Salix.] 



CXXVI. SALICINE^ (Skaii). 



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1. SALIX, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. (Jen. PI. iii. 111. 



Flowers dicecious. Disc of very small Hcshy <^dan<l-like scales. 

 iMale flowers : Stamens 2-8 or sometimes up to 12 ; filaments filifurm, 

 free or rarely more or less connate ; anthers ovate, usually small. 

 Female flowers : Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, 1-celled ; j)lacentaa 

 2; style often short or 0; stigmas 2, retuse or 2-fid. Ovules 

 usually 4-8 on each placenta, 2-seriate. Capsule 2-valved. Seeds 

 of the order. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, 

 pinnately veined, often narrow ; stipules free, small and deciduous 

 or larger leafy and persistent. Flower in catkins. Catkins usually 

 dense and erect, axillary and sessile or terminating short branches, 

 appearing before or with the leaves. Bracts small, entire or rarely 

 toothed. 



Species 180-190, with the distribution of the order. 



Leaves lanceolate to ovate- or oblong-lanceolatc, 

 acute or acuminate, usually much more than 

 1 in. long ; male catkins usually more than 

 1 in. long. 

 Branchlets and young leaves glabrous or only 

 slightly pubescent, soon glabrescent. 

 Capsule rather broad, abruptly terminating in 

 a very short stylo or with a sessile stigma ; 

 disc-glands usually much shorter than the 

 pedicel. 

 Leaves usually 2-3 in. long, J-1 in. broad ; 

 capsule 2A-3^ lin. long 



Leaves usually ^-1| in. long and li-3 lin. 

 broad; capsule l^-2i lin. long ..'. 



Capsule (immature) narrow, gradually att<'nu- 

 atod into a style about } lin. long ; disc- 

 glands about as long as the ])edicel 



Branchlets and young leaves and often the adult 

 leaves more or less conspicuously i)ubescent. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolat<', acute to 

 shortly acuminate, 2-3 in. (rarely up to 4 in. ) 

 long ; fruiting catkins less than 2 in. long ; 

 capsule scarcely beaked. 

 Capsule narrowly ovoid, nearly 4 lin. long ; 

 leaves prominently reticulated ... 



Capsule broadly ovoid, 2-3 lin. long ; leaves 



not or only faintly reticulated. 



Leaves lanceolak", 4-9 lin. broad, soon 



glabrescent or nearly so ; style nearly 



} lin. long 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate tt> broadly lanceo- 

 late, 7-12 lin. broad, more or less 

 densely grey- pubescent even when 

 mature; style 0... 



Ixjaves oblong-lanceolate, long -acuminate, up to 

 5 ill. long, I-I4 in. broad; fruiting catkins 



1. S. >)af6<if. 



2. iS'. capcfi6id\ 



3. S. llutchinsii. 



4. S. Chcvulkn. 



J. tS\ nyjcrica. 



t». 8. Muridii. 



