Same range. Var. bkevif6lia Bebb. Leaves obovate or oblong, cm. long, strongly veined. — Mich. 2. Stipules obsolete or minute. 14. S. balsamffera Barratt. , „ Leaves short-oval to oblong-lance- 662. 8. glaucophylla. ^^^^^^ broadly rounded and usually subcordate at base, at first very thin, subpellucid and of a reddish color, balsamic-fragrant, at length firm but thin, dark green above, paler or glaucous and promi- nently reticulate-veined beneath, slightly glandular-ser- rulate ; petioles long and slender ; fertile aments becoming very lax in fruit, the long slender pedicels 6-8 times the length of the gland ; style short. — Low woods and thickets, Nfd. and Lab. to Mackenzie and B. C, s. to n. N. E., N. Y., Mich., and Minn.—A much-branched shrub, rarely a tree 7 m. high, with shining reddish-castaneous or olive twigs. Fig. 653. 6. Leaves clothed, even when fully grown, with a long silky tomentum on both sides, which is finally deciduous ; capsule subsessile. 15. S. syrticola Femald. Leaves ovate or very broadly lanceolate, cuspi- date-acuminate, dull green both sides, very closely se
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