AMENTTFER.E. 241 



point, hairy or shaggy. Capsule generally olive or reddish-brown, 

 though this colour is sometimes obscured by the grey or whitish 

 pubescence. 



From S. laurina it differs in being a smaller plant, with the 

 branches making a greater angle with each, other, the leaves less 

 upright, smaller, more shinhig above, with the veins less elevated and 

 less hairy beneath, the capsules much less woolly on shorter stalks and 

 with longer styles. The young branches and leaves in the forms of 

 S. phylicifolia, which have these hairy, become glabrous much sooner 

 than in S. laurina. 



Some of the varieties, as tetrapla and propinqua, are very probably 

 hybrids between S. phylicifolia and S. nigricans; if not, these two 

 should perhaps be included under one superspecies, as has been done 

 by Mr. Bentham in his " Handbook of the British Flora." 



Tea-leaved Sallow. 



French, Saule philica. German, Zweifarbige Weide. 



Mr. Loudon says, " This Salix, when covered with male blossoms, is amongst the 

 most handsome, nor are the leaves destitute of beauty." 



SPECIES XXI.— S A L I X NIGRICANS. " Sm.," Fries. 



Plates MCCCXLVII.— MCCCLIV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXXIII. fig. 2117. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1960. 



Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 125. Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 70. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 



p. 312. BooTc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 408. 

 S. phylicifolia, var. /3, Linn. Spec. Plant, p. 1442. Benth. Handbk. Brit. Fl. ed. ii. 



p. 426. 



Leaves at length firm, but not rigid or coriaceous, oval or oblong- 

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

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

 rarely entire, green, slightly glossy, rugose and usually subglabrous 

 above, paler or slightly glaucous and subglabrous beneath, where the 

 primary veins are much elevated, and often silky-hairy. Stipules conspi- 

 cuous, ovate, half-heartshaped, generally present. Catkins opening at 

 the same time as the leaf-buds, subsessile, or the female ones rather 

 shortly stalked, and with a few foliaceous bracts or leaves at the base, 

 ovoid or cylindrical, dense, or rather lax in fruit. Catkin-scales strap- 

 shaped, subacute or obtuse, pilose. Stamens 2 ; filaments free, pilose 

 at the base. Capsule conical-subulate, glabrous or slightly tomentose, 

 on a stalk four to eight times as long as the nectary; style elongate, 

 usually equalling the stigmas; stigmas short, oblong, usually 2-cleft. 

 Branches of the year downy; leaves turning black in drying when 



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