236 6. Salix. 4. SALICIN^E. Plex.mon, 



Branches spreading ; leaves flat, very rarely and slightly 

 crenate, tips brownish; capsules narrowed at the end, be- 

 coming rather naked. 



S3. Salix caprea. Sallow willow. 



Leaves ovate, pointed, serrate, waved ; above smooth, 

 bald; beneath tomentose; stipule rather kmate; capsulef 

 ventricose, villous. 



Salix latifoli-i rotuivia, Raii Syn. 449, 15. 



Salix fi'iio siibrotundo auricul.ita, liaii Cant, 145, 2. 



Salix caprpa a, Lin. S. P. 1448. 



Salix caprea y, Huds. Ft. ^ngl. 429. 



Woods and hedges ; tree; April. 



Branches shining; small branches pubescent; Zeaye^ va- 

 riously shaped, waved, veined beneath; stipules recurved; 

 ament early, ovate ; capsule ovate, villose. 



34-. Salix molUssima. Velvet ivillow. 



Leaves lanceolate, pointed, subcrenated; beneath silky, 

 woolly; stipules lunate, very small. 



Salix raollissima, Smicli Flor. Brit. 1070; Ehrh. Arb. 79 ? 



Holts; shrub; March. 



Branches erect, very tough, rather bald; leaves above 

 green, smooth, quite bald; petiole attenuated; ament s ovate, 

 small; ovary shortly pedicelled; syle short; stigmata linear, 

 very deeply divided. 



35. Salix acuminata. Pointed tvillow. 

 Leaves lanceolate, oblong, pointed, waved and slightly 



toothed ; above smooth, rather bald ; beneath tomentose ; 

 stipules kidneyshape ; capsule ovate, narrowed, pubescent. 



Salix caprea aciito longoqoe folio, Raii Sjjn. 450, 19. 

 Salix caprea latifoiia, Ger.em. 1390, 4, 

 Salix caprea, var. Lightf. Fl. Scot. 60S. 

 Salix acuminata, Mill. Diet. 8, 14. 



Woods and hedges ; tree ; April. 



Branches rather smooth ; leaves above light green ; main- 

 rib beneath reddish ; stipules toothed; omf?/z/A early, ovate, 

 cylindrical ; style rarely 2-cut. 



36. Salix stipularis. Large^-stipuled willow. 

 Leaves lanceolate, pointed, slightly crenate, above bald, 



beneath tomentose, stipules nearly heartshape, very large; 



perigonium cylindrical, long. 



Salix stipularis, Engl. Bot. 1214, 



Holts; shrub; March. 



Branches erect, woolly; leaves long, unequally and slightly 

 crenate J stipules with a short petiole. 



