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6. S. triandra (L.) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate acute serrate gla- 

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

 stigma 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. triandra Curt.) lanceolate 

 wavy paler and glaucous beneath. ft. S. Hqffmanniana (Sm.) ; 

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

 shaggy towards their base. E. B. 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. T. IV. V. E. S. 



[S. petiolaris (Sm.) E. B. 1147. is stated by Lindley not to be 

 a European plant and is therefore omitted.] 



II. SESSILES LATERALES. 



Catkins lateral, sessile, without leaves or with two or three 

 small leaves or leaflike bracts at the base, stalk sometimes elon- 

 gated in fruit so as to resemble a leafy shoot but deciduous with 

 the catkin. Scales discoloured or purple at the end. 



v. Acutifolits (Borr.). Filaments 2. Anth. ultimately yellow. 

 Catkins persistently sessile. Scales discoloured at the end. 

 Style long. Bark of young shoots pruinose. 



t7- S. acutifolia (Willd.) ; 1. linear-lanceolate acuminate cre- 

 nate-serrate glabrous glaucous beneath, stip. lanceolate acute 

 sub-|-cordate below, "caps, ovate-conic glabrous sessile, stig. 

 linear-oblong." Shoots purple with a glaucous bloom. Male 

 catkins short, thick, very hairy. Fertile plant not yet found in 

 England. North Yorkshire. T. IV. E. 



vi. Purpureee (Koch, Borr.). Filament 1 with a 4-celled an- 

 ther, or forked with 2 anthers each of 2 cells. Anth. purple, 

 ultimately black. Catkins bracteated at the base. 



8. S. purpurea (L.) ; 1. lanceolate broader upwards acumi- 

 nate attenuate below finely serrate glabrous, caps, ovate very 

 downy sessile, style very short, stigm. ovate, anth. 1, stip. 0. 

 a. S. purpurea (Sm.); decumbent, twigs purple, fertile catkins 

 very compact. E. B. 1388. /3. S. Woolgariana (Borr.) ; erect, 

 twigs yellowish-gray, 1. cuneate-lanceolate glaucous beneath, 

 stigmas blunt. E. B. S. 2651. y. S. ramulosa (Borr.); erect, 

 twigs pale yellowish, 1. oblong-lanceolate paler beneath, stigmas 

 sessile bifid. 8. S. Lambertiana (Sm.) ; erect, twigs purplish- 

 glaucous, 1. oblong-linear-lanceolate slightly narrowed and some- 

 what rounded below, stigmas ovate emarginate. E. B. 1359. 

 e. S. Helix (L.) ; caps, oblong-ovate, stigmas almost linear 



