6oj5 DIOECIA DIANDRIA* 



*** FoUis integerrimis villous, 



stirila 9v SALIX foliis integerrimis iitrinque villofis obova-« 

 tis appeiidiculatis. Sp. pi. 1446. (Flor. Lappon, 

 369. /. 8./.> Ger. em. 390./. 3 J 



Small round-eared Willow. Anglis. 



In woods, hedges, &c. frequent, 'h . V. VI. 



This grows up to a fmall tree, from a yard t<t 

 eight feet high, the twigs hard and divaricated. 

 The leaves are about the fize of a fixpence when 

 full grown, not quite round, but obtufely oval, 

 being wider at the end than at the bafe : they 

 are wrinkled with large fwelling veins, and, 

 when young, are woolly on both fides, but this 

 wears off in fome degree from the upper fide, as 

 the leaves grow older : at the bafe of their foot- 

 flalks are fmall roundilh Jiipul<e^ or auricles, 

 which are largeft tov/ards the fummits of the 

 branches. 7 he catkins are fmall, fhort, and 

 oval, about half an inch long, the males yellow, 

 the fcales minute, lanceolate, a.nd downy •, the 

 females white, the capfules woolly, almoft cy- 

 lindrical, but fwelling a little at the bafe, and 

 fupported on fhort footft^lks. 



lamua iq. SAlAX foliis utrinque lanatis, fubrotundis acutis ? 



Sp pi. 144.6. {Flor. Lappon. 368. /. 8. /. x. & 



/. 7./. 7. i>e/}e.) Salix foliis integerrimis, ovato- 



' lanceolatis, fubtus fericeis, julis ovatis. H/iller. 



hijt. n. i6t:^u 



Downy 



