372 SALICINEJE. [Salix. 



L. ; twigs yellow or reddish, old leaves glabrous above, scales of catkins 

 longer. Golden Willow. 



Section 2. Catkins on leafy or bracteate peduncles"; scales persistent, 

 discoloured at the tip (except S. reticulata). Stamens 2, filaments free. 

 Disk 1 -glandular. Capsule tomentose or silky, rarely glabrous. 



* Cap>sule with a slender pedicel ; style very short or 0. 



5. S. Capre'a, L. ; leaves elliptic or oblong-ob ovate or -lanceolate acute 

 or acuminate crenate reticulate on both surfaces tomentose beneath, stipules 

 ^-reniform, catkins silky, male ovoid-oblong, female elongate at length 

 nodding, scales hairy, tip black. Common Sallow, Goat Willow. 



Copses, pastures, &c, by streams, from Argyll and Inverness southd. ; ascends 

 to 2,000 ft. in the Highlands ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. April-May. — 

 A grey tree or large shrub. Leaves 2-4 in., dark green above, cuspidate, 

 margins narrowly recurved. Catkins short, preceding the leaves, sessile, 

 bracteate ; male 1 in., very stout, female lengthening to 3 in. Capsule | in., 

 silky ; pedicel very slender. — Distrib. Europe, N. and W. Asia, Himalaya. 

 — The earliest-flowering British willow. The twigs with catkins gathered 

 at Easter, are called Palm-branches. Audersson points out the impossi- 

 bility of distinguishing this from S. cine'rea, L. 



S. Capre'a proper ; buds and twigs glabrous or puberulous, leaves usually 

 broad glabrous and dull green above undulate crenate-serrate or subentire, 

 stipules long or 0. — S. sphacela'ta, Sm., is a subalpine form, without stipules 

 and with subentire leaves. 



Sub-sp. S. cine'rea, L. ; buds and twigs tomentose, leaves smaller narrower 

 from elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate margins undulate pubescent above, 

 male catkins less stout opening later, anthers pale yellow, capsule smaller 

 (filaments hairy at the base, Syme). — S. aquat'ica, Sm., with leaves more 

 obovate glaucous, hairs beneath white, stipules large, and S. oleifo'lia, Sm., 

 with leaves narrow rigid glaucous, hairs beneath red-brown, stipules small, 

 are slight varieties.— Andersson correctly refers S. cine'rea, Sm., in Engl. 

 Bot., t. 1897, to this ; but also quotes that plate and name under daphnoi'd'es, 

 Vill., a very different plant. 



6. S. auri'ta, L. ; leaves obovate-oblong rarely oblanceolate crenate 

 much wrinkled pubescent and reticulate beneath, stipules reniform, cat- 

 kins short dense-fid., male ovoid, female cylindric. 



Moist copses, heaths, &c, N. to Shetland ; ascends to 2,000 ft. in the High- 

 lands ; Ireland; Channel Islands; fl. April-May. — A small bush, 2-4 ft., 

 with straggling branches ; probably a form of 8. Caprea, being so closely 

 allied to sub-sp. cine'rea that it is chiefly distinguishable by its smaller size, 

 reddish twigs, leaves rarely 2 in., very much wrinkled, young reddish and 

 crisped, often petioled, large stipules, shorter catkins, |-| in., and narrower 

 more tomentose capsule. — Distrib. Europe, 1ST. and W. Asia. 



7. S. re'pens, L. ; leaves small oblong- or linear- lanceolate obtuse or 

 acute, margins recurved entire or serrulate shining and reticulate above, 

 silky or glaucous beneath, stipules or lanceolate, catkins cylindric- 

 oblong, scales spathulate, anthers at length black. S. fos'tida, Sm. 



