. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Noetiieen States and Canada. S5 Tlie Sand-bar Willow attains a maximum height of 60 or 70 ft. and trunk diameter of 2 ft., but on(y in a very limited portion of its vast area does it attain such dimensions. It is generally a small tree and often only a shrub 5 or 6 ft. in height. As a tree it de- velops a narrow top with upright and inclined branches, and its long narrow pendent leaves make it easily distinguishable. Comparatively rare and local in the east
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Noetiieen States and Canada. S5 Tlie Sand-bar Willow attains a maximum height of 60 or 70 ft. and trunk diameter of 2 ft., but on(y in a very limited portion of its vast area does it attain such dimensions. It is generally a small tree and often only a shrub 5 or 6 ft. in height. As a tree it de- velops a narrow top with upright and inclined branches, and its long narrow pendent leaves make it easily distinguishable. Comparatively rare and local in the east it is very abundant in the northern and western interior portions of the continent, covering the river banks and adjoining low-lands with great thickets of its flexible crowded stems. In these regions it is usually the first shrub or tree to spring up on the newly formed sand-bars, holding them with its strong roots and catching new deposits of silt, until the sturdy Cottonwoods can find foot- ing and develop their towering trunks. The wood of the Sand-bar Willow is soft and light, a cubic foot when absolutely drj' weighing lbs. and is little used save for light fuel and Leaves involute in the bud, linear-lanceolate. 2-6 in. long, gradually tapering to both ends, re- motely dentate with small glandular spreading teeth, glabrous. pubescent, yellowish green : stipules small, deciduous petioles short and not glandular. Flowers (.\pril-May) aments on terminal short leafy branchlets, often branchini:. with pubescent peduncles or from axillary buds of same branches ; scales light yellow, villous ; stamens 2 with filaments slightly hairy at base : ovary short-stalked with large sessile lobed stig- mas. Fruit capsules narrow-ovoid, glabuate. 1. Syn. Salix loiujifoUa Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resem
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