378 78. AMENTIFERJE. 



5. S.al'ba (L.) ; 1. elliptic lanceolate glandular-serrate acute 

 silky on both sides when young, stip. minute, caps, nearly sessile 

 ovate acuminate glabrous, st}de short, stigmas thick recurved 

 bifid. E. B. 2480. Height 5080 feet. Scales shorter than 

 stain., as long as caps, in a and /3, exceeding them both in y. 

 Branches silkj^. /3. S. c&rulea (8m.); 1. less silky -beneath. 

 E. B. 2431. y. S. viteUina (L.) ; branches bright yellow, 1. 

 shorter and broader. E. B. 1389. Wet places. T. V. White 

 Willow. E. S. I. 



ii. Triandra. Stam. 3. Catkin-scales persistent. L. lanceo- 

 late approaching to ovate, glabrous. Catkins lax. Osiers, 

 naturally trees. 



*6. S. unduldta (Ehrh.) l ; 1. lanceolate much acuminate serrate 

 glabrous except when young, stip. ^-cordate acute, caps, stalked 

 ovate acuminate, pedicel twice as long as the gland, style long, 

 stigma bitid, scales very shayyy. S. lanceolata Sm., E. B. 1436. 

 Height 12 15 feet. L. sometimes wavy, often quite silky 

 when young. Germ, glabrous in *S T . lanceolata (or downy in 

 the foreign S. undulata}. Lewes. Suss, fand elsewhere! Sh. or 

 T. IV. V. E. I. 



7. S. trian'dra (L.) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate acute serrate gla- 

 brous, stip. ^-cordate blunt, caps, stalked oblong-ovate glabrous, 

 stiyma nearly sessile, scales glabrous. E. B. 1435. Height 20 

 30 feet. Germen not furrowed. L. narrowing down to the 

 stalk, somewhat paler beneath, or (S. trtandraCvut.) lanceolate 

 wavy paler and glaucous beneath. /3. S. Hoffmanniana (Sm.) ; 

 1. somewhat rounded below ovate-lanceolate, stip. larger, scales 

 shaggy towards their base. E. J3. S. 2620. y. S. amygdalina 

 (L.) ; 1. oblong-ovate acute rounded below, caps, ovate tumid 

 furrowed, young shoots furrowed. E. B. 1936. Wet woods 

 and osier-grounds. Sh. or T. IV. V. E. S. I. 



Sec. 2. CAPBISALTX (Dumort.). Catkins lateral, sessile, 

 without leaves or with two or three small leaves or leanike 

 bracts at the base ; stalk sometimes elongated in fruit so as to 

 resemble a leafy shoot, but deciduous with the catkin. Catkin- 

 scales often discoloured at the end. Nectary simple (of one 

 piece), on the opposite side of the stain, or germen from the 

 catkin-scale. 



1 8. triandra X viminalis, Dr. White. S. triandra X alba, E. F. 

 Linton. H. & J. G. 



