CHAP. cm. MLICA^CE^. ^A^IX. 1561 



Synonyme. S. uligin&sa Wiltd. Enum., 1007. {Smith and Koch) ; the trailing Sallow, so called in 



Norfolk. (Smith E. F.) 

 The Sexes Both sexes are described in Eng. Ft., and figured in Eng. Bot., in Sal. IVob and in 



Hayne Abbilil. 

 Engravings. Hoffin. Sal., \. t. i. f. 1., 2. t. 22. f. 1. ; Smith Lin. Fl. Lapp., t. 8. f. « ; Havne Abbild 



1. 188. ; Eng. Bot., t. 1487. ; Sal. Wob., No. 124. ; and our^^. 124. in p. 1626. '^ ' ' ' 



Spec. Char., S(c. Branches trailing. Leaves somewhat serrated, convex, obo- 

 vate, obtuse, with a small hooked point; hairy, and reticulated with veins, on 

 both sides. Stipules roundish, convex, toothed. Ovary silky, stalked. 

 Stigmas nearly sessile. {Smith Eng. Fl.) A native of England, in moist 

 woods and thickets ; flowering in April and May. Stem bushy, usually 3 ft. 

 or 4 ft. high. " Branches spreading, or trailing, either amongst other bushes, 

 or on the ground, to a great extent. Leaves various in size, on short, stout, 

 downy footstalks, obovate, generally 1 in. or 2 in. long, more or less con- 

 tracted towards the base, though sometimes rounded, or nearly ovate in 

 that part : their termination is often remarkably obtuse or abrupt, with a 

 broad, short, recurved, hooked, or oblique point; both sides hairy, and very 

 rugged ; the upper side dark green, wrinkled like a cabbage leaf; under side 

 paler, rather glaucous." (Smith Eng. Fl.) " The leaves occasionally 

 form permanent rosaceous tufts like those of .S*. Helix." (Ibid.) There 

 are male and female plants both at Woburn Abbey and in Messrs. Loddiges's 

 arboretum ; and from the latter we have received a specimen oi' S. ambfgua, 

 whic,, seems to be .S*. aurita. 



Varieties. Koch and Smith have referred the .S". uliginosa JVi//d. and S. aurita 

 Wil/d. to the S. aurita L. ; and Koch has thus contradistinguished the two 

 former: — S. uliginosa JVi/td. Taller. Leaves obovate. .S". aurita JVi/td. 

 Dwarfer. Leaves roundish obovate, smaller by half Mr. Forbes has noticed 

 that a variety was growing in the Woburn plantations which was about 1 ft. 

 or 1 ft. 6 in. high, and had its leaves truly obovate. Koch has deemed the 

 S. cladostemma Hai/ne Dendr. FL, p. J 91. and fig. B, c, a singular variety of 

 S. aurita, and characterised it as ha\ing 2, 3, or 4 stamens to a flower, and 

 these with their filaments connate to beyond the middle. We have a spe- 

 cimen obtained of Messrs. Loddiges, under the name of S. aurita micro- 

 phylla, whose leaves are oblong, and do not look of the affinity of S. aurita. 

 Smith judged (F/or. Brit, and Eng. FL) the .S". caprea pumila, folio subro- 

 tundo, subtus incano, of Dillenius in Eaii Si/n., to be a dwarf variety of iS 

 aurita ; but Mr. Borrer has expressed, in Eng. Bot. Supp., t 2733., his 

 opinion that this " is probably a synonyme of S. ambigua." 



s 96. S. LATiFO^LiA Forbes. The broad-leaved Willow, or Salloiv. 



Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 118. 



The Sexes. The female is described and figured in .5a/. Wob. 



Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 118. ; and^^. 118. in p. 1625. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves broadly elliptic, distantly denticulated towards the 

 base, and finely serrated towards the point. Stigmas half-moon-shaped, ser- 

 rated, glabrous, and large. Capsules ovate, silky, and footstalked. Bractea 

 ovate, hairy. Style about the length of the stigmas. (SaL Wob., p. 235.) Na- 

 tive country not stated. Flowering in March. A straggling plant, with strong, 

 round, pubescent branches, which are of a brown fuscous colom-, and be- 

 come nearly glabrous towards the lower end in autumn. Leaves of a large 

 elliptical form, a little heart-shaped and unequal at the base ; above, wreen 

 and shining ; beneath, glaucous, downy, and reticulated ; the margins re- 

 motely denticulated, and nearly entire towards the base ; finely serrated at the 

 apex. Footstalks a in. long, and pubescent. Catkins nearly 1 in. long when at 

 maturity. A kind quite distinct from every other of this section, and re- 

 markable for the breadth of its leaves, which differ in texture from those of 

 S. grisophylla, that are also broad. There are plants at Woburn, Henfield, 

 and in the Goldworth Arboretum. 



1 97. S. ca'prea L. The Goat Willow, or the great round-leaved Sallow. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1448. a. [Smith) ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 703., exclusively of the synonyme 

 of Kl. Dan. {Smith) ; Hayne Abbild., p. 249. ; Smith Eng. Bot., t. 1488. ; Rees's Cyclo., No. 126. ; 



