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SPECIES XIV.-S ALIX FERRUGINEA. Anders. 

 Plate MCCCXXV. 

 S. cinerea-vimiiialis.' Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 181. 



Leaves oblong-elliptical or strapshaped-elliptical, often acuminate, 

 acute, distinctly undulated and repand and very finely serrate on the 

 margins, which are revolute when young, rugose and dull green above, 

 with the veins impressed, dull grey with cottony or woolly hairs 

 beneath. Stipules usually rather large (rarely large), subsessile, 

 shortly stalked, or subsessile, lanceolate or ovate-half-cordate, at length 

 crescentshaped. Catkins opening before the leaf-buds expand; the 

 male catkins Avith small nonfoliaceous bracts at the base, ovate-oblong, 

 subsessile; the female catkins rather long, cylindrical, rather thick, 

 dense, shortly stalked, with small foliaceous bracts at the base. 

 Catkin-scales strapshaped-oblanceolate, pilose, brown at the apex. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate-conical, grey, 

 silky-tomentose, on a stalk longer than the nectary ; stjde generally 

 short, about as long as the stigmas; stigmas rather short, oblong, 

 usually entire. Young branches downy; buds downy or subglabrous; 

 upper side of the leaves at first downy, and often remaining so per- 

 manently. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plate MCCCXXV. 



S. ferrnginea, Borrer in E.B.S. No. 2665, and Booh. Brit. PL ed. iv. p. 364, Boole. & 



Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 407. 

 S. Smithiana, var. y, Bal. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 311. 



Style as long as the stigmas ; stigmas narrowly oblong. 



Yar. 3, rugosa. ; 



S. rugosa, Leefe, Sal. Brit. 

 S. holosericea, Borrer in Booh. Brit. PL ed. iv. p. 364. Booh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 



p. 407 (non Wllld. nee Koch.). 

 S. Smithiana, ft rugosa, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 311. 

 S. acuminata, var. rugosa, Sm. M.S. 



Style shorter than the stigmas ; stigmas broadly oblong. Leaves 

 more silky below than in var. a. Catkin-scales darker and more 

 hairy. 



By river sides and in wet places. Not unfrequent in England. 

 Fifeshire, Scotland. I have no record of its occurrence in Ireland. 

 Yar. 3,- Lewes, Sussex ; Richmond, Yorkshire ; Pinley, Warwickshire. 



