. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WILLOW FAMILY SHINING WILLOW Scilix litctda. A bushy tree sometimes twenty feet in height, found on banks of streams and swamps, with short trunk and erect branches which form a round-topped symmetrical head. Ranges from Newfoundland westward across the continent to the Rocky Mountains, southward as far as Pennsylvania and Nebraska. Bark.—Smooth, dark brown. Branchlets smooth at first, orange color and shining, later dark brown. Winter Buds.—Ovate, acute, light brown, one-fourth of an i
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. WILLOW FAMILY SHINING WILLOW Scilix litctda. A bushy tree sometimes twenty feet in height, found on banks of streams and swamps, with short trunk and erect branches which form a round-topped symmetrical head. Ranges from Newfoundland westward across the continent to the Rocky Mountains, southward as far as Pennsylvania and Nebraska. Bark.—Smooth, dark brown. Branchlets smooth at first, orange color and shining, later dark brown. Winter Buds.—Ovate, acute, light brown, one-fourth of an inch long. Leaves.—Alternate, oblong-lanceolate, three to five inches long, narrowed or wedge-shaped, or rounded at base, finely serrate, acute with long tapering often falcate points. Involute in bud, they come out green, when full grown are leathery, smooth, shining, dark green above, paler beneath, midrib conspicuously prominent beneath. Petioles short, stout, yellow, grooved, glandular. Stipules semi- circular, serrate, membranous and often persistent. Flowers.—April, before the leaves. Staminate catkins oblong-cylindrical, densely flowered, an inch to an inch and a half long, terminal, on short leafy branches ; stamens five. Pistillate catkins slender, an inch and a half to two inches long, becoming three or four inches long when the fruit ripens, often persisting until late. Fruit.—Capsule, cylindrical, one-third of an inch long, shining. PEACH WILLOW—ALMONDLEAF WILLOW Shlix amygdaloides. Sometimes sixty to seventy feet high, with straight trunk and straight ascending branches, usually much smaller. Follows the water-courses and ranges across the continent ; less abundant in New England than elsewhere. In the west it be- comes the common willow along the banks of streams. 398. Almondleaf Willow, Salix amygdaloides. Lea wes 2/ to 3' Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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