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length, f inch broad, blunt, on fruit-stalks about 2 lines long 

 which have 4 or 6 spear-shaped scales, Stam. 2. Nect. l, 

 bellying below, with a slender tapering neck, lopped at the end. 

 F. Catkins the size and shape of the other, on longer fruit- 

 stalks. Leaves inversely egg-oblong, or egg- spear-shaped, 

 either entire or a little serrated, 2 inches long and nearly 1 

 broad ; those on the lower branches a little scolloped at the 

 edge, dark green above, with little or no pubescence, cottony 

 on the back, pale or glaucous and reticulated. Stipula? kidney- 

 shaped, waved, and toothed at the edge, seldom found on the 

 upper leaves. This is an intermediate species between the 

 S. caprea and S. aurita, but different from both. Hoffman. 

 Leaves long and pointed. Ray. 



S. Caprea & Linn, and Huds. Thickets and wet places. 

 About Oxford frequent. Ray.— [Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire.] 



Var. 2. Leaves rounder and smaller. 



In hedges near Chisselhurst are some trees of a considerable 

 height. Ray. — On high and dryish heaths. Huds. 



S. Leaves oblong-egg-shaped, somewhat woolly under- cine / rea. 



neath : stipulae half-heart-shaped. 



In woods more than 6 feet high ; in exposed boggy ground it 

 spreads more, but does not rise so high. Stipule in shape of 

 half a heart, serrated; with 3 glands on each side. Catkins 

 brownish, placed lower than the leaves. Fruit-stalk with some 

 small spear-shaped ieafits. Leaves egg-oblong, rude, greenish; 

 veins on the back indistinct, rough with hairs ; the edge ser- 

 rated. Linn. — Branches tough, cylindrical, smooth, reddish. 

 Leaves oblong-egg-shaped, a little woolly underneath. Leaf- 

 stalks considerably shorter than half the breadth of the leaves, 

 nearly cylindrical, with a gland on each, just above the base. 

 Leaf scales minute, 1 on each, at the base of the leaf-stalk. Cat- 

 kins egg-shaped, 1 \ inch long, | inch wide. 



Sallow WilUvj. Salix caprea y Huds. Lichtf. &c. This 

 is perhaps the most common of all our willows, as well in hedge- 

 rows as in woods ; and I never had a doubt of it being the S. 

 caprea of Linnaeus, until Mr. Afzelius convinced me to the 



contrary. 

 Woods 



S. April.* 



S. Leaves spear-shaped^ tapering to a point, serrated, W ba. 



downv on both sides : the lowermost scrratures • 





glandular. 



been 



„. made into coarse paper and pasteboard. The 



wood is excellent for fuel, and also for stakes and hurdles in iwiees. 



