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long, sheathing the stem at base; upper leaves in a spathe-like bract folding like a hood about flowers.
Staminate flowers scattered over inner surface of involucre, each composed of a single stamen on a thread-like pedicel with a rudimentary calyx or tiny bract below it.
elliptica) sends up a naked flower-stalk, scaly at the base, often with a bract midway, and bearing at the top from seven to fifteen very fragrant, nodding, waxen, greenish-white blossoms, similar to the round-leaved wintergreen's.
a calyx divided into five or six scale-like lobes, and generally from twelve to twenty stamens, with very long anthers and very short filaments; there is also a very curious bract to each, as shown in the magnified flower at a in fig.
flowers being on a smaller and more slender catkin, and furnished with a brown roundish bract at the back of the calyx.
The male flowers have each from one to five or more stamens, with no petals or calyx, but as a substitute a bract or scale, which is entire and hairy, and which has one or more glands at its183 base.
The female flower has a similar bract or scale, and it is also without either petals or calyx; there are two stigmas, each of which is sometimes two-lobed.
81 shows the female flower of Salix fragilis at a, b is the honey gland, c the stigma, which is divided into four equal parts, and d the bract or scale with its hairy fringe; e is the male flower with its two stamens, two glands, and hairy scale.
Each scale is furnished with a thin membrane-like bract on the outside, which is conspicuous when young, but which is hidden by the scales in the ripe cone; and each has two seeds inside, which are each furnished with a long thin transparent wing (c).
The female scales (b) have each a small bract at the back, and two seeds inside, (e) the wings of which have each a little cavity214 at the lower part in which the seed lies, so that it is naked on one side, and clothed by the wing on the other.
The cones stand erect, and the dorsal bract is frequently so large as to appear above the tips of the scales; and the scales themselves are deciduous, falling off when the seeds are ripe, leaving the central rachis bare.
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