230 DIOECIA-DIANDRIA. Salix. 



nearly sessile, small, elliptical. Bracteas few, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, covered at the back with long silky hairs. Scales obovate, 

 dark brown upwards, reaching to the middle of the silky, ovate- 

 lanceolate, stalked germen, and clothed with long dense hairs, 

 not reaching to its top. Nect. ovate-oblong, bluntish. Style at 

 first but half the length of the linear, deeply cloven, stigmas } 

 but becoming afterwards about as long. Caps, silky, tapering, 

 on a hairy stalk, and tipped with the permanent style and stig- 

 mas. 

 This was given to Mr. Crowe for the true Velvet Osier, and its 

 remarkal)le softness suggested the name of Salix moUissima ; 

 which we afterwards discovered, as we thought, to have been 

 given to the same species by Ehrhart. But his moUissima I 

 have lately ascertained to be totally distinct, in catkins as well 

 as leaves ; which VVilldenow first perceiving, was pleased to give 

 our English plant the appellation here adopted. His holosericea 

 is, I believe, the Velvet Osier. Both that and the 7nolUssima 

 are German, not British, natives. It is important for cultiva- 

 tors of Osiers to distinguish them carefully, for the Velvet Osier 

 is, for some kinds of work, greatly esteemed ; whereas S. Smith- 

 iana, notwithstanding the account received by Mr. Crowe, see 

 Ft. Brit. 1 070, proves of no utility. 



63. S. st'ipular'is. Auricled Osier. 



Leaves lanceolate, pointed, slightly wavy, obscurely ere- 

 nate; soft and nearly naked above; white and downy 

 beneath. Stipulas halt-heartshaped, stalked, very large. 

 Nectary cylindrical. Germen ovate, nearly sessile, as 

 well as the linear, undivided stigmas. 



S. stipularis. H. Br. 1069. Engl.Bot. v. 17. t. 1214. Rces'sCycl. 

 n. 136. Hook. Scot. 286. fVilld. Sp. PL v. 4. 708. 



In osier-holts, hedges and woods. 



Near Bury St. Edmund's. Mr. Crowe. Common in hedges and 

 woods in Scotland ; Mr. David Don. Hooker. 



Shrub. March. 



Twigs upright, tall, soft and downy, of a pale reddish brown, brittle, 

 and of little or no use as an Osier. Leaves almost upright, nu- 

 merous, about a span long, sharp-pointed, unequally and slightly 

 crenatej green,evenandsoft, though hardly downy, above; finely 

 downy, and whitish, beneath, with a nearly smooth, reddish, or 

 pale, midrib, and remarkably downy, as it were fringed, veins. 

 Footstalks stout, half or three quarters of an inch long. Stipulas pe- 

 culiar, being moreor less stalked, half-heartshaped, taper-pointed, 

 erect, longer than the footstalks, toothed, or lobed, on the outer 

 side at the base, downy at the back. Catkins much earlier than 

 the foliage, numerous, almost sessile, erect, with a few lanceo- 

 late, acute, silky bracteas; the barren ones rather above an inch 



