. 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. Bebb's Willow 203 quite entire-margined, pointed or blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, 4 to 12 cm. long, 2 to s cm. wide, hairy on both sides when very young, persistently satiny or silvery-hairy on the under side but dark green and nearly smooth on the upper sur- face when mature; their hairy stalks are i cm. long or less, their stipules broad, glandular- toothed, white-hairy, at least be- neath, early falhng away.
. 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. Bebb's Willow 203 quite entire-margined, pointed or blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, 4 to 12 cm. long, 2 to s cm. wide, hairy on both sides when very young, persistently satiny or silvery-hairy on the under side but dark green and nearly smooth on the upper sur- face when mature; their hairy stalks are i cm. long or less, their stipules broad, glandular- toothed, white-hairy, at least be- neath, early falhng away. The catkins are borne on short, few- leaved branches of the season and flower while the leaves are unfolding, from March to June according to latitude; they are from 3 to 6 cm. long, with yel- lowish hairy bracts; the staminate flowers have only one stamen, its filament smooth (2 stamens with. Fig. 165. — Satin Willow. partly united filaments are recorded as rarely observed); the pistillate flowers have a hairy ovoid ovary with a very short stalk, the slender style two or three times as long as the stigmas. In fruit the pistillate catkins become 8 cm. long or less, the woolly or hairy capsules 5 to 6 mm. long. The wood of the Satin willow is light red, soft and weak, with a specific gravity of The satiny under surfaces of its leaves make it a strikingly beautiful plant. 26. BEBB'S WILLOW —Salix Bebbiana Sargent Salix rostrata Richardson, not Thuillier Bebb's willow, named in honor of the late M. S. Bebb, a diligent student of willows, grows in various situations, preferring wet soil, from Anticosti to Hudson bay and Alaska, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Oregon, being one of the most widely distributed species. It is a shrub or small tree, occasionally 8 meters high, with a trunk 2 dm. thick or less. The thin reddish green bark is scaly, the young twigs very hairy, becoming smooth and purplish or brown, the winter buds narrow,
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