SALLOW AND EARED WILLOW 221 



Salix Gaprea. Sallow, Goat Willow (Fig. 64). Shrub 

 with grey rugose leaves. 



Catkins flowering early, sessile, dense-flowered; very 

 silky (especially the </) Avhen young, owing to the scales 

 being covered with long, silky hairs. Scales spathulate, black 

 in the distal half. Male catkins about 3 4*5 x 1'5 2"5cm. ; 

 female 1'5 4 x 1"2 2"o cm. Stamens 2, free, long and 

 radiating, filament glabrous, anthers yellow. Ovary long- 

 conoid, silvery tomentose, on a long pedicel over 3 times 

 as long as the angular gland ; style short, stigmas ap- 

 pressed bifid. Capsule narrow, elongated, grey- villous ; 

 valves revolute helicoid, pedicel as long as the scale. 



[This and S. aurita are the common hedge willows, 

 difficult to distinguish, especially as there are inter- 

 mediate hybrids and varieties. S. aurita has typically 

 larger stipules, smaller and more crenate leaves, and is 

 more bushy. S. cinerea is more tomentose and ashen grey 

 on its twigs, buds and leaves. The ^T catkin sessile and 

 with a few bracts; the $ sub-sessile and with a few leaves. 

 Monstrous flowers with both stamens and ovules on the 

 carpel occasionally occur.] 



-=- -^ Diffuse shrub, with angular shoots 

 and small obovate leaves. Stigma 

 sessile. 



Salix aurita, L. Eared Willow (Fig. 65). Shrub 

 with usually smaller leaves than the Sallow. 



Catkins about 0"6 2 cm. long, appearing early, sessile 

 or sub-sessile, with a few short basal leaves. Scales velvety 

 on both faces. The </ dense, oblong and extended, with 

 2 free stamens, very pubescent below : anthers yellow, 

 then brown. The % catkin with a very short villous 

 peduncle. Capsules oval to oblong, conic, tomentose or 

 pubescent, with the pedicel 3 5 times as long as the 



