1246 SALIX. | CLASS XX11, ORDER I, 
divided branches, a smooth brownish or yellowish bark. Leaves 
more or less ovate, or elliptic lanceolate, green and smooth, or slightly 
silky above, glaucous, and mostly silky beneath, with a prominent 
mid-rib and lateral veins, footstalk short, with a pair of lanceolate 
stipules, often wanting. Catkins at first sessile, becoming elevated 
on leafy branchlets. Seales ovate, oblong, obtuse, mostly purplish, 
pubescent, and fringed. Capsules lanceolate, silky, on a long slender 
footstalk. Style short. Stigmas ovate, bifid. 
Habitat.—Moist and dry places on heaths and moors in sandy 
situations. 
Low shrub ; flowering in April and May. 
The appearance of this plant varies considerably, according to the 
more or less dry or sandy situation in which it has grown. It is not 
applied to any particular uses. 
Group 9. Ambigue. Borrer. Shrubs. 
22. S. ambig'ua, Ehrh. (Fig. 1496) Ambiguous Willow. Catkins 
sessile when in fruit, on a short leafy stalk; capsules lanceolate 
downy, on long hairy stalks; styles mostly short; stigmas ovate, 
entire, or notched ; scales oblong, with long marginal hairs, leaves ob- 
long, or obovate, entire, or serrated apwartle) with a recurved point, 
downy above, wrinkled with veins, and silky beneath ; stipules half 
ovate, acute. 
English Botany Suppl. t. 2733.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. 
vol. i p. 861.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 236.—“ S. protrifolia, Schleich. 
—Salict. Wob. p. 149. t. 75.” 
B. major. Stigmas sessile, or nearly so; leaves obovate, about an 
inch across, very silky on both sides. 
English Botany, Suppl. t. 2733 8—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4, 
vol. i. p. 362. 8 
y: spathulata. Style elongated ; leaves oblong, about half an inch 
across, moderately hairy or silky. 
English Botany Suppl. t. 2733. y.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. 
vol. j. p. 862. y.—S. spathulatata, Willd. 
d. undulata. Leaves lanceolate; stipules stalked; style long; 
stigma entire; capsule on an elongated stalk. 
English Botany Suppl. t. 9733. .—S. ambigua, var. *.—Lindley, 
Synopsis, p. 236. 
A low shrub, with straggling branches, often procumbent, or rising 
one or two feet, downy when young. Leaves on short footstalks, of a 
thin texture, more or less clothed with silky pubescence, rugose from 
the elevated veins beneath, the margin entire, waved, or more or less 
erenated towards the point, the upper surface dark green, often with 
a greyish or hoary shade, the under side even when the pubescence 
has fallen is glaucous. Stipules small, half ovate, acute, sessile, or on 
a short stalk, entire, or with small glandular serratures. Catkins 
cylindrical, about half an inch long, sessile when in flower, becoming 
