. 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. i88 The Willows southern Mexico. It is a small, slender, beautiful tree, lo to 12 meters high, with a trunk up to 4 dm. thick, the slender branches somewhat drooping. Its bark is brown, thick, and irregularly fissured; the yoimg twigs are smooth, shining, yellow-brown, becoming darker. The leaves are lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, long- pointed, smooth on both sides, even when young, firm in texture and persistent on th
. 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. i88 The Willows southern Mexico. It is a small, slender, beautiful tree, lo to 12 meters high, with a trunk up to 4 dm. thick, the slender branches somewhat drooping. Its bark is brown, thick, and irregularly fissured; the yoimg twigs are smooth, shining, yellow-brown, becoming darker. The leaves are lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, long- pointed, smooth on both sides, even when young, firm in texture and persistent on the branches until late in the autumn or into the winter; they are 12 cm. long or less, i to 2 cm. wide, finely toothed, bright green and shining on the upper side, bright white beneath; their stalks are 6 to 12 mm. long; the ovate stip- ules fall away early, or those on strong shoots persist until summer. The catkins appear in February or March on twigs of the preceding season, subtended at the base by two or more small leaves; they are small, nearly stalkless, only 2 to 3 cm. long, and their obovate blunt bracts are hairy; the staminate flowers have 3 or 4 stamens with filaments a little hairy at the Fig. 's Willow. ^ase, the pistillate ones have a short-stalked smooth ovoid ovary and almost sessile stigmas. The fruiting catkins are com- pact, cm. long or less, nearly 1 cm. thick, the very short-stalked ovoid yel- lowish capsules 3 to 4 mm. 7. PEACH-LEAVED WILLOW —SaJix amygdaloides Andersson This species inhabits river-shores and similar situations from Quebec through Ontario to Manitoba and British Columbia, extending south to New York, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, and Oregon, bein^most abundant in the Rocky moimtain region. The tree attains a maximum height of about 20 meters, with a trunk up to 6 dm. in diameter; it is usually much smaller, how- ever; it has been regarded by some authors as a variety of the Black willow. Its bark is
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