SHINING WILLOW (Falix lucida, Muehl.). Shrub to 25 feet. Broad, round headed shrub or small tree, with stout, smooth, shining twigs, orange at first, becoming tinged with red. Dark brown with reddish tinge, thin, smooth. Leaves lanceolate, tapering, with round or wedge-shaped base, serrate edges, 3 to 5 inches long, leathery, dark green, with yellow ribs, paler beneath; petioles stout, yellow, glandular at apex. Flowers
in erect, fuzzy catkins, densely flowered, on ends of short twigs. Fruits, capsules, cylindrical, shining, a inch long, with minute seeds in silky down. Dist.: Newfoundland to Mackenzie River and eastern slopes of Rocky Mountains; south to Penn sylvania and Nebraska.