DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 189 



S. rosea Anglica. Ger. Em, 1390./. bad. 



Salicis racemi seu micamenta, rosae et capitula squammata. Bauh. 

 Hist.v.\.p.2.2\3.f, 



In marshes, osier-holts, and about the banks of rivulets. 



'I'ree, March, April. 



A tree of humble growth, but erect, about ten feet high, smooth 

 in every part, altogether of a lighter hue than the last ; the 

 branches not trailing, but upright, smooth and polished, of a 

 pale yellowish, or purplish, ash-colour, tough and pliable, less 

 slender and elongated than the foregoing, though useful for the 

 coarser sorts of basket-work. Leaves^ as well as catkins, often 

 opposite and alternate on the same plant 3 the former lanceolate, 

 pointed, much drawn out, as it were, into a linear shape towards 

 the base ; finely serrated, chiefly upwards j their colour a light, 

 rather glaucous, green, turning blackish in drying. Footstalks 

 short and stout. Stipulas none, except on very vigorous shoots, 

 from the roots of trees that have been felled, where they are 

 sometimes of considerable size, half-heartshaped, wavy and 

 obtuse. Catkins larger than those of S. purpurea, the fertile 

 ones especially full twice as thick, by which invariable and ob- 

 vious character the two species, when in blossom, are, as Mr. 

 Crowe first observed, readily distinguishable. Scales obovate, 

 hairy 3 their upper half dark brown 3 those of the fertile florets 

 notched. Nect. a tumid gland, opposite to the scale. Stavi. 

 scarcely longer than the scale. Anth. of 4 lobes, and 4 cells. 

 Gerin. silky, ovate, not elliptical. Style smooth, full as long 

 as the linear, cloven, not ovate, stigmas. Caps, ovale, silky, 

 light brown, accompanied by the permanent styles, stigmas and 

 blackened scales 3 the whole fertile catkin having that downy 

 aspect noted by Haller, whose plant in Reynier's herbarium is 

 certainly our's. On a more careful sc rutiny of Mr. Curtis's ex- 

 cellent plate, the fertile catkins appear to belong to S. purpu- 

 rea, which he was led to consider as the same species. The 

 roselike expansions at the end of the branches, caused by the 

 puncture of an insect, and permanent through the winter, I 

 have never seen but on the -S'. ficlix, except once on ^\ aurita, 

 n. 50. 

 The leaves and twigs are less bitter than the former, and the greater 

 size of the trunk, as well as branches, renders this species fit 

 for several purposes which that is not. It also makes a better 

 figure in i)lantations, and the roots give more solidity to the 

 banks of rivers or ditches. 

 The gcrmcn and sligmas in Iloftmann's plates do not answer to our 

 plant. 



23. 8. Lainbet'tiaiia . Boyton Willow. 



Bnuulics erect. Leaves partly oppo^^ite, ()hovato-lnncet>- 



