. 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. Hoary or Sage Willow. Fig. 1467. Salix Candida Fluegge; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 708. 1806. An erect shrub, 2°-s° tall, the older twigs red or purple and terete, the younger densely white- tomentose. Leaves mostly persistently white- tomentose beneath, green and loosely tomentose or becoming glabrate above when mature, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, thick, sparingly rep
. 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. Hoary or Sage Willow. Fig. 1467. Salix Candida Fluegge; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 708. 1806. An erect shrub, 2°-s° tall, the older twigs red or purple and terete, the younger densely white- tomentose. Leaves mostly persistently white- tomentose beneath, green and loosely tomentose or becoming glabrate above when mature, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, thick, sparingly repand-denticu- late or entire, acute at both ends or the lower obtuse at the apex, 2-4' long, 3"-8" wide, their margins slightly revolute; petioles ii"-2" long; stipules lanceolate-subulate, about equalling the petioles, deciduous; aments expanding before the leaves, dense, cylindric, the staminate about 1' long,' the pistillate 1'-2' long in fruit; bracts villous, persist- ent; stamens 2; filaments glabrous; style filiform, red, three times as long as the stigmas; capsule ovoid-conic, acute, densely tomentose, 2V-3" long, very short-pedicelled. In bogs, Newfoundland to Athabasca, Wyoming, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa and South Dakota. Hybrid- izes with S. petiolaris and S. cordata. 18. Salix pellita Anders. Satiny Willow. Fig. 1468. S\ pellita Anders. Vet. Acad. Handl. 6: 139. 1867. A shrub, s°-8° high, or sometimes a small tree, the twigs reddish to olive-brown. Leaves oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, ii'-4' long, entire or ob- scurely crenulate, acute at both ends, or bluntish at the apex, bright green and glabrous above, pale and satiny-pubescent or nearly glabrous beneath, short- petioled; aments on short leafy branches, the pistillate ones becoming 2' long in fruit; stamens 2, glabrous; bracts villous; capsule densely white-pubescent, 2"- 2J" long, short-conic with a rounded base, very short- pedicelled; style longer than th
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