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5-5-34? Salix repens L. Cote III 265, Box 288, BVH
426, SVI 186 Young fr. Villeneuve "Water-Tower" marsh.
(This seems only pos for the long pedicled, hairy, short
styled fr. The almost glabrous ones strongest from
center). Slender wand-like stems 16-25cm from the
ground, branches (young) near the base. (Note the male
is moved each year). Wood has no raised lines as in
S. cinerea. Trivogs greened at base but def. brown-red
fr. most of their length. One stem bears catkins fr.
1/4 its length, another only 1/2 its length. Catkins
slender sessile with 2 small broad bracts Catkins 1½-
2½ cm long. Bract hairy ±1⅓ mm hairy v bearded at apex,
very dark most of its length. Gland rather less than 1mm
pedicel 5mm, fr (a.t.S) 6mm, style defles to tan ½mm.
Fr with short silky hairs largest if now is 16x4 mm
ex. pedicle & almost 2mm 1/4 slightly glaucolate, acute
glabrous except sometimes few remains of hairs on
edges); beneath glaucous. The long bract base of catkins
(±10 mm long) sometimes def silky haired beneath or
sometimes more nearly glabrous 5-25-34 Same place
fr. delivering 8t of creeping underground all los glabrous,
under surface glaucous.
??
5-5-34 Salix nigricans Smith. Cote III 267, Box 288,
SVI 190 Adv. fr. Brs behind garage J Bourret Place. Pealed
twig is rather obscurely striate (not with the short simple
raised lines of S. cinerea). Twig dark brown the young
(shinin-8mm)
shoots tomentose. Catkins rather long pedicled with
small