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to .03 long; scales pale, deciduous, of one color, round-ovate to ob- 

 loKg, villous; stamens eight or less, filaments villous at base; capsules 

 nearly globular, crowded, glabrous, borne on pedicels at length four 

 times as long as the urn-shaped gland ; style and stigmas short. 

 Leaves at length coriaceous, oblong-elliptical to lanceolate, .01 to .1 

 long, .004 to .01 broad, serrulate to entire, glabrous on both sides, 

 paler at lower surface; stipules on young twigs half-heart-shaped — 

 Early spring — Banks of Jordan, and valleys east of Dead Sea, and 

 northward to Egypt. 



2. S, fragilis, L. 5 Bi'ittle Willow. Branches spreading, 

 h'ittle at insertion. Catkins on leaf}'' peduncles, spreading or recurved; 

 scales pallid, deciduous, clothed with long hairs, especially at base; 

 filaments diglitly hairy at hasc ; capsules glabrous, elongated-conical, 

 acuminate, with pedicel 2-3 times as long as nectarium; style medium; 

 stigmas 2-parted, divaricate. Leaves lanceolate, when young somewhat 

 hairy, lohen adult glahrom, serratulate; stipules semicordate — April to 

 June — Common. 



3. S. alba, L. g AVhite Willow. Saf.df. Branches stiff, not 

 brittle at insertion. Catkins on leafy-peduncles, flexuous, spreading; 

 scales yellow, glabrous at apex, deciduous ; filaments villous at base ; 

 capsules glabrous, ovate-conical, ohtuse, with pedicel as long as short 

 nectarium; style almost none ; stigmas tliicltened, retuse. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, glandular-serrulate, more or less appressed-silky on both sides; 

 stijDules lanceolate, deciduous — Ajoril to June — Common throughout. 



Var. latifolia, Post. Leaves elliptico-lanceolate to obovate- 

 elliptical, more strongly serrate than in type — Beirut; X.W. of 

 Dead Sea. 



Var. iiitegrifolia, Post. Leaves entire — Aintab. 



4. ^. Babyloiiica, L. 5 Weeping Willow. Es-SajWif-el-mustuhi. 

 Branches long, slender, recurced- droojnng. Catkins short-peduncled, 

 somewhat overtopped by the leaves of the peduncle, .02 to .03 long; 

 scales lanceolate, straw-colored, caducous; capsules sf.s6v7(', ovate-conical, 

 glabrous, pale green; style nearly 0; stigmas divaricating, thickened, 

 entire. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, long-acuminate, serratulate, glabrous 

 at both surfaces; stipules shorter than petiole, awl-shaped — April — 

 Cultivated and escaped from cultivation. 



5. S. triaiidra, L. 5 Branches slender, brown. Catkins elon- 

 gated, slender, spreading, on leafy peduncles; scales yellow, obovate to 

 oblong, somewhat persistent, hairy throughout or glabrescent at 

 tip; capsules ovate-conical, obtuse, glabrous; style very short; stigmas 

 short, recurved. Leaves glabrous, oblong to lanceolate, serrulate; 

 stipules semi-cordate — April — Achztb (Palestine). 



6. S. Capraea, L. 5 5 Branches spreading. Catkins sessile or 

 nearly so, with minute bracts at base; scales oblong, somewhat acute, 

 villous, black at apex; capsules ovate at base, elongateck-lanceolate, 

 woolly, borne on pedicels 4-0 times as long as nectarium ; style nearly 

 none ; stigmas bifid, connivent. Leaves ovate to elliptical, oblanceo- 

 late, or obovate, abruptly short-acuminate, obsoletely wavy-crcnate, 

 upper surface glabrous, lower woolly; stipules reniform; buds glabrous 

 — Spring — Lebanon. 



