SALICINE/E 



.small, sessile, glabrous, oblong, pale green, style short, stigmas emarginate, 

 seldom, if ever, produced in this country. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolate, finely and sharply serrated, rather obliquely 

 acuminate, glabrous and dark green above, glaucous beneath, 3-0 ins. long, 

 |-1 in. broad; petiole short, \ in., hairy above; stipules minute, semi-lunar, 

 serratulate, caducous. 



A deciduous tree, 40-70 ft. ; Branches long and slender, hanging down 

 almost perpendicularly, slightly twisted at nodes, pale green ; Ticigs brittle ; 

 Buds very acute. 



Native of Japan and other parts of Asia ; introduced from Levant. 



COMMON SALLOW or GOAT WILLOW, Salix Caprea. 



Woods, thickets, hedges, dry pastures, banks of streams. April, May. 

 Grows well by the sea. 



Flozvers dioecious, appearing before leaves ; the earliest to flower ; Male 

 catkins sessile, oblong-cylindrical, very stout, 1-14 in. long, golden, very silky, 

 few spathulate scale-like bracts ; Stamens 2, free, glabrous ; Female catkins 

 nodding, lengthening to 3 ins., bracts more leaf-like, hairy, tips black, silvery ; 

 Ovary stalked, stigmas bifid, nearly sessile ; often fertilised by insects ; pedicel 

 3 times as long as gland ; Fruit a capsule, ^-}^ in. long, downy-white, tapering 

 to long beak ; pedicels slender, as long as scale. 



Leaves alternate, ovate-elliptical, very variable, entire or crenated, narrowly 

 recurved, acute or acuminate, wrinkled, rough, greyish-green above, cottony 

 beneath, 2-4 ins. long, stipules half-reniform or absent. 



A deciduous tree, 30 ft. ; or bushy shrub ; Stem erect ; Branches purplish- 

 brown ; Tivigs and Buds downy; Wood tough and elastic, taking fine 

 polish. 



Native of Britain. Commonly called Saugh. Name Sallow from M.E. sahve, 



— O. Mer. salh ( A.S. scat//), willow. IMoom called Palm — great favourite of bees 



and moths. 



Insects injurious tu IFil/ows: — The larvic of iimumerable Moths feed on 

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