He did find the catkins, the male flowers, to be beautiful in the winter.

发现柔荑，即雄，在冬天很漂亮。

Some of these interesting dwarfs have only one catkin—willow bushes reduced to their lowest terms.

这些有趣的矮人中有一些只有一种柔荑草——缩减到最低度的柳树丛。

In spring it can sense when the nights are getting shorter and the temperature is warmer, and when the timing is right, it flowers with two sets of catkins.

在春天，它能感觉到夜晚越来越短，温度越来越高，当时机成熟时，它就会开出两组柔荑。

Here you find mats of the curious dwarf willow scarce an inch high, yet sending up a multitude of gray silky catkins, illumined here and there with, the purple cups and bells of bryanthus and vaccinium.

在这里，你会发现稀奇古怪的矮柳的垫子不到一英寸高，却长出大量灰色的丝状柔荑，点缀着紫和越橘的紫色杯状和铃状。