DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 217 



/3. S. capvea numila, folio subrotundo, subtus incano. Dill, in 

 Rail Sijn. 450. 



S. aurita. IFilld. Sp. PL v.i. 700; excluding the specif c char. 

 Enum. 1007. 



In moist upland woods and thickets. 



/3. In low wet pastures. 



Shrub. Jprif, May. 



Stem bushy, usually 3 or 4 feet high ; in the variety /3 scarcely a 

 foot. Branches spreading or trailing, either amongst other 

 bushes, or on the ground, to a great extent, whence the name 

 of Trailing Sallow by which it is known in Norfolk ; they are 

 roundish, brown, hoaiy J rather angular, purplish, and downy, 

 as well as leafy, when young. Leaue^ various in size, on short, 

 stout, ^oviuy footstalks, obovate, generally an inch or two long, 

 more or less contracted toward the base, though sometimes 

 rounded, or nearly ovate, in that part j their termination is 

 often remarkably obtuse, or abrupt, with abroad, short, recurved, 

 hooked, or oblique, point ; both sides hairy and very rugged ; 

 the uppermost dark green, wrinkled like a cabbage leaf 3 under 

 side paler, rather glaucous, more hairy or downy, and strongly 

 veined 3 the margin in some measure revolute, coarsely serrated 

 and crisped. The earliest leaves^ appearing soon after the 

 blossoms, are but ^ or i of an inch long, abrupt and entire j 

 very denselv downy beneath; similar to which, though partlv 

 serrated and less hoary, is the whole foliage of the variety /3. 

 Stiputas half-heartshaped, or rounded, convex, strongly vemed 

 and toothed, as well as wrinkled ; glaucous and vaulted beneath ; 

 very various in size, but never wholly absent. Catkins before 

 the leaves, nearly or quite sessile, elliptic-oblong, with very 

 small, lanceolate, hairy bracteas; barren ones not an inch long 

 at most; fertile longer, especially as they advance in age. 

 Scales oblong-lanceolate, or narrowly obovate, thin, bearded, 

 whitish with a brown tip, soon withering. Nect. a tumid, 

 abrupt, yellowish gland. Stam. twice the length of their scale. 

 Germ, on a hairy stalk, which is hardly ecpial to the scale ; ovate, 

 or, when fully formed, more lanceolate and tapering, all over 

 downy, or silky. Style sc;n-cely any. Stigmas ovate, thick, 

 finally notched. The leaves occasionally form permanent rosace- 

 ous tufts, like those of .S. Helix, n. 21. 



There are some gradations between the common ai)pearance ot 

 this Salix, and its ultimate very small-leaved variety p ; but, 

 on the other hand, I scarcely think Dillenius correct in saymg 

 there were " some prcttv tall trees of it in hedges near Clussel- 

 hurst." These must rather have been the cimrea, or the acjua- 

 tica. Botanists, even the most attentive, have confoundeil both 

 these species occasionally with tiie present, and have gone so 

 far as to suppose them all varieties of S.capna. 

 I have received, bv favour of Mr, 11. Totter, two specimens of p, 



