SAL1X WARDII Bebb, Gard. & For. 8: 363. 1895.
At the Falls of the Yadkin river in North Carolina both Sall% nigra and Salix Tflaniii are plentiful, the black willow growing along the water's edge on the south side of the river, while Safix IPardri occurs on the opposite shore hardly two hundred yards distant, the two species being respectively confined to the north and south sides of the river. The form of Salix Wardii occurring
there is peculiar ; the bushes are smaller than any heretofore ob served, diffusely branched and the branches decumbent or almost prostrate, spreading radially and forming large, tangled mats, seldom rising more than six inches above the ground.