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their different forms bi'ing tke chief point of distinction indicated, 

 and finding no characteristic marks in my own authentic specimens, 

 I do not hesitate about uniting them. My plants of S. oleifolla 

 likewise, from the same source, offer no points of discrimination ; 

 though, like Sir James Smith, I have never seen the fertile catkins. 



32. S. aurifa (round-eared Sallow}, leaves obovate repando- 

 dentate rugose with veins more or less pubescent very downy 

 beneath their margins recurved tipped with a small recurved 

 point, stipules roundish semieordate, gerniens Janeeolato-su- 

 bulate pedicellate silky, style very short, stigmas generally 

 entire. Lig/ilf. p. 602. E. B. f. 1487. 



HAB. Woods and hedges, frequent. Fl. May. T? . 



A small bushy tree, with straggling branches. May it not be, that in 



in a moister soil this would become S. cinerea ? It is, however, 



decidedly more toothed, far more veiny, and shorter in the leaves. 



The germens of the two in my specimens are exactly similar, and 



longer than represented in E. B. 



33. S. rupeslris (silky Rock IVillou'} , leaves obovate approach- 

 ing to lanceolate subserrated pubescent and subsilky beneath 

 veined, stipules small semieordate, " germens pedicellate .lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, style short, stigmas mostly entire," Sm. 

 E.B.I. 2342. 



HAB. Rocks on the mountains of Craig- Chailloch and Mael-Ghyrdy, 

 as well as near Aberfoyle, Mr. Borrer. On the Clova mountains, 

 G. Dou. Fl. May. Jj . 



A trailing depressed shrub ; probably a dwarf of one of the two pre- 

 ceding species. 



34. S. Andersoniana (green Mountain Sallow}, leaves ellipti- 

 cal oblong acute faintly crenato-dentate the upper ones chiefly 

 subpubescent all glaucous beneath, stipules small subovate, 

 branches minutely downy, germens pedicellate linear-subulate 

 glabrous, style elongated, stigmas bind, scales fringed with a 

 few long silky hairs. E. B. t. 2343. 



HAB. Scotland, in various parts, Sm. in E. B. Clova mountains, 

 G. Don. Fl. May. fj . 



A small tree or bush, differing from all the preceding species of this 

 division in its glabrous germens. The leaves are all serrated, and 

 so glabrous that the plant might be looked for in the first division. 



35. S. Forsteri (glaucous Mountain Sallow), " leaves ellip- 

 tical-obovate acute notched slightly downy glaucous beneath, 

 stipules vaulted, branches minutely downy, germen stalked 

 silky, stigmas undivided," Sm. E. B. t. 2344. 



HAB. Obtained by Mr. T. F. Forster from Scotland. Fl. May. J? . 



I presume the silky germens will distinguish this plant (of which I 

 have no specimens) from S. Andersoniana, with which it is com- 

 pared by its author, on the one hand j and with S. hirta on the 

 other : like that turning black in drying, " but the hirta is a tree 

 vastly more hairy, with larger, flat, quite smooth stipules, its leave 

 heart-shaped at the base," Sm. 



