216 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



heartshaped stipulas, strongly serrated or toothed, various in 

 size, never very large. All the leaves are of a firm texture, sott 

 to the touch ; deep green and veiny, though not rugged, above j 

 glaucous, more downy and soft, beneath, with numerous, pro- 

 minent, pale or reddish vei?is, of which the transverse ones are 

 parallel, though curved, their subordinate divisions straight, 

 numerous, elegantly parallel, interbranching towards the mar- 

 gin. Catkins before the leaves, numerous, nearly sessile, an 

 inch long, thick, obtuse, downy, with very small, silky, oblong 

 bracteas. Scales lanceolate, acute, dark brown, pale at the base, 

 plentifully bearded and clothed with long silky hairs. NecL a 

 single oblong gland. Stam. 2, slender, yellow, smooth, quite 

 distinct, twice as long as the scale. Germ, lanceolate, somewhat 

 ovate at the base, silky all over, its silky stalk half the length of 

 the scale. Style short and thick. Stigmas rather longer, deeply 

 cloven. 



A very curious specimen, gathered at Duckinfield, near Stockport, 

 Cheshire, by Mr. Robert Gee, bears a monoecious catkin, the 

 lower half of which consists of perfect germens, with their styles 

 and stigmas ; the upper of a few misshapen bodies, with appa- 

 rently perfect stamens at the top. This and another instance or 

 two of the same kind, render the report of Willows changing 

 their^ow;ers, from one sort to another, though scouted by Lin- 

 naeus in his Gen. PL, not altogether incredible. 



S. cinerea is perhaps one of the most useless of the Sallow tribe, 

 which it here introduces. They are known by their oboyate, or 

 rounded, downy leaves, and thick, early, silky catkins, with pro- 

 minent, yellow, distinct stamens, two in e^ich Jioret. Hoffmann's 

 acuminata is certainly this plant, and not what I have all along 

 so named. See n. 60. I have a morsel with variegated leaves 

 from Germany. 



50. S. aurita. Round-eared, or Trailing, Sallow. 



Branches trailing. Leaves somewhat serrated, convex, 

 obovate, obtuse, with a small hooked point ; hairy, and 

 reticulated with veins, on both sides. Stipulas round- 

 ish, convex, toothed. Germen silky, stalked. Stigmas 

 nearly sessile. 



S. aurita. Liww. % PZ. 1446. H. Lapp. ec/. 2. 303. ^.8./. y. Fl. 

 £r. 1064. Fngl.BoLv.lX.i.W^l. Forst. Tonbr.lW. Hook. 

 Scot. 285. Ehrh. Arh. 39. Hoffm. Sal. v. 1. 30. t. 4./. 1, 2. 

 t.22.f.\. 



S. caprea h. Huds. 430. 



S. uliginosa. Willd. Enum. 1007. 



S. ulmifolia. Villars Dauph.v.3. 776. t.ol.f. 20. 



S. n.l652. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 3\0. 



S. folio rotundo minora. Dill, in Raii' Syn. 450. Giss. 38. ap- 

 pend. 37. 



