184 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



longer than the cloven stigmas. Branches smooth, highly 

 polished. 



S, decipiens. Hoffm. Sal. v. 2. 9. /. 3 1 . Fl. Germ. v. 1 . 343. E7igl. 

 Bot.v.27.tA937. Comp.edA.lGl. Rees's Cycl.n.37. Winch 

 Guide, V. 1 . 90. Forsi. Tonbr. 112. Purt. v. 3. 76. 



In low meadows, moist hedges, or osier-grounds. 



About Tonbridge, not uncommon. Forstcr. In Northumberland 

 and Durham. Winch. In many moist hedges around Lewes, 

 Sussex. Mr. Woolgor. Cultivated in several osier-grounds of 

 Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, Mr. Crowe. 



Tree. May. 



An upright but not lofty tree, distinguished by the smootli, clay- 

 coloured bark of the last year's branches, which shines like 

 porcelain, as if varnished ; the shoots of the present year being 

 stained with a fine red, or crimson. Leaves lanceolate, 3 or 3^ 

 inches long, tapering at each end, serrated throughout, with 

 copious, bluntish, somewhat incurved, tooth-like serratures ; 

 smooth on both sides, except the youngest, which are silky, es- 

 pecially their midrib. Footstalks downy along their upper side; 

 glandular, or bearing two small leaves, at the summit. Stipulas 

 half-ovate, acute, toothed, for the most part small, often want- 

 ing. Catkins on small leafy branches, with from 3 to 5, spreud- 

 ing or recurved, obovate, nearly entire, y/orai leaves; tlie barren 

 ones cylindrical, dense, 2 inches long; fertile rather longer. 

 Scales of both elliptic-oblong, obtuse, fringed and downy rather 

 than hairy, or bearded. Sfam. 2, very rarely 3, with a nectary 

 of 2 opposite unequal glands at their base. Germen lanceolate, 

 smooth, on a shortish smooth stalk, and tapering into a stout 

 smooth style, one third its own length. Stigmas obtuse, cloven, 

 half as long as the style. 



Hoffmann first distinguished and delineated this species. Many 

 botanists have confounded it with S. fragilis, to which it is re- 

 ferred in the Flora Ihitannica ; but on seeing them together 

 growing, they were readily distinguished. The ])re,';cnt is truly 

 wild in several parts of England, and is not unfrcquently culti- 

 vated, producing, for a few years, good rods for basket-work, 

 but they gradually become shorter, and not worth cultivating. 

 The tree is not inelegant, and maybe admitted into ornamental 

 plantations, in low situations, along with the Golden Osier. 



19. ^.fragilis. Crack Willow. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pointed, serrated throughout, very 

 smooth. Footstalks glandular. Germen ovate, abrupt, 

 nearly sessile, smooth. Scales oblong, about e(]u;d to the 

 stamens and pistils. Stigmas cloven, longer than the 

 style. 



