246 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



pubescence, conspicuous stipules, shorter style and stigmas, and more 

 bushy growth. 



Ambiguous Sallow. 



French, Saule ambigtie. German, Zweifelhafte Weide. 



SrECIES XXIV.— SAL IX RE PENS. Linn. And. 



Plates MCCCLVI. to MCCCLXII. 



lleich. Ic. Fl. Genn. et Helv. Vol. XI. DLXXXIX! DXC. and DXCI. Figs. 1239 to 



1243. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 1959. 

 Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 114. Anders. Men. Sal. p. 113. Buh. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 



p. 313. 

 S. fusca, Hooh. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 361, Hoolc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 403. 



Leaves oblong-oval or oblong-elliptical or elliptical or oval, acute or 

 subacute, entire or very faintly serrate, with the margins narrowly 

 reflexed, even, reticulated, with the veins slightly prominent on both 

 surfaces, bright green, shining and glabrous or more or less grey and 

 silvery- silky above, glaucous and more or less thickly clothed with 

 adpressed silky hairs beneath, or rarely glabrous when full grown. 

 Stipules usually absent, but on vigorous barren shoots lanceolate. 

 Catkins opening at the same time as the leaf-buds, or before them, 

 subsessile or shortly stalked, with a few leaves at the base, oval-oblong, 

 dense. Catkin-scales strapshaped or oblanceolate. Stamens 2; fila- 

 ments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate-conical, grey with silky 

 pubescence or glabrous, on a stalk 2 or 3 times as long as the nectary ; 

 style short; stigmas ovate, short, thick, entire or cleft. Young 

 branches and buds more or less silky, young leaves silky-white. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plate MCCCLVI. 



S. repens, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 183, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 209. 



Stem much branched, decumbent below ; flowering branches ascend- 

 ino-. Leaves elliptical, with a straight point, entire, nearly glabrous 

 above, glaucous and silky beneath. Stipules none. Capsule glabrous. 

 Flowers with the young leaves. 



Var. |3, fusca. 

 Plate MCCCLVII. 

 S. fusca, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1960, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 210. 



Stem suberect, much branched ; branches short, spreading. Leaves 



