AMENTIFER.E. 205 



The branches are not brittle, though they separate readily at their 

 origin. 



Pointed-leaved Willow. 



French, Saule a cinq etamines. German, Ziigespitzte Weide. 



Sub-Section II.— AMERINA. Drem. 



Nectary generally of 2 pieces (at least in the male flowers), 1 be- 

 tween the catkin-scale and the germen or stamens, the other opposite 

 to the first (in the female flowers often of 1 piece only, between the 

 germen and the rachis). Stamens 2, rarely 3 to 6. 



Trees or large shrubs with the leaves at length usually glabrous and 

 subcoriaceous. 



Group L— DIANDRiE. 



Catkin-scales soon falling. Stamens 2. 



SPECIES III.— S ALIX FRAGILIS. Linn. 



Plates MCCCVI. MCCCVII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DCIX. Fig. 1264. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1955. 



Wimm. Sal. Enrop. p. 19. Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 41. 



Twigs ascending, readily breaking off at their origin. Leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate-elliptical or elliptical (or, when young, oblanceolate- 

 elliptical), attenuated at the base, longly acuminate, glandular-serrate, 

 shining above, glabrous on both sides when mature. Stipules half- 

 cordate, deciduous, often absent. Catkins opening at the same time 

 as the leaf-buds expand, on short leafy lateral branches, spreading or 

 recurved, cylindrical, thick, rather dense in flower, but lax in fruit. 

 Catkin-scales strapshaped-lanceolate, subobtuse, pilose, especially to- 

 wards the base. Stamens 2, rarely 3 to 5 ; filaments hairy at the base. 

 Caj)sule conical-subulate, glabrous, on a stalk twice or thrice as long 

 as the nectary; style short; stigmas short, divaricate, deeply notched. 

 Young branches and young leaves sometimes silky. 



