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spreading. Young branches and buds more or less softly downy; 

 young leaves at first downy above, at leno;th glabrous. 



In osier holts, hedges, and woods. Rare. Near Bury St. Edmund's, 

 Suffolk. There is also a specimen in the British Herbarium of the 

 Linnaean Society, from " Lea Bridge Road, Essex." It is also re- 

 ported as found in Scotland by Mr. David Don, but this requires 

 confirmation. 



England, Scotland (?). Slirub. Early Spring. 



This plant I have never seen alive, and possess no specimens of it. 

 Smith describes it as hairy, the twigs upright, tall, soft, and downy, 

 of a pale reddish-brown, brittle, and of little use as an osier. The 

 leaves in the dried specimens I have seen vary from 5 to 7 inches in 

 length, but probably there is a greater range in their size ; they are 

 broader than those of S. viminalis. The most remarkable point of 

 difference, however, is the great size of the stipules upon the later 

 shoots. These are frequently about 1 inch long, longer than the 

 petioles, more or less distinctly stalked, acute, crenate at the base on 

 the outer side, which is much more developed than the other. Male 

 catkins about 1 inch long, somewhat like those of S. cinerea. Female 

 catkins very long, 2 to 3 inches, or even more when in fruit. Stigmas 

 extremely long. Stalk of the ovary shorter than the long cylindrical 

 incurved scale. 



Wimmer considers this certainly a hybrid between S. viminalis and 

 some other species, probably S. dasyclados (Host.), which is not 

 known with certainty to be a British species. 



Auricled Osier. 



French, Stmle a grandes stipules. German, Nehenhlatt Wtide. 



SPECIES (?) XIIL— S ALIX SMITHIANA. WiUd. 



Plate MCCCXXIV. 



Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 229. Hool-. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 364. Booh. & Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 406. 

 S. Smithiana, var. a. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 310. 

 S. Caprea-viminalis. Whnm. Sal. Europ. p. 178. 

 S. mollissiraa, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1509 (non Ehrh.). 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptical, acute, slightly 

 undulated and very faintly crenate or nearly entire on the margins, 

 which are revolute when young, smooth and bright green above, with 

 the veins but faintly impressed, greyish-Avhite, with somewhat satiny 

 hairs beneath. Stipules small (rarely rather large), sessile, lanceolate, 

 sometimes half-cordate, 'at length crescentshaped. Catldns opening 

 before 'the leaf-buds expand ; the male catkins subsessile, with small 



