TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, tapering both ends, acuminate, entire or 

 obscurely serrated, wavy, revolute, glabrous and grey-green above, silvery silky 

 or grey tomentose beneath, venation prominent above, midrid often orange ; 

 petiole very short, 4-10 ins. long, \-\^ in. broad ; stipules lanceolate, sometimes 

 glandular serrated, caducous. Autumn tint yellow. 



A deciduous shrub, or small tree, 30 ft. ; Braiu^hes long, straight, twiggy, 

 velvety when young, afterwards polished, greenish -yellow, olive, and brown ; 

 Buds small, thin, narrow. 



Native of Britain ; the most commonly cultivated Osier. Specific name = 

 twiggy (L. vimen, a twig, an osier, a pliant twig for plaiting or binding). 

 Attacked by Willow Leaf-spot {Septoria salicicola) and Crack Willow Rust 

 {Melampsora epitea). 



Margins of leaves rolled by larvte of a Gall-gnat {Cecidomyia marginem- 

 torquens). 



RETICULATE WILLOW, Salix reticulata. 



Scotch mountains. Jime — August. 



Floivers dioecious, appearing after leaves ; 31ale catkins cylindrical, lax- 

 flowered, on rather long, leafless peduncles at ends of short branches opposite to 

 last leaf, downy, |— J in. long, \ in. diam. ; Stamens 2, free, glabrous, anthers 

 red-violet or purplish ; glands disk-like and slit, or bifid ; scales small, 

 obovate, purple or brown, villous inside, ciliate ; Feinales ^--| in. long, | in. 

 diam. ; Ovary sessile, ovoid, obtuse, white tomentose, style very short, often split, 

 stigmas short, thick, purple-red, often bifid ; Fruit a capsule, sessile, obtuse, 

 purple, cottony, J in. long, stigma notched. 



Leaves alternate, exstipulate, |-1| in. long, ^-1 in. broad, very variable, 



obovate to orbicular, firm, entire or waved, obtuse or slightly retuse, glabrous, 



shining green, and rugose above, glaucous beneath, reticulation prominent both 



surfaces, young leaves silky ; petiole long and slender, channelled, pubescent at 



base, reddish. Autumn tint yellow. 



A deciduous shrub ; Stem woody, murli branched, prostrate, often spreading, 



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