

54 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix; 



Osier. Willow-beds, woods and hedges, especially in moift 



boggy land 



S. April, May.* 



(4) heaves somewhat serrated, woolly. 

 capre'a, g. Leaves egg-shaped, wrinkled, cottony underneath, 



waved, toothed towards the end 





Hoffman, sal. i. 3. 5. 4* Foliage of the different varieties i. 

 21. 1-27. Jan. U5-Ger. 1203. 3~Ger. em. 1390. 3-Pari. 



1432. l~/z leaf Fl. lapp. 8. s. 





No species of Salix requires such a dry soil as this does. It 

 sometimes becomes a tolerable sized tree. Branches when young, 

 palish, downy. Buds, the lower producing leaves, the upper 

 catkins. Leaves slightly tapering to a point at each end, above 

 green and scarce sensibly downy, underneath pale green with a 

 very thin woolliness ; edge marked with some notches, but not 

 obvious unless carefully examined, but from the middle down- 

 wards evidently waved. Linn. — Bark ash-coloured, cracks very 

 fine. M. Catkins egg-oblong, 1 to 2 inches long, often 1 inch 

 broad, on short fruit-stalks, which are woolly, furnished with 8 

 to 12 leafits, in a double or triple series ; the upper catkins 

 flowering first. St am. 2. Nect. 1. F. Catkins oblong or cy- 

 lindrical 1 to 2 inches or more in length, \ inch broad, on fruit* 

 stalks which have 6 or 7 leafits. Leaves roundish, egg-shaped, 

 inversely egg-shaped or egg-oblong ; 4 or 5 inches long, about 

 3 broad, either smooth or downy above, dark green ; bluish grey 

 and cottony on the back, and marked with a network of veins. 

 Stipule only to the uppermost leaves, roundish, finely scolloped. 

 Gleditsch found on this species both male and female flowers, and 

 others that were hermaphrodite. Hoffman. — S. latifolia rotunda. 

 R. Syn. 449. This is introduced in order to enable the English 

 botanist to determine whether it really exists with us or not, or 

 whether the S. cinerea has not always been mistaken for it. 



actamina'ta. S. Leaves egg-oblong, cottony underneath ; upper ones 



entire, lower ones scolloped. (Hoffman. Miller.) 



Hoffm. saL i. 6-Lob. $c. ii. 137. 1-G*r. em. 1390. 4-lW. 

 1432. 2-Leafonlj, Fl. lapp. 8. u. 



A shrub about 6' feet high, often resembling a small tree. 

 Bark smooth, ash-coloured, branches numerous, upright but ex- 

 panding. M. Catkins egg or egg-oblong, 1 inch or more in 



* The branches are much used for making hoops and the larger sorts 

 of baskets. It is often planted to prevent the banks of rivers from being 

 washed away by the force of the current ; and it forms a hedge very 

 useful in keeping off winds.— Horses, cows, sheep, and goats eat it. Lik>- 



— Putcheons and wheel* for catching eels, and bird-cages are nude of the 

 twigs. St. 



