The  stem  is  reddish  or  olive-green,  or  gray,  striated,  with
an  orange-grayish,  or  clay-colored  epidermis.  The  shoots  are
downy,  of  a  reddish  purple,  or  yellowish,  or  reddish  above,
where  exposed  to  the  sun,  and  green  beneath.  In  diying,
they  turn  to  a  brown  or  dark  purple.  The  leaves  are  on
short,  downy  footstalks;  obovate,  oblong-elliptical,  or  broad
lanceolate,  often  inequilateml,  rounded  or  tapering  at  base,
acuminate  on  the  ends  of  the  branches  and  recent  shoots,
with  the  acumination  turned  half  round ;   near  the  stem.
(Salix   Uvidiij  UMAKUD  WUtLOW  (Salix  rosLnil,, )


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shorter  and  broader,  pointed,  or  obtuse ;  downy,  or  smooth,
but  with  the  surface  always  conspicuously  netted  with  de-
pressed veins  above,  and  white-downy  beneath.  Margin
entire  or  waved,  crenulate  or  serrate,  the  serratiires  ending  in
a  black  point.  The  stipules  are  ear-shaped,  often  nearly  en-
tire, sometimes  cleft  to  the  base,  sometimes  toothed,  and
pointed  above  and  below,  or  serrate.  The  leaves,  when  young
are  downy  on  both  surfaces.
Sp.  8.    The  White  Willow.    S.  alba.    L.    Introduced.
Figured  in  Sowerby's  English  Botany,  2430.   The  tree  in  Loudon,  Arb.,  YIL,  209.
Leaves  lanceolate  or  elliptic-lanceolate,  pointed,  toothed,  clothed  more
or  less  with  white  and  silky  hairs,  especially  beneath;  stipules  lanceolate;
stigmas  nearly  sessile,  thick  and  recurved.  Var.  vitellina  has  yellow  or
light  red  branches:  leaves  shorter  and  broader.  (S.  vitellina,  Smith  jr
Borrer,  S.  Pameachi^ia,  Darratt,)  Var.  CiER^LEA  has  the  leaves  nearly
smooth  at  maturity,  and  greatly  resembles  the  next  species.  (S.  cseriilea,
Smith),  A  familiar  tree,  of  rapid  growth,  attaining  a  height  of  fifty  to
eighty  feet.
