DIOECIA^DIANDRIA. Salix. 221 



Shrub, April. 



About 2 feet high ; sometimes, if sheltered, 6 or 8 feet, always 

 upright, with straight, round, brown, downy, moderately spread- 

 ing, branches. Leaves an inch, or inch and half long, and an 

 inch wide, flat, broadly elliptical, frequently almost orbicular, 

 with a broad short point; the base rounded, or obtuse ; the mar- 

 gin beset with very shallow serratures, or more generally with 

 small glandular teeth; upper side dull green, covered with 

 minute, depressed, scattered hairs ; under pale, or slightly 

 glaucous, more loosely hairy, especially the rib, and transverse 

 parallel veins, whose subdivisions compose a fine rectangular 

 network. The substance of the leaves is firm and rigid, and 

 their aspect resembles a Quince leaf, or rather perhaps Rhus 

 Cotiniis, except the latter being of a brighter green, and smooth. 

 They blacken in drying, though less than the following. Foot- 

 stalks stout, downy. Stipulas small, rounded, or ovate, wither- 

 ing. Buds hairy. Catkins much earlier than the foliage, sessile, 

 erect, cylindrical, short and obtuse, scarcely one fourth the size 

 of the foregoing, with 2 or 3 small shaggy bracteas. Scales 

 obovate, broad and rounded, blackish, bearded with long hairs. 

 Nect. small and blunt. Germ, ovate-lanceolate, silky, on a 

 partly downy stalk, which is shorter than the scale. Style thick, 

 smooth, longer than is usual in the Sallow tribe, being equal to 

 the linear, obtuse, notched stigmas. Caps, tapering, brown, 

 nearly smooth. 



Villars supposes this may be an " intermediate variety " between 

 the hastaia and lanata of Linnasus ; but it is impossible to make 

 out what he intends by the latter, except that it is not the true 

 one, nor could his spadicea have been ascertained but by a spe- 

 cimen from himself. It is precisely our cotinifolia, which name 

 I retain, as far preferable in itself, and nearly of the same date ; 

 spadicea does not in apy sense apply. No species can be more 

 clearly distinct. 



54. S. hirfa. Hairy-branched Sallow. 



Stem erect. Branches densely hairy. Leaves elliptic- 

 heartshaped, pointed, finely crenate ; downy on both 

 sides. Stipulas half-heartshaped, flat, toothed, nearly 

 smooth. 



S. hirta. Engl. Bat. v. 20. t. 1404. Cotnp. ed. 4. 164. Rees's Cycl. 

 n.l2l. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 696. 



In woods and hedges. 

 Found in Norfolk, by Mr. Crowe. 

 Tree. April, May. 



A small tree, remarkable for its thick, round, hoary branches, 

 clothed very densely with prominent, close, horizontal, soft. 



