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style scarcely any ; stigmas short, ovate, entire or notclied. Branches 

 of the year finely downy, and buds subglabrous or glabrous, 



Var. a, genuina. 

 Leaves obovate or oval-obovate. 



Var. 3, minor. 



Leaves subrotund-obovate. A smaller plant than var. a, rarely 

 more than 1 foot high. Leaves not exceeding ^ to 1 inch in length. 



In moist woods and in wet places, on heaths and commons. Plentiful, 

 and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Late Spring. 



A bushy shrub, rarely more than 3 or 4 feet high, with numerous 

 diffuse branches, the young ones soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 

 similar to those of S. cinerea, var. aquatica, but smaller (rarely above 

 2 inches long, and often less), and much more rugose above. The 

 stipules are usually larger, broader in proportion, and never absent on 

 the later shoots. Catkins similar to those of S. cinerea, but smaller, 

 rarely more than ^ or f inch long when in flower. Capsule consider- 

 ably narrower than in S. cinerea ; style shorter or altogether indis- 

 cernible ; stigmas shorter and thicker. 



Wrinkled-leaved Salloiv. 



Frencli, Saule ride. German, Geohrte Weide. 



SPECIES XVIIL— SALIX C A PRE A. Lmn. 



Plates MCCCXXXI. MCCCXXXII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXVII. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 462. 



Wimmer, Sal. Europ. p. 55. Aiiders. Men. Sal. p. 75. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 

 p. 408. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 311. 



Leaves oval or roundish-oval or elliptical, broadest near the middle, 

 or a little beyond it, rounded or subcordate rarely wedgeshaped 

 towards the base, shortly acuminate or cuspidate, undulated and 

 usually crenate-serrate at the margins, which are _ very narrowly re- 

 flexed, but never revolute, even and at length glabrous and dull green 

 above, grey and tomentose beneath, where they are pubescent with 

 white hairs on the veins. Stipules subsessile, semicircular, half-reniform. 

 Catkins opening before the leaf-buds, subsessile, ^vith a few non- 

 foliaceous bracts at the base; the male catkins ovate-oblong, the female 

 at first oblong, afterwards cylindrical. Catkin-scales oblanceolate 



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