30 DIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA 



Red Willow. Willow beds, but not comn 

 twcen Maidenhead and Windsor, on the sid< 



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Salisbury* 



May- 



Mr. Hudson introduced this species, seemingly upon 

 thority in Ray's Syn. without having seen it himself; and as we 

 have no further account of it, it is probably only a variety of the 

 S. viminalis, though Hoffman conjectures it may belong to the 



S. monandra. 



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(3) Leaves very entire, woolly. 



auri'ta. S. Leaves woolly on both sides, inversely egg-shaped, 



furnished with appendages. 



Roffm. sal. i. 4 and i. 5. 3-foliage i. 22-27. lapp. 8* y; 

 a leaf only. 



A shrub, a few feet high; covered with a greyish smooth 

 bark, not cracked. Branches numerous, spreading, smooth, tough, 

 blackish brown* M. Catkins upright, egg-shaped, blunt, half an 

 inch long or more, 3 or 4 lines broad. Fruit-stalk short. Stam* 

 ■ 2. Nectary single. Fern. Catkins upright or expanding, egg- 

 oblong, or cylindrical, blunt, £ to 1 inch long, and half as broad, 

 on longer fruitstalks. Leaves roundish, or inversely egg-shaped, 

 very entire but sometimes waved at the edge ; blunt or with a 

 short taper point at the end; dark green above, somewhat 

 woolly ; paler, cottony and reticulated underneath. Leafstalk 

 short, cylindrical, cottony. Stipula? 2 at the base of each leafstalk, 

 kidney-shaped, scolloped and toothed. Leaves y when young, soft, 

 even, an inch long ; when old, rigid, wrinkled, and 2 inches or 

 more in length. Sometimes flowers in the autumn as well as in 

 the spring. Hoffman. 



Salix c a pre a $ Huds. — Round-eared Willow. Woods and 

 hedges. Dry mountainous heaths. Huds. — [Frequent about 

 Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. Woodw.] S.May, June# 



The shoots are slender, and tolerably flexible. 



Leav 



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Rofs 



tire, nearly sitting. Ray.— Shrub a span high, trunk hardly a fitt- 

 er's length, very much branched, branch ends covered with silk/ 



own. Leaves thick, egg-shaped, rather pointed, entire, sitting! 

 densely clothed on both sides with a silvery white silky down. 

 Stipul* on the extreme branches, egg-shaped, pointed, woolly* 



• The twigs are much sought after by basket makers, gardeners, '!& 



K. Syn. 





