250 AMENTACEtE. [SaKx. 



19. S. Smithiana, Willd. Silky-leaved Osier. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, obscurely crenate, white, and covered with 

 sattiny pubescence beneath ; stipules very small semicordate, 

 acute; germens lanceolato-subulate, very silky, shortly stalked; 

 style elongated ; stigmas long, linear, mostlv entire. Br. Fl. 1. 

 p. 423. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 299. Salict. Wob. p. :367. t. 234.— 

 8. mollissima, E. Bot. t. 1509. 



By the side of the Mill-stream in Dawson Park, near Ball's-bridge, 

 and various places in the county of Wicklow, particularly near Dun- 

 ganstown. Fl. April, May. I? .—A small tree, with lanceolate, acu- 

 minate leaves, green above, silky and very soft beneath. Stipules, mi- 

 nute, curved, toothed, hairy. Of little use for economical purposes. 



20. S. acuminata, Sm. Long-leaved Osier. Leaves lanceo- 

 lato-oblong, pointed, wavy, finely toothed, glaucous and downy 

 beneath ; stipules half ovate, then kidney-shaped ; catkins 

 cylindrical ; germen stalked, ovate, hairy ; style as long as the 

 undivided stigmas. Br. Fl. I. p. 424. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 227. E. 

 Bot. t. 1434. Salict. Wob. p. 261. t. 131. 



Woods and bushy places near Cork ; Mr. Drummond. Banks of 

 the Laggan, near Belfast ; Mr. Templeton. Hedges iu the County of 

 Wicklow, frequent. Fl. April. I? . In its upright mode of growth, 

 shape of its leaves, and general habit, it agrees much better with the 

 three preceding than with any of the Sallow tribe in the next division, 

 in which it has been placed by some authors. At Florencecourt, 

 where I collected specimens in the autumn of 1833, it has become 

 a tree of about twenty feet high, although growing in an elevated 

 situation, 



>K 9. Cinerea?. Borr. Trees or low shrubs, with downy 

 branches and mostly obovate, grey, hoary, toothed, more or less 

 wrinkled and stipuled leaves, very veiny beneath. Germens 

 serieeo-tomentose. — This group is usually denominated the Sal- 

 lows. 



21. S. cinerea, Linn. Grey Sallow. Leaves obovato-ellip- 

 tical, sometimes approaching to lanceolate, more or less glau- 

 cous above, beneath pubescent and reticulated with veins, the 

 margins slightly recurved ; stipules semicordate ; germens 

 stalked, lanceolato-subulate, silky ; style short ; stigmas mostly 

 entire, Br. Fl. 1. p. 424. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 215. E.Bot. t. J 897. 

 Salict. Wob. p. 249. t. 125. 



Banks of rivers and moist woods, abundant. Fl. April.!?. — A tree 

 of twenty or thirty feet high, of little use. 



22. S. aquatica, Sm. Water Sallow. Stem and branches 

 erect ; leaves slightly serrated, obovato-elliptical, minutely 

 downy, flat, rather glaucous beneath ; stipules rounded, toothed; 

 germens silky, stalked ; stigmas nearly sessile. Br. Fl. 1. p. 425. 

 E. Fl. v. iv. p. 218. E. Bot. t. 1437. Salict. Wob. p. 253. 

 t. 157. 



