CLASS XXII. ORDER I. ] SALIX. 1247 
elevated on a short leafy stalk when in fruit. Scales oblong, obtuse, 
thin, pale, with a pink point, more or less clothed with silky hairs, 
mostly very long. Capsules lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, white, with 
close pressed silky hairs, and elevated on a more or less elongated 
stalk, often as long or longer than the scales. Style mostly very 
short. Stigmas short, thick, entire, or cloven, pale, or of a reddish 
colour. 
Habitat.—%. on gravelly heaths, Epping Forest, Hopton, Suffolk, 
Isle of Staffa; &. Bogs near Forfar; y. Epping Forest, Hopton, 
Suffolk, and between Balnagard and Aberfeldie, Scotland. 
Shrub ; flowering in May. 
This, as will be seen, is a very variable plant, depending on the 
situation of its growth being dry or wet, and in a more or less 
elevated or exposed place it is procumbent or ascending, or erect, and 
varies in the colour of the bark being a paler or darker colour, and 
smooth or pubescent. 
It is remarked by Mr. Borrer in the English Botany Suppl. that S. 
ambigua approaches on the one side to S. aurita, with the smallest 
varieties of which it is most liable to be confounded, and on the 
other to S. fusca; differing from the former by its rugose, less 
vaulted, and less distinetly serrated leaves, their more delicate texture 
and less woolly pubescence, and the smaller, flatter, and less oblique 
stipules; from the latter by its less silvery pubescence, and the more 
uneven upper surface of its leaves, and their more prominent veins 
beneath, as well as by some minute characters in the flowers. Koch 
regards it as a hybrid between the two. 
Group 10. Retieulata. Borrer.’ 
The character of this group, according to Borrer’s arrangement, is 
that of the following species. 
23. S. reticula’'ta, Linn. (Fig. 1497) reticulated Willow. Catkins 
on a long terminal stalk; capsules oblong, ovate, downy, nearly 
sessile ; style short; stigmas bifid; leaves elliptical, orbicular, obtuse 
mostly smooth, entive, glaucous beneath, remarkably reticulated with 
veins. 
English Botany, t. 1908.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 200.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p.3862.—Salict. Wob p. 133. t. 67.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 238, : 
A short procumbent shrub, with short spreading smooth dark 
brown branches. Leaves on long slender footstalks, orbicular or 
elliptic, smooth, dark green above, glaucous beneath, of a firm leathery 
texture, remarkably netted with prominent veins beneath, and sunk 
ones above, the margin entire, but occasionally notched at the end, 
the footstalk is channeled, and sometimes downy near the leaf. 
Catkins solitary at the end of each branch, cylindrical, about an inch 
long, densely flowered, crowded, reddish, on a long footstalk, downy. 
