This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
A. glutinosa: tree; leaves roundish, wedge-shaped, obtuse, wavy, serrated, glutinous, deciduous; catkins 2-3 together in loose terminal clusters; the males long, pendent, the females ovate or oblong, and in fruit somewhat resembling miniature fir-cones. - River-sides and other wet places. Fl. March.
 
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