SALIX CAPREA. ORD. II. Amentacezx. ee i 
SALIX CAPREA. ROUND LEAVED SALLOW., 
SYNONYMA, Salix latifolia inferne hirsuta. Bawh. Hist. p. 215. Raii 
Hist. 1422. n.1. Salix latifolio rotunda. Bauh. Pin. 474. Dill. App. 37. 
Rati Angl.3.p.449. Salix caprea latifolia. Fl. Lapp. Tab. viii. Fig. 8. 
Salix caprea. Lin. Sp. Pl. 1448. § Fl. Suec.n.900. Gmel. Sib. p. 137. 
Hoffm. Sal.i.3. With. Arrang. vol. ii. p.74. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 703. 
Huds. Fl. Angl. Ed. 2. p. 429. Smith, Fl. Brit. p. 1067. Engl. Bot. t. 1488. 
Hook, Fl. Scot. i. p. 286. Smith, Engl. Fl. v. 4. p. 225. Hook. Br. Fi. 
p. 425. Salict. Wob. p. 243. t. 122. 
Class Dioecia. Order Diandria.* 
Nat. Ord. Amentacez, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Male. Amentum cylindrical. Calyx a scale. Corolla none. 
Gland at the bottom of the lower nectariferous. 
Female. Amentum cylindrical. Calyx a scale. Style bifid. Capsule one- 
celled, two-valved. Seeds comose. 
Spec. Char. Leaves ovate-elliptical, acute, serrated, and waved at the mar- 
gin, downy beneath. Stipules semi-cordate. Germens pedicellate, lanceo- 
late-subulate, silky. Stigmas sessile, undivided. 
THE Salix caprea is indigenous to Britain, it sometimes becomes a mo- 
derately-sized tree, no other species of willow requiring so dry a soil; it 
blossoms in April, and enlivens the Spring with its numerous yellow flowers. 
The trunk rises to a considerable height, and sends off many spreading 
branches, which are covered with a smooth ash-coloured bark. The leaves 
are petiolate, four or five inches long, and about three broad, obtusely ser- 
rated, lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, of a dark green, and smooth or downy on 
the upper surface ; beneath, of a bluish grey colour, somewhat cottony, and 
_ marked with a network of veins. There are sometimes no stipules, but when 
" present, they usually accompany the uppermost leaves, are rounded and ob- 
* Class Diandria. Order Monogynia. Withering’s Arrangement of British Plants, 
7th Edition. 
