OLASS XXII, ORDER I. ] SALIX. 1275 
235.—Salict. Wob. p. 69. t. 835.—S. malvifolia, Sm.—English Botany, 
t. 1617.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 180.—Salict. Wob. p. 71. t. 36. 
A spreading shrub, about five feet high, with crooked spreading 
branches, having almost black bark, downy when young. Leaves 
most crowded at the end of the branches, numerous, of a thin texture, 
erackling like an evergreen, of a broad elliptic oblong form, with an 
acuminated point, and contracted towards the base, a bright green 
above, glaucous beneath, with a prominent mid-rib and netted veins, 
the margin somewhat waved, and copiously toothed, the footstalks 
rather short, thick, spreading at the base, mostly smooth. Stipules 
large, half heart-shaped, waved, and serrated on the margin, smooth, 
glaucous at the back. Catkins erect, oblong, densely hoary, on 
lateral leafy branches. Scales obovate, fringed with copious long 
silky hairs. Capsule awl-shaped, with an ovate base, on a short 
stalk, smooth. Style rather long, cleft at the top. Stigmas spreading, 
bifid, or undivided. 
Habitat.—Scotland. Sands of Barrie, near Dundee. Norfolk ? 
Shrub; flowering in May. 
70. S. lana'ta, Linn. (Fig. 1539.) Woolly broad-leaved Willow. 
Catkins terminal, sessile, very yellow, and hairy; capsules ovate, 
conical, smooth, on short stalks; scale oblong, very silky ; style long ; 
stigmas undivided; leaves broadly ovate, somewhat cordate, entire, 
shaggy, glaucous beneath ; stipules ovate, toothed. 
English Botany Suppl. t. 2624—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 205.— 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. 1. p. 374. —Salict. Wob. p. 141. t. 
71. f. 2.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 236. 
A shrub, three to four feet high, with spreading tortuous branches, 
with a smooth brown shining bark. Leaves from two to three inches 
long, broadly ovate, obovate, and sometimes approaching lanceolate, 
the point mostly acute, and often cordate at the base, green, and more 
or Jess clothed with hairs above, glaucous, and often shaggy beneath, 
becoming more or less smooth, the margin entire, rarely waved, or 
crenated, footstalks short, thick, spreading at the base. Stipules 
rather large, ovate, entire, more or less acutely pointed, soon falling 
away. Catkins terminal and lateral, the barren ones numerous, 
‘about two inches long, with oblong purplish very silky scales. 
Stamens two, sometimes three, the filaments often more or less 
united, fertile catkins from two to four inches long, ereci, cylindrical, 
on a short leafy stalk. Scales very silky. Capsules ovate, conical, on 
ashort stalk, smooth. Style rather long, slender. Stigmas ovate, 
yellow, entire. 
Habitat.—Scottish Mountains; rare. Glen Callater.—I/r. G. Don. 
Head of the Glen of Dole, two miles west of Acharne, the uppermost 
farm-house of Clove, Angusshire. 
Shrub ; flowering in May. 
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