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S. lanata. Light/. G02 ; in his herbarium. 



S. capreae varietas. Hofm. Sal. v. 1 . 28. t. 5./ 4j excellent. /. 2 1 . 

 /.d? 



In valleys among the Highlands of Scotland. Lightfoot. 



At Finlarig, near the head of Loch Tay. Rev. Dr. Stuart. 



Tree. April, May. 



A small bushy tree, six or eight feet high, tlie young branches very 

 soft, with dense, hoary, short, velvet-like down. Leaves in like 

 manner soft and downy, especially when first opening, always of a 

 greyish aspect; their shape obovate, or elliptical, with a small ob- 

 lique point ; their length an inch and half, perhaps two or t\yo and 

 half at their full growth ; the margin either quite entire, or slightly, 

 sparingly, and unequally serrated ; the upper side light green, 

 clothed with fine down which finally disappears ; under more 

 downy, with a prominent rib and veins, hoary, not glaucous; 

 the tip, from its earliest formation, nearly naked, green, or 

 brownish, soon looking as if blasted, or withered, assuming a 

 tawny hue. This character, which struck me in the few dried 

 specimens I had seen, is eminently conspicuous in the plentiful 

 foliage of the living plant, which I saw for the first time, and 

 instantly recognized, in the rich collection of Mr. E. Forster, at 

 Hale End, in May 1825. The footstalks are shortish, thickly 

 downy. Stipulas half-heartshaped, toothed, erect, green and 

 smooth, never large, often wanting. Catkins on short hairy 

 stalks, with several ovate, sessile, not large, bracteas, densely 

 silky at the back ; barren ones above an inch long, cylindrical, 

 not half the size of S. caprea; fertile somewhat larger and 

 stouter, finally measuring full an inch and half. Scales of both 

 obovate, downy and bearded, black in their upper half. Neat. 

 oblong, abrupt, constricted in the middle. Slant, twice as long 

 as the scale, with roundish, pale-yellow anthers. Germ, lanceo- 

 late, silky, on a hairy stalk as long as the scale. Stijle very 

 short. Stigm. thick, either undivided or notched, not deeply 

 cloven . Caps, light reddish brown, somewhat silky or downy. 



Mr. Lightfoot's specimen leaves no doubt of his plant, and his de- 

 scription appears to be original. He might well, by the figure 

 of .S. lanata in Fl. Lapp., mistake it for that species, and yet 

 nothing can be more distinct than the real lanata ; see n. 40. 

 Mr. Davall gathered our sphacelata near Orbe in Switzerland. 

 It maybe comprehended under Haller'sn.1651; see S.aqualica. 



59. S. caprea. Great Round-leaved Sallow. 



Stem erect. Leaves roundish-ovate, pointed, seri'ated, 

 waved; pale and downy beneath. Stipulas somewhat 

 crescent-shaped. Catkins oval. Germen stalked, ovate, 

 silky. Stigmas nearly sessile, undivided. Capsules 

 swelling. 



S, caprea. Linn. Sf, Vl.\\A%, a.. Willd. v.4. 703, (excluding 



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