PI. ex. mon. 3. TAXIDEiE. 5. Taxus. 227 



Mountainous woods and hedges. 



Stem erect ; branches horizontal, 2-rowed ; leaves very 

 dark green, smooth, narrow, unarmed ; receptacle light red. 



Fam. IV. 4. SALICINiE. Mirbell. 



Flowers unisexual, amentaceous ; scales imbricate, one- 

 fiowered; perigonium free, scalelike or tubular. — Male. 

 Stamens 1 to 30 ; anthers 2-celled. — Female. Ovary free ; 

 style 1, simple; stigmata 2 to 4; capsule 1 or 2-celled, 

 2-valved, many-seeded ; seeds comose ; spermodermis mem- 

 branaceous ; perisperm ; corculum straight. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, deciduous, when young having 2 

 stipules at their base. 



Stamens 2 to 5; capsule 1 -celled; 

 leaves ovate or lanceolate Salix. 6. 



Stamens 8 to 30 ; capsule 2-celled ; 

 leaves angular, peduncle compressed Populus. 7. 



I. 6. SALIX. Pliny. JVillow. 



Dioicous, rarely monoicous ; ame?it ovate or cylindrical ; 

 scales imbricate, lanceolate ; perigonium scalelike. — Male. 

 Stamens 2 or 3, rarely 1 or 5. — Female. Ovary round, 

 pointed, spiked; style 2-cut; stigmata 2; capsule (follicule?) 

 1 -celled ; seed upright, comose ; radicle below. 



The willows are here arranged first by their ovaries, 

 whether sessile or pedicelled; then by 'their styles, whether 

 short or long : to which succeed those whose female aments 

 have not yet been found. A mode of division proposed by 

 Dr. Hull. 



a. Ovary sessile; style short. 



1. Salix purpurea. Purple willow. 



Stamens monadelphous ; leaves obovate lanceolate, ser- 

 rated, smooth; stem decumbent; stigmata ovate, nearly 

 sessile. 



Salix purpurea, Lin. S. P. 1444. 

 Salix monandra, jird. Mem. 1, 67. 



Near rivers; shrubby; March. 



Branches very tough, purple ; leaves glaucous below, 

 very bitter ; petioles short ; ament very slender ; ovary silky, 



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