228 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



A variety, as Mr. Crowe like myself always thought it, found in a 

 copse of his at Tuck's wood, near Norwich, has smaller, more 

 rugged, leaves; and rather smaller catkiyis; but this may arise 

 from their different ages on my specimens. In the germen, its 

 stalk, or the style and stigmas, I do not find any difference. 

 These i)arts are not arrived at full maturity in the specimen 

 delineated in Engl. Bot. 



Prof. Mertens first convinced me that the acuminata of Hoffmann 

 is not this Salix, but an indubitable variety of aquatica. The 

 name acuminata may well remain with our present plant ; whose 

 qualities I believe are inferior, except possibly in the wood, to 

 those of the caprea. It is certainly not caprea y of Linn. Sp. PL, 

 which proves, by an original specimen from Gmelin himself, the 

 serotina of Pallas ; see Rees's Cycl. n.83. This latter is more- 

 over S. Gmelinianaoi Willdenowj Sp. PI. v. 4.709. 



61. S. viminalis. Common Osier. 



Leaves linear, inclining to lanceolate, elongated, taper- 

 pointed, entire, wavy; snow-white and silky beneath. 

 Branches straight and slender. Germen sessile. Style 

 as long as the linear undivided stigmas. 



S. viminalis. Linn. Sp. PL 1448. mild. v. 4. 706. Fl. Br. 1070. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 27. M898. Rees's CycL n. 134. Hook. Scot. 287. 

 H(^m. SaL v. 1 . 22. t. 2.f. 1 , 2. ^ 5./. 2. ^ 2 1 ./. 2, e, f, g. Ehrh. 

 Arb.69. Beitr.v.6. 102. 



S. n. 1641. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 307. 



S. folio longissimo. Raii Syn. 4i)0. Cant. 146. 



S. angustis et longissimis foliis crispis, subtus albicantibus. Bauh. 

 Hist.v. l.;j. 2.212./. 



S. aquatica. Ger. Em. 1389. n. 2./. bad. 



Elseagnus. Dalech. Hist. 278./. 



In wet meadows, osier-holts, and on the banks of rivers, common. 



Tree. April, May. 



Branches straight, erect, wand-like, very long and slender, round, 

 polished ; downy when young, with fine silky hairs. Leaves on 

 short stalks, almost upright, about a span long and half an inch 

 wide, being nearly linear, acute, entire, though slightly wavy at 

 the edges, and somewhat revolute ; the upper side green, smooth, 

 even ; under pure white, with close, cottony, or rather silky, 

 down ; the midrib reddish, with numerous, short, curved trans- 

 verse veins. Stipulas linear-lanceolate, sometimes toothed at 

 one side, variable in size, and often wanting. Catkins numerous, 

 lateral, sessile, cylindrical, full an inch long, with several small, 

 lanceolate Lracteas. Scales small, ovate, or rounded, brown, 

 bearded and clothed with white hairs, which do not reach to the 

 summit of the o^ernie??. A''ec?. ovate-oblong, flattened, obtuse. 

 Germ, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, silky, ^7^//e about a quarter 



