. 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. 20. Salix petiolaris J. E. Smith. Slender Willow. Fig. 1470. S. petiolaris ]. E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 6: 122. 1802. 5. gracilis Anders. Proc. Am. Acad. 4: 67. 1858^ A shrub, similar to the preceding species, but the young leaves only slightly silky, the branches slender, upright or ascending. Mature leaves lanceo- late, acuminate at both ends, serrulate wit
. 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. 20. Salix petiolaris J. E. Smith. Slender Willow. Fig. 1470. S. petiolaris ]. E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 6: 122. 1802. 5. gracilis Anders. Proc. Am. Acad. 4: 67. 1858^ A shrub, similar to the preceding species, but the young leaves only slightly silky, the branches slender, upright or ascending. Mature leaves lanceo- late, acuminate at both ends, serrulate with blunt cartilaginous teeth, remaining green in drying, 4"- 8" wide; petioles 2"-s" long; stipules deciduous; aments expanding before the leaves, the pistillate short-peduncled, usually rather loose, about 1' long in fruit; bracts villous, oblong to obovate; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; stigmas nearly sessile; cap- sule tapering from an ovoid or oblong base, pubes- cent, 24"-4' long, usually about twice as long as the filiform pedicel. Swamps, New Brunswick to Manitoba, Tennessee, Michigan and North Dakota. Dark long-leaved willow. May. 21. Salix Bebbiana Sarg. Beaked, Livid or Bebb's Willow. Fig. 1471. Salix rostrata Richards. Frank. Journ. App. 753. 1823. Not Thuill. 1799. Salix Bebbiana Sarg. Gard. & For. 8: 463. 1895. A shrub, 6°-i8° tall, or sometimes a tree 25° high, the twigs pubescent or puberulent, terete. Leaves elliptic, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, acuminate or some of them blunt at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, spar- ingly serrate or entire, dull green and puberu- lent above, pale, reticulate-veined and tomen- tose beneath or nearly glabrous on both sides when very old; petioles 2"-6" long; stipules semicordate, acute, deciduous; aments sessile, expanding with or before the leaves, dense, the staminate i'-il' long, the pistillate 2' long in fruit; bracts villous; stamens 2; filaments distinct, glabrous
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