Identifier: treebookpopularg1920roge (find matches)
Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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THE PUSSY WILLOW (Salix discolor)This is the familiar bog willow whose grey, silky catkins appear in earliest spring. People rarely see this tree in summer
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z Mature staminate flower 2 Immature staminate flower 3 Mature pistillate flower 4 Fruii unripe 5 Fruit ripe THE PUSSY WILLOW (SaJix discolor) On staminate trees the catkins turn yellow by the ripening of the pollen in the anthers. On pistillate trees the catkinsare made up of pistils, each on a silky, entire scale. In late spring these matured pistils form beaked, 2-valved pods. The seedsire minute, and each has a silky float The WiUoxvi reddish bark. Leaves i to 3 inches long, oblong-obovate, acuteor blunt at apex, sparingly toothed or entire, dull green anddowny above, distinctly veined and pale blue or silvery, hairybeneath; petioles short; stipules semi-cordate, acute, deciduous.Flowers with leaves, sessile, erect, terminal; staminate silkywhite, becoming golden; pistillate silky, with yellow stigmaswhich spread in pairs. Fruits pubescent, beaked capsules;stalk much longer than scale. Preferred habitat, dry soil or streamborders. Distribution, throughout British America and south

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