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SALIX tetrapla.
Four-ranked Willow.
DICECIA Diandria.
Gen. Char. Male,, Cal. a scale of an imbricated catkin,
single-flowered. Cor. none. Nect. a gland
or glands at the base of the stamens. Stam.
1—5 (or more). Female,, Cal. & Nect. as in the
male. Cor. none. Caps, of 1 cell and 2 valves.
Seeds tufted.
S pec. Char. Upright. Leaves lanceolate, twisted,
somewhat carinate, very acutely pointed, serrated,
nearly naked on both sides; glaucous beneath.
Stipules small, half-heartshaped. Young shoots
and leaf-stalks pubescent. Calyx-scales lanceolate,
silky. Germen stalked, bluntish ; naked in
the lower part. Style longer than the divided
stigmas.
Syn. Salix tetrapla. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 4. 177.
Hook. Brit. FL 429.
F r o m cuttings gathered in Breadalbane in 1810, which
have become upright shrubs, 12—15 feet high, with straight
spreading twigs, slightly tinged with brown, and covered in
the first season with close short pubescence. Leaves spreading,
in general almost horizontally, rather thick and rigid,
scarcely two inches long, except on luxuriant youngshoots,
tapering at each end, somewhat acuminate, with a very sharp
point; edges slightly cartilaginous, scarcely recurved, serrated
throughout, the serratures variable in size, often obscure,
especially towards the base of the leaf, mostly shallow,
tipped with a minute gland; both surfaces sprinkled
with appressed hairs when young, ultimately naked, except