. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. LONG-STALK WILLOW. WARD WILLOW. Salix longipes Anders.^ Fig. 89. Fruiting branchlets, i ; detached capsules, 2 ; leaves from vigorous shoots, 3 ; branchletsin winter, 4. 90. Trunk of small tree. Meramec River valley. Mo. Handbook of Trees of A^o. KKX Sl AND Can. A small tree, rarely over Mi ft. in height or>S or 10 in. in thickness of trunk, which isvested in a dark brown bark rough withprominent firm ridges. It is often found fruit-ing as a shrub. It difTers from the BlackWillow in dis
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. LONG-STALK WILLOW. WARD WILLOW. Salix longipes Anders.^ Fig. 89. Fruiting branchlets, i ; detached capsules, 2 ; leaves from vigorous shoots, 3 ; branchletsin winter, 4. 90. Trunk of small tree. Meramec River valley. Mo. Handbook of Trees of A^o. KKX Sl AND Can. A small tree, rarely over Mi ft. in height or>S or 10 in. in thickness of trunk, which isvested in a dark brown bark rough withprominent firm ridges. It is often found fruit-ing as a shrub. It difTers from the BlackWillow in distribution in that it is found morealong the rocky or gravelly banks or beds ofstreams, where its dark colored bark and smallcrooked trunks are found so close to the rush-ini; waters that they are often bruised andbattered by the passing flood-wood, while theBlack Willow is found along the banks of stillflowing streams of tlie bottom-lands, where thewaters are less turbulent. Its geographicrange is not yet well determined. Its wood is light, soft, not strong and of areddish brown color with thin nearl
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