1250 SALIX. "CLASS XXII. ORDER I. 
sessile; style long; stigmas long, linear, mostly entire ; scales ovate, 
bearded; leaves linear lanceolate, entire, or obscurely crenated, 
silky, with white shining hairs beneath ; stipules small, linear. 
English Botany, t. 1898.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 228.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 265. t. 133.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p, 363. — 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 232. 
A low tree, with straight erect branches, long, slender, round, 
smooth, clothed with fine silky hairs when young. Leaves linear 
lanceolate, acute, entire, or somewhat waved or crenated, four to six 
inches long, and about half an inch wide, green, smooth and even 
above, white, with close silky pubescence beneath, the lateral veins 
short, slender, the mid-rib prominent, reddish Stipules linear lanceo- 
late, entire, or toothed, often wanting. Catkins sessile, oblong, eylin- 
drical, dense, with a few bracteated scales at the base. Scales small, 
ovate, obtuse, or acute, brown, downy, and bearded with white silky 
hairs. Capsule lanceolate, or somewhat ovate, downy. Styles short, 
stigmas linear, acute, spreading, entire, or cleft. 
Habitat—Wet places and osier grounds ; frequent. 
Tree ; flowering in April and May. 
This is an extremely quick growing plant, putting out numerous 
wand-like branches, which are much valued for basket making, &c., 
for which purpose it is in many of the swampy districts extensively 
cultivated. Its cultivation and manner of growth and management 
does not differ from the plan already described. It is not unlikely to 
have been this plant which Ovid describes, when speaking of the 
situation in which Willows grow— 
“A hollow vale where watery torrents gush, 
Sinks in the plain; the osier and the rush, 
The marshy sedge and bending willow, nod 
Their trailing foliage o’er the oozy sod.” 
28. S. stipula'ris, Smith. (Fig. 1502.) Auricled Osier. Catkins 
sessile, with bracteas at the base; capsules ovate lanceolate, downy, 
stalked ; style long; stigmas long, linear, undivided; scales oblong, 
acute, downy, fringed; leaves linear lanceolate, entire, or waved, 
white and downy beneath ; stipules large, half heart-shaped, tapering, 
often with a lobe at the base. 
English Botany, t. 1214.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 230.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 363. t. 132.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. 1. p. 363.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 233. 
A shrub, with tall erect branches, of a pale reddish brown, very 
brittle. Zeaves numerous, erect, from four to six inches long, linear 
lanceolate, acutely pointed, entire, or somewhat waved or crenated on 
the margin, the upper surface green, soft, scarcely downy, beneath 
white and downy, with a prominent pale mid-rib and slender lateral 
veins, footstalk about half an inch long, stout, channeled, with a pair 
