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end of the season, and whose catkin bracts are obtuse. In habit, too, it 

 differs from S. Bockii in being prostrate or decumbent, and in a wild state is 

 confined to the gorges of the Yangtse Kiang. 



S. C^ESIA, Villars. ALPINE GREY WlLLOW. 

 (S. myrtilloides, Willdenow (not of Linnceus).) 



A shrub of low straggling habit, 2 to 4 ft. high, very leafy, with smooth 

 dark brown young branches ; buds smooth, yellow. Leaves oval or obovate, 

 tapered at the base, pointed (often abruptly) at the apex, sometimes wavy but 

 not toothed at the margin ; | to i^ ins. long, ^ to f in. wide ; perfectly 

 smooth on both surfaces, bluish beneath ; stalks \ in. or less long. Catkins 

 produced in April and May at the end of short leafy shoots, each | to f in. 

 long. Stamens two, their stalks united by half or more than half their length. 

 Ovary stalkless, downy. 



Native of the Alps of Central Europe ; introduced in 1824. It is met 

 with in gardens usually as " S. Zabelii pendula," being grafted on standards, 

 and in that way transformed into a small weeping tree pretty, but, as 

 treated in this way, usually short-lived. It is allied to S. purpurea, especially 

 in the connected stamens. 



S. CANDIDA, Fluegge. SAGE WILLOW. 



A shrub up to 4 or 5 ft. high, the young shoots covered with a close white 

 wool. Leaves linear to narrow-oblong, tapered at both ends ; i^ to 4^ ins. 

 long, \ to J in. wide; upper surface wrinkled, at first white with down which 

 afterwards falls away, leaving it dull g-reen ; lower surface permanently 

 covered with a thick white wool ; margins decurved, obscurely toothed or 

 entire ; stalk \ to \ in. long ; stipules about as long. Catkins produced in 

 April, leafy or naked at the base ; males about I in. long ; stamens in pairs, 

 their stalks smooth, white, anthers red ; females longer ; seed-vessels densely 

 covered with white wool. 



Native of N. America, inhabiting cold damp regions from Newfoundland 

 and Athabasca south to the United States ; introduced in 1811. This distinct 

 and hardy species is worth growing for the vivid whiteness of its young leaves. 

 It is the American representative of our native S. viminalis, from which it is 

 easily distinguished by the leaves being dull, not glistening and satiny, 

 beneath. 



S. CAPREA, Linnceus. GOAT WILLOW, SALLOW. 



'A shrub or low tree of bushy habit ; young shoots at first grey with down, 

 becoming smoother. Leaves varying in shape from roundish oval or oval 

 lance-shaped to obovate ; tapered, rounded, or heart-shaped at the base ; 

 pointed, sometimes blunt at the apex, toothed or entire ; 2| to 4 ins. long, 

 I to 2^ ins. wide ; grey-green, wrinkled and slightly downy above ; covered 

 with a soft grey wool beneath ; stalk 3- to | in. long, woolly. Catkins 

 produced on the naked shoots in March and April, stalkless ; the males very 

 silky, a little over I in. long, half as thick ; stamens two, yellow. Female 

 catkins ultimately 2 ins. or more long ; the seed-vessels white with down, 

 and stalked. 



Native of Europe and N.W. Asia, and common in Britain. Flowering 

 branches of the male are often known in country places as " palm," and are 



