1236 SALIX. [ CLASS XXII, ORDER I. 
Capsules ovate lanceolate, smooth, on a short stalk. Style short, 
thick. Stigmas deeply cloven, spreading. 
Habitat.—Banks of rivers and watery places; most frequent in 
the North of England and Scotland. 
Tree ; flowering in May and June. 
This is one of our more handsome Willows; its copious large 
shining leaves give it somewhat the appearance of an evergreen. 
The glands of the leaves and flowers exhale a resinous odour, some- 
thing resembling the sweet bay (Laurus nobilis), and its large showy 
catkins appearing later than many other species, renders it a desirable 
plant for pleasure gronnds, especially in wet places or near water. 
It is less esteemed for the uses of the basket-maker, &c., than many 
others of the genus. It was, perhaps, a garland made of the branches 
of this Willow, to which Herrick alludes in these desponding lines— 
“A Willow garland thou didst send, 
Perfum’d last day to me; 
Which did but only this portend, 
I was forsook by thee. 
Since so it is, I’ll tell thee what, 
To-morrow thou shalt see 
Me wear the Willow, after that 
To die upon the tree.” 
Group 4. Fragiles. Borr. Koch. Stamens two, catkins on lateral 
leafy stalks. Trees of considerable size, with lanceolate glabrous 
serrated stipulated leaves, and very laa catkins, with elongated 
more or less stalked glabrous germens. 
12. S. deci'piens, Hoffm. (Fig. 1486.) White Welsh or Varnished 
Willow. Stamens two; catkins on leafy stalks; capsules ovate 
lanceolate, smooth, stalked; style longer than the cloven stigmas ; 
leaves lanceolate, pointed, smooth, with large inflexed teeth; floral 
ones partly obovate, and recurved; footstalks somewhat glandular; 
stipules half heart-shaped. 
English Botany, t. 1937.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 183.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 57. t. 29.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 358.— 
S. fragilis.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 230. 
An erect but not lofty tree, with very smooth highly polished 
branches, of a clay colour, but those of the present year are of a 
crimson hue. eaves lanceolate, pointed, very smooth, except when 
first expanded, serrated, with obtuse somewhat incurved teeth, foot- 
stalks channeled, glandular above, or bearing two small leaflets. 
Stipules half heart-shaped, mostly serrated, acute, often wanting. 
Catkins long, cylindrical, on lateral short leafy branches, these leaves 
are mostly more ovate than the rest, recurved. Scales oblong, obtuse, 
downy. Capsules ovate lanceolate, smooth, on a short stalk, Style 
thick: Stigmas obtuse, cloven, shorter than the style. 
