246 AMENTACE.E. [Salix. 



leaves ovate, acuminate, crenate, glandular, glabrous ; foot- 

 stalks glandular at the summit; germens ovate, tapering, smooth, 

 nearly sessile; style scarcely any; stigmas bifid. Br. FL 1. p. 

 416. E. FL v. iv. p. 171. E. Bot. t. 1805. Salict. Wob. p. 

 67. t. 34. 



Banks of rivers and ditches. Natural woods near Blarney, County 

 of Cork ; Mr. J. Drummond. Common in the County of Derry ; 

 Mr. D. Moore. Ditch-banks at Florencecourt. FL May, June. 



J? . A tree eighteen or twenty feet high, with copious, large, shining 

 leaves, which give it the appearance of an evergreen. Sterile catkins 

 yellow, fragrant and handsome. The most ornamental of the larger 



Willows. 



sj sfc s|c 5| Fragiles. Borr. Stamens two, (as in the fol- 

 lowing groups). Trees of considerable size, with lanceolate, 

 glabrous, serrated, stipulated leaves, and very lax catkins, with 

 elongated, more or less stalked, glabrous germens. 



10. S. decipiens, Hoffm. White Welsh or varnished Willow. 

 Leaves lanceolate, pointed, serrated, very glabrous ; floral ones 

 partly obovate and recurved ; footstalks somewhat glandular; 

 germens tapering, stalked, glabrous ; style longer than the 

 cloven stigmas ; branches smooth, highly polished. Sm. Br. 

 FL 1. p. 417. E. FL v. iv. p. 183. E. Bot. t. 1937. Salict. 

 Wob. p. 57. t. 29. 



Hedges near Newtownlimavady, and parish of Tamlaght ; Mr. D. 

 Moore. FL May. T? . My specimens have more completely lanceo- 

 late and narrower leaves than those represented in the figures in E. 

 Bot. and Salict Wob., with shorter foot-stalks, and more rounded sti- 

 pules. I have not as yet seen the catkins, 



11. S.fragilis, Linn. Crack Willow. Leaves ovato-lanceo- 

 late, acute, serrated, glabrous ; germens ovate, glabrous ; style 

 short ; stigmas bifid ; scales pubescent and much ciliated. Br. 

 FL 1. p. 417. E. FL v. iv. p. 184. E. Bot. t. 1807. Salict. 

 Wob. p. 53. t. 27. 



Banks of rivers, and in marshy ground, frequent. FL April, May. 

 T? . " A tall bushy tree, whose branches are not set on obliquely, 

 somewhat crossing each other, not continued in a straight line, by which 

 it may be readily distinguished in winter." Sm. These branches are 

 fragile, especially in spring, and the wood is of little or no value. 

 Whatever good qualities have been attributed to the present species, 

 Sir J. E. Smith observes, belong to the following, which has often been 

 mistaken for it. 



12. S. Russelliana, Sm. Bedford Willow. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, tapering at each extremity, strongly serrated, glabrous, 

 very pale beneath; germens stalked, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous ; style as long as the bifid stigmas ; scales narrow, lan- 

 ceolate, slightly ciliated or pubescent. Br. FL 1. p. 418. E. 

 FL v. iv. p. 186. E. Bot. t. 1808. Salict. Wob. p. 55. t. 28, 



