220 GREY AND TEA-LEAVED WILLOW 



Ovary hairy ; style and stigma short; 

 leaves more or less oblong, ovate, <&c., with 

 venation prominent beneath. 



Shoots and leaves tomentose. 



Salix Caprea, var. cinerea. Grey Willow. Bushy shrub, 

 with the branches more spreading than in S. Caprea, 

 and altogether more pubescent, the buds especially grey- 

 tomentose. 



Catkins often more lax, and the scales more velvety. 

 Peduncle of $ catkin densely velvety. Stamens much 

 more pubescent at the base. Pollen dark yellow, densely 

 papillate, elongated, 30 35 x 17 /*. In other respects very 

 similar to 8. Caprea (p. 221). 



Shoots and leaves above glabrescent or 

 glabrous. 



jf Leaves glabrous and bluish beneath. 



Salix phylicifolia, L. Tea-leaved Willow. Shrub, 

 with blackening leaves. 



Catkins with the foliage, sessile with a few basal scales, 

 ovoid to cylindroid, the </ 2 2*5 x T2 1'5 cm., the $ 

 about 1*5 3*5 x 0'8 1*2 cm. Scales long, lanceolate, 

 distal moiety black or nearly so, dorsal surface hairy. 

 Stamens 2, free, glabrous : anthers yellow, passing to rosy. 

 Ovary ovoid-conic, white-tomentose, with a long style and 

 thick half-bifid stigmas, and on a pedicel shorter than the 

 gland. Capsule hairy, with revolute valves. 



[This and S. nigricans, Sm., possibly a variety, form 

 two of the most variable and difficult of all our willows. 

 The leaves turn black on drying. They are close to 

 S. Caprea.] 



Jf Jf Leaves more or less tomentose beneath. 



-f- Shrub with ovate and often large 

 ovate leaves. Style very short. 



