. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 38. Salix glauca L. Northern Willow. Fig. 1488. Salix glauca L. Sp. PI. 1019. 1753. S. atra Rydb. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 272. 1899. 51. labradorica Rydb. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 274. 1899. A low arctic shrub, with terete brown twigs, the young shoots and leaves densely tomentose, becoming glabrate when old. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceo- late, entire
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 38. Salix glauca L. Northern Willow. Fig. 1488. Salix glauca L. Sp. PI. 1019. 1753. S. atra Rydb. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 272. 1899. 51. labradorica Rydb. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 274. 1899. A low arctic shrub, with terete brown twigs, the young shoots and leaves densely tomentose, becoming glabrate when old. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceo- late, entire, obtuse or acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, i'-3' long, i'-i' wide; petioles i"-s" long; stipules deciduous; aments borne on short leafy branches, the staminate dense, about 1' long, the pistillate 2'-$' long in fruit, rather loose; stamens 2; filaments distinct; bracts persistent, yellowish or brownish, densely wnite-villous; capsule ovoid-conic, densely white-tomentose, sessile or very short- pedicelled, 3"-4" long; style about as long as the stigmas. Greenland and Labrador to Alaska. Also in arctic and alpine Europe, and Asia. The American races differ slightly from those of the Old World. Summer. 39. Salix anglorum Cham. Brown's Willow. Fig. 1489. Salix arctica R. Br. Ross' Voy. cxliv. 1819. Not Pall. Salix anglorum Cham. Linnaea 6: 541. 1831. 5". Brownii Lundst. Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Ups. 16: 6. 1877. A low, much branched shrub, the twigs 4-angled, slender. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, glabrous or sometimes ciliolate, mostly acute at the apex, entire, narrowed at the base, short-petioled, i's' long, 3"- 12" wide, blackening in drying, the lower surface pale or glaucous, the margins not revolute; stipules narrow, deciduous; aments borne on short leafy branches,_ large, the pistillate i'-2i' long in fruit; bracts villous, persistent, obovate, obtuse, dark brown; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; style filiform, much longer than the stig
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