CHAP. CIII. SALICA‘CEA. SALIX. 155! 
Synonymes. 8S. mollissima Smith Fl. Brit., p. 1070.,exclusively of the synonymes, Eng. Bot., t. 1509., 
Rees’s Cyclo.; S. acuminata, with narrower leaves, Koch Comm., p. 31.; S. acuminata @ Lindl. 
_ Synop., p. 233. 
The Sexes. The female is described in Eng. Fi, and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob. 
“ngravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1509. ; Sal. Wob., No. 134., the female ; and our fig. 134. in p. 1629. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, pointed, slightly wavy, minutely toothed ; 
soft and downy above, but the down scarcely visible; whitish and silky 
beneath. Stipules long, narrow. Catkins ovate. Germen stalked. Style 
shorter than the linear deeply divided stigmas. (Smith Eng. Fl.) “ In my 
specimens the ovaries and bracteas are remarkably shaggy.” (Hook in Br. F1., 
ed. 2.) A native of England, in meadows and osier grounds; common 
in the woods in the neighbourhood of Woburn; and flowering in March 
and April. “ Branches erect, wand-like, round, long, slender, reddish, 
leafy, smooth, finely downy and soft when young; brittle, and unfit for 
basketwork. Leaves on shortish downy footstalks, lanceolate, 3 in. or 4 in. 
long, tapering to a point; the margin wavy, or slightly crenated, with 
minute teeth here and there, especially towards the point; the upper side 
green, delicately soft to the touch, with extremely minute, almost invisible, 
close, silky down; under side paler, whitish, densely silky, and likewise 
peculiarly soft; the midrib and slender veins reddish, rather less downy. 
Catkins appearing before the leaves, numerous, small.” (Smith.) S. Smith- 
idna is without merit in the economical application of its rods. (Jd.) 
There are plants at Woburn Abbey, at Henfield, and at the Goldworth 
Arboretum: also, under the name of S. mollissima, at Messrs. Loddiges’s. 
* 78. S. mowui’ssima Ehrh, The softest-surfaced Willow, or Osier. 
Identification. Ehrh. Beitr., 6. p.101.; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p.707.; Wahlenb. Fl. Carpat., p. 317. ; 
? Hayne Abbild., p. 252.; Koch Comm., p. 28. 
Syvonyme, S. pdbera Koch apud Bonninghausen Fl. Monaster. 
or each The female is described in the specific character. Koch has noted that he had not seen 
the male. 
Engraving. ? Hayne Abbild., t. 195., the female. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, repandly toothed with distant minute teeth ; when 
young, having the under surface finely tomentose. Stipules ovate, acute. Catkins sessile, or upon 
a short twiglet seeming a peduncle, and bearing small leaves at the base of the catkin. Capsule 
ovately conical, tomentose, sessile. Gland reaching higher than the base of the ovary. Style elon- 
gated. Stigmas linear, bifid, reaching as high as the hairs of the bracteas. (Koch.) It is easily 
distinguished from S. viminalis by the down of the leaves being finer, yellowish, and not shining ; 
the flowers more loosely disposed in the catkin; the bracteas of a yellowish rusty colour, and by 
their hairs being of a dull white, and of the length of the stigmas. In S. vimindlis the leaves are 
white, and silky beneath ; the bracteas of a very dark brown, and have silvery hairs; and the stig- 
mas are undivided, and extend beyond the hairs of the bracteas. S, mollissima grows wild upon 
banks of rivers, and contiguously to water, in the north of Germany, in Silesia, and in the north of 
Hungary. (Koch.) A native of Germany. 
&% ? ¥ 79. S.noLoseRI’cea Hook., ?Willd. The velvety, or “ soft-shaggy- 
flowered,’ Willow, or Osier. 
Identification. Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2., p. 421. ; Bluff. and Fing. Fl. Germ., 2. p. 565. (Hook.) ; ? Willd. 
Sp. Pl, 4. p. 708. (Hook.); ? Hayne Abbild., p. 253.; ? Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 137.; ? Koch 
Comm., p. 54. 
Synonymes. S. Smithzana rugdsa, quoted as a name extant by Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 134. ; ?S. 
acuminata, the var. mentioned by Smith in Eng. Fi., 4. p. 228.; S. acuminata var. rugdsa Smith 
MSS., and probably S. rdbra of Walker’s Essays, p. 443. (Borrer in a letter.) I believe that the 
velvet osier is S. holosericea Willd, y 
The Sexes. he male is figured in Sal. Wob.; the female is described in the Specific Character, &c. 
Engravings. Wayne Abbild., t. 196, (the sex isthe male); Sal. Wob., No. 134., in which the male 
catkin only is figured. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, serrated; glabrous above ; 
pale, downy, and strongly veined beneath. Catkins cylindrical. Ovaries 
stalked, densely clothed with silky wool. Stigmas ovate, sessile. Bracteas 
very shaggy, black. (Hook. Br. Fl.) Wild about Lewes, Sussex. Mr. 
Borrer thinks that this is probably allied to the S. holosericea Willd., and 
distinguishes it from S. acuminata Smith by its sessile pale-coloured stigmas, 
and leaves greener and more rugoseabove, and more strongly veined beneath. 
(Ibid.) S. holosericea Willd. is noticed by Smith (Eng. F/., iv. p. 230.), as 
a native of Germany, not so of Britain. It is recorded in the Hortus Bri- 
tannicus, as introduced into Britain in 1822. Smith has remarked, besides, 
that he believes a‘ kind of osier, ealled the velvet osier, to be identical 
with S. holosericea Wil/d., and that the velvet osier is much valued for 
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