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From S. pliylicifolia it differs in its larger size, its larger darker 

 green and less shining subereet leaves, with the veins more elevated 

 and more hairy beneath, in the catkins being more nunuirous on each 

 branch, and in the capsule being densely silky-woolly with white 

 hairs, on a longer stalk, but with a shorter style. 



Intermediate Sallow. 



SPECIES XX.— SALIX PHYLICIPOLIA. "Lr/m." tSm. 



Plates MCCCXXXIV. MCCCXLVI. 



Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXIII. Fig. 2002. 



Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 131. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 312. TIuolc. & Am. Brit. 



Fl. ed. viii. p. 410. 

 S. Weigeliaua, Willcl., Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 76. 



Leaves at length somewhat rigid or subcoriaceous, oval or oblanceo- 

 late-oval, or elliptical, or oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate or acute, often undulated and crenate-serrate or faintly 

 callous-serrate, rarely entire, green, very glossy, even and glabrous 

 above, more or less glaucous and glabrous beneath, where the pri- 

 mary veins are slightly elevated, and sometimes silky hairy. Stipules 

 very small, ovate or lanceolate, half-heartshaped, often absent. Cat- 

 kins opening at the same time as the leaf-buds, subsessile, or the 

 female ones rather shortly stalked, and generally with a fcAv foliaceous 

 bracts at the base, ovoid or cylindrical, dense, or (in fruit) lax. 

 Catkin-scales strapshaped, subacute, thinly pilose, rarely densely 

 woolly. Stamens 2; filaments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate- 

 conical, often grey or white, silky-tomentose or subglabrous, on a stalk 

 2 or 3 times as long as the nectary ; style elongate, equalling or 

 exceeding the stigmas ; stigmas short, oblong 2 -cleft. Branches of 

 the year finely and sparingly downy, very soon becoming glabrous; 

 leaves sometimes turning black in drying, but only if gathered when 

 young, when they are thin, green, and sparingly hairy on both sides, or 

 glabrous above. 



Var. a, radicans, 



Plate MCCCXXXIV, 



S. radicans, Sm. Brit. Fl. Vol. III. p. 1053. Hool: Brit. Fl. cd. iv. p. -S^S. 

 ^. phylicifolia, Sm. Eugl. Bot. ed. i. No. 958. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 173. 



Lower branches decumbent and rooting. Leaves elHptical- oblance- 

 olate, acute. Capsule and stalk silky. Style long. 



