878 THE POPLAE FAMILY. 



lightness and grace which wonderfully adds to the beauty of scenery, the con- 

 trast with trees of deeper tint producing an effect at once singular and agreeable. 

 This and the Salix fragilis are the two largest of the genus. 



4. Smooth Willow — [Salix triandra.) 



Male plants: — Wet woods, pondsides, and osier grounds, very rare. 

 Pondsides near Marple aqueduct. (Mr. Sidebotham.) Female plants : — 

 None ? Fl. May. 



Curtis, ii. 436 ; E. B. xx. 1435. 



5. Purple Willow — [Salix mondndra.) 



Male plants : — Banks of rivers and marshy places, rare. Right 

 bank of the Mersey, near Carrington Ferry. In several places near 

 Marple aqueduct. (Mr. Sidebotham.) Sparingly about Ashley. 

 Several places at Prestwich. (J. P.) Female plants : — None? Fl. 

 March, April. 



Curtis, ii. 435 ; E. B. xix. 1343 (as Salix Helix). 



6. Common Osiee — (Salix vimtndlis.) 



Male plants : — Wet places, by streams, and in osier grounds, or 

 twig beds, common. Female plants : — In similar situations. Fl. April, 



May. 



E. B. xx\-ii. 1898. 



A variety of this species, with rather broader and hairy leaves, and the capsules 

 more distinctly pedicellate, lias been distinguished as " Salix Srnithiana." It is 

 the same as the Salix molUssima, of E. B. xxi. 1509. The female is not 

 uncommon in the same habitats and locahdes. 



7. Common Sallow — [Salix Caprea.) 



Male plants : — Woods, pondsides, and in damp hedges, common 

 ■everywhere. Female plants .-—In similar situations, and equally 

 abundant. Fl. April, May. 



E. B. xxi. 1488. 



The first of our Avillows to come in bloom, and in every way a pretty and 

 interesting shrub. The largo golden -yullow male catlcius, and the silvery-gray 

 females, deck the bare branches in the most beautiful manner, and later iu the 

 season, when the leaves are out, the matured ovaries pour forth quantities of fine 

 white silky seeds, though a large propurliou of them seem imperfect, and which 

 hang about the plant like locks of wool. Along with the other eurly and lealiess 



