190 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



late, pointed, serrated, smooth ; rounded at the base. 

 Stipulas none. Stamen one. Stigmas ovate, obtuse, 

 notched, very short, nearly sessile. 



S. Lambertiana. H. ^r. 1041. Engl Bot. v. ]9. t. 1359. mild. 

 Sp.PLv.4.673. 



In low meadows, osier-grounds, and on the banks of rivers in 

 many places. 



On the banks of the river Willy, at Boyton, Wilts, for the course 

 of 1 6 miles j also in osier-holts near Staines. Mr. Lambert. 

 About Lackford bridge, near Icklingham, Suffolk. Mr. Crowe. 

 On the banks of the' river near St. Martin's gates, Norwich ; 

 also near Henley upon Thames. 



Tree. March, Jpril. 



Of the size and habit of the last, but very distinct from it at first 

 sight, particularly the tender summits of the young growing 

 branches, which, with their purplish glaucous hue, and some 

 degree of downiness, resemble those of a Honeysuckle. Leaves 

 frequently opposite, shorter and broader than those of the pre- 

 ceding, dilated upwards, and more or less obtuse at the ex- 

 tremity, with a small point ; their base rounded, or abrupt, a 

 little unequal; the margin sharply and distinctly serrated almost 

 throughout, but most above the middle j both sides very smooth ; 

 the under glaucous ; they turn black in drying. I could never 

 discover any stipulas. The footstalks are rather short and stout, 

 always very smooth. Catkins not more than half the size of those 

 of S. Helix, with rounded, blackish, hairy scales. Nectary much 

 like that species. Stam. longer than the scale, with a four- 

 lobed anther. Germ, sessile, of a short ovate, or nearly ellip- 

 tical, tumid shape, densely downy, or silky. Style hardly any. 

 Stigmas small, ovate, obtuse, spreading, furrowed and finally 

 cloven into two rounded lobes. 



Mr. Borrer has sent what I presume to be a variety of this species, 

 found and distinguished by Mr. Woolgar, near Lewes, in which 

 the leaves on the upper part of strong shoots are remarkably 

 broad towards the extremity, being almost wedge-shaped 3 

 germen shorter and more elliptical j stigmas with very round 

 and short lobes. Mr. Borver suggests that what Hoffmann has 

 given as the fertile plant of his S. monandra, our Helix, is surely 

 this, with which the germen and short round-lobed stigmas 

 exactly agree, and not at all with those of Helix. Whatever 

 this plant may prove, S. Lambertiana is doubtless very distinct 

 from Helix, differing materially in the form of its leaves as well 

 as stigmas. The dried leaves, 'especially those of our supposed 

 variety, give a smoky- black stain to papers between which they 

 are laid, which is the case, though less remarkably, with S. 

 Forbiana, and some others. 



