CLASS XX11. ORDER 1] SALIX. 1259 
densely downy, the mid-rib and lateral veins prominent and reticu- 
lated, footstalk stout, very downy. Catkins appearing before the 
leaves, sessile, becoming elevated on short leafy stalks. Scales 
obovate, or lanceolate, very silky, almost black in the upper half. 
Stamens with large yellow anthers, or long filaments. Style shortly 
bifid. Stigmas notched, thick, capitate. 
Habitat.—W oods and hedges; Norfolk, Castle Eden, Yorkshire. 
Small tree; flowering in April and May. 
41. S. ni'gricans, Smith. (Fig. 1514.) Dark broad leaved Willow. 
Catkins sessile, becoming elevated on short leafy stalks; “ capsules 
ovate lanceolate, silky; style smooth, longer than the stigmas ;” 
leaves elliptic lanceolate, acute, smooth, with a downy rib above, 
glaucous, and nearly smooth beneath, unequally crenated ; stipules 
obliquely heart-shaped, crenated, smooth, veiny. 
English Botany, t. 1213—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 172.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 73. t 37.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 366.— 
S. phylicifolia—8.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 234. 
A large bushy shrub, with erect round shoots, somewhat brittle, 
downy when young. Leaves elliptic lanceolate, with an acute point, 
and often rounded or unequal at the base, a dark green, and smooth; 
except the midrib above, glaucous, and somewhat hairy beneath, 
with a prominent mid-rib and lateral veins, the margin more or less 
regularly crenated, from two to three inches long, and about one inch 
broad, the footstalk stout, downy, channeled, dilated at the base. 
Stipules obliquely heart-shaped, crenated, veiny, smooth, about half 
the length of the footstalk, often wanting. Cuatkins appearing before 
the leaves, sessile, becoming elevated on short leafy branches. Seales 
obovate, downy, the upper half dark brown. “ Fertile catkins on the 
(Lapland specimens) two inches long when fully grown. Germen 
awl-shaped, downy, on a short thick downy stalk. Style smooth, 
longer than the stigmas, permanent like them. Capsules ovate 
lanceolate, silky, of two recurved, light brown valves. Seed obovate, 
polished, with a copious woolly crown.” 
Habitat.—F¥ ens, at Wrongay, Norfolk ; near Shobden Court, Herc- 
fordshire. 
Shrub; flowering in April. 
The fertile plants of this species do not appear to have been found 
wild in Britain. The leaves turn black in drying, and, according to 
Smith, the plant is not applied to any useful purposes. 
42. S. Andersonia'na, Smith. (Fig. 1515.) Green Mountain Sallow. 
Catkins sessile, becoming elevated on short leafy stalks; capsules 
linear, awl shaped, smooth, on a slender stalk; style long, bifid at the 
extremity; stigmas bifid; scales obiong, fringed; leaves elliptic 
oblong, acute, slightly crenato-dentate, scarcely downy above, glaucous 
beneath; stipules small, sub-ovate. 
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