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SALLOW 



coming glabrous or glabrescent, darker green, and rugose 

 above ; white or bluish hoary or tomentose beneath, with 

 crisp not silky down, and prominent reticulate venation. 



Fig. 91. Sallow, Salix Caprea, p. 255 (Ett). 



Petiole short, 1 2 cm., more or less tomentose. Stipules 

 usually large, oblique reniform dentate, deciduous. Buds 

 at length smooth. Autumn leaves yellow to brown. 



Venation like that of S. nigricans, but usually more 

 prominent beneath and sunk above, and the leaf elliptical 

 or rounded ovate and broader. There are no stomata 

 above. 



[8. Caprea, var. cinerea, has usually narrower lanceolate- 

 obovate leaves, tapering below, and about 5 12 x 2 5 

 cm. ; but they vary to oblong or oblong-obovate to obovate ; 



