Identifier: northamericansyl04mich (find matches)
Title: The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce. To which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees ..
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855. cn Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859. 1n Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Philadelphia, Rice, Rutter & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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iusce longioribus, stigmaiibussubsessilibus. Salix nivalis.—Hooker, Flor. Bor. Am., vol. ii. This elegant and very diminutive shrub, merely about twoinches high, was obtained in the same alpine ravine as theformer, but on a plain elevated to the very line of perpetualsnow, at the height of about 10,000 feet above the ocean-level.The stems are smooth, brown, and woody, sending out very fewshort branches terminated by scanty tufts of smooth coriaceousleaves, two or three lines wide and about four lines long. Themale plant we have not seen; the female catkin is producedupon a pubescent pedicel nearly its length; the flowers areabout six, sessile, and the subtending scales smooth, retuse, andnerved. The germ is short-ovate and silky, terminated by asessile or almost sessile quadrifid stigma. This species is allied to the /Salix myrtllloldes, but at the sametime perfectly distinct. PLATE XIX. A fertile Inlaid of the natural magnitude, a. A leaf. b. The young capsuU and. its scale. PL XXI
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Diiskr WiUo Salix Melaiiopsis Saide nu/rdlve DUSKY WILLOW. Salix melanopsis. Foliis lineari-lanceolaiis serrulatis glahris hasi attenu-aiis vix peiiolaiis, siipuUs nullis, amentis comtaneis diandris, squamisstriatis obiusis, capsulis glahris lanceolaiis subsessilibus. This species, which I have called Dusky Willow from thedark appearance it assumes in drying, we met with at ourstation called Fort Hall, in the plains of the Rocky Mountains,on the alluvial lands of Lewis River of the Shoshonee, notgrowing in masses, but scattered over the banks of the river inthe more elevated situations, and there attaining the magnitudeof a small tree twelve to fifteen feet high, with a spreadingsummit, and when in flower forming a very elegant object. Itis closely related to the Triandrous Willow of Europe, (Salixtriandra,) but still sufficiently distinct. It never, like thatspecies, becomes a considerable tree, but more resembles in itsmagnitude and mode of growth our common Black Willow,(S. nigra.)

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