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

 long, 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 Brittle Willow. Branches spreading, 

 hrittle at insertion. Catkins on leafy peduncles, spreading or recurved ; 

 scales pallid, deciduous, clothed with long hairs, esi^ecially at base; 

 filaments slightly liairy at hase ; capsules glabrous, elongated-conical, 

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

 stigmas 2-parted, divaricate. Leaves lanceolate, when j^oung somewhat 

 hairjj when adult gladro7.cs, serratulate; stipules seraicordate — April to 

 June — Common. 



3. S. alba, L. J White Willow, Saf.,df. Branches stiff, 7wt 

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

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

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

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

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

 stipules lanceolate, deciduous — April to June — Common throughout. 



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

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

 Dead Sea. 



Var. iiitegrifolia, Post. Leaves entire — Aint^b. 



4. S. Babyloiiica, L. 5 Weeping Willow. Es-Sa/mf-el-musta/d. 

 Branches long, slender, recurved - drooj)ing. Catkins short-peduncled, 

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

 scales lanceolate, straw-colored, caducous; Q,?c\)^n\e% sessile, 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. iriaiidra, 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— Achzlb (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, elongated-lanceolate, 

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

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

 late, or obovate, abruptly short-acuminate, obsoletely loavy-crenaie, 

 upper surface glabrous, lower woolly; stipules r en if orm; buds glabrous 

 — Spring — Lebanon. 



