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on the leaves of those species. The wood is so brittle that it is not 
applicable to any economical purposes. 
85. S .oleifo'lia, Smith. (Fig. 1508.) Olive leaved Sallow. Catkins 
sessile, with scaly bractea at the base, appearing before the leaves; 
capsules ovate lanceolate, silky, stalked ; leaves obovate, lanceolate, 
flat, rather rigid, minutely toothed, acute, glaucous, reticulated, and 
finely hairy beneath ; stipules very small, rounded, deeply notched. 
English Botany, t. 1402.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 219.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 251. t. 126.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 365.— 
S. cinerea, y—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 233. 
A tree, with rounded branches and brown bark, angular and hoary 
when young, the buds are very large before expanding. Leaves two 
to three inches long, and about one in breadth, of an elliptic lanceo- 
late form, tapering at each end, the margin nearly entire, or serrated, 
with minute glandular teeth, green, flat, and even above, and slightly 
hoary, paler, and somewhat glaucous beneath, minutely hairy, and 
reticulated with prominent veins, and becoming by age of a somewhat 
rusty hue, of a firm substance rather than coriaceous, and when young 
densely downy, footstalks rather short, downy. Stipules very small, 
rounded, recurved, deeply notched, often wanting. Catkins large, thick, 
sessile, with several small bracteated hairy scales at the base. Seales 
obovate, oblong, the upper half dark, purplish, black, hairy, the 
stamens with long slender filaments, and ovate golden yellow anthers. 
Habitat.—Abundant in Norfolk, about Tunbridge, and not unfre- 
quent in other parts of England and Scotland. 
Tree; flowering in March. 
This is a very doubtful species, as well as the two preceding, so 
much so that Mr. Borrer, as stated in British Flora, says, “I do not 
venture to unite the three, although I could never satisfy myself as 
to their characters. They all vary much in foliage and in fructifi- 
cation.” 
36. S. anri'ta, Linn. (Fig. 1509.) Round eared Sallow. Catkins 
sessile when in fruit, stalked, with a few leaves at the base; capsules 
lanceolate, with an ovate base, downy, stalked; style very short; 
stigmas ovate, emarginate; leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, rugose 
and downy above, glaucous and hairy beneath, tipped with a small 
recurved point, the margins with wavy serratures; stipules kidney- 
shaped, toothed. 
English Botany, t. 1487.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 216.—Salict, 
Wob. p 247. t. 124—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 365.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 234. 
A bushy shrub, three or four feet high, with long spreading or 
trailing branches, roundish, dark brown or purplish, downy when 
young. Leaves of various sizes, eachon a short downy footstalk, obo- 
vate, and contracted at the base, or oblong, and rounded at the base, 
