DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 169 



serving for brown hampers, crates, &c., but not for the finer 

 sorts of baskets, as when peeled they are apt to split in work- 

 ing. An essential specific distinction exists in the leaves, which 

 are longer and narrower than those of triandra or any of its re- 

 puted varieties, more pointed and tapering ; not linear, but 

 truly lanceolate. Footstalks bearing at the summit a pair of 

 glands, or minute leaflets ; not abrupt at the base, but decur- 

 rent, each meeting with a projection of the branch, tapering 

 downward, and forming a kind of buttress, which character is 

 clear and invariable. The stipulas are considerably pointed. In 

 the catkins little difl^erence is observable. Their scales vary from 

 ovate to obovate, or almost linear, and are densely hairy or 

 shaggy. Germen ovate, rather more tumid than in triandra, 

 though occasionally a little constricted above the middle, al- 

 ways quite smooth, both in British specimens and the original 

 ones of Ehrhart's S. undulata, as well as those of two other 

 German botanists, though described in the Beitrage, and by 

 Willdenow from the living plant, as downy. Could the copious 

 hairs of the scales lead to this error ? The style is evidently 

 longer than that of triandra, and the stigmas also. There is 

 nothing about our lanceolata to authorize the name undulata, 

 nor indeed is any such character apparent in the German spe- 

 cimens. On the other hand, these have no glands upon the 

 footstalks, and their youngest leaves are slightly downy, whereas 

 our's are perfectly smooth in all states. Some uncertainty 

 therefore attends the synonym of Ehrhart, and in any case I 

 cannot but prefer an expressive to an unsuitable name. 

 I rely on the well-known accuracy of the late Mr. George Don for 

 the synonym of Dr. Hooker. S. lanceolata of M. Seringue, 

 Saules de la Suisse 37. i. 1, is very different from mine. 



4. S. a?nt/gdalina. Broad-leaved Triandrous Willow; 



or Almond-leaved Willow. 



Leaves ovate, serrated, smooth ; rounded and unequal at 

 the base. Stamens three. Germen ovate, compressed, 

 smooth ; its stalk almost as long as the scale. Stigmas 

 nearly sessile. Young branches furrowed. 



5. amygdalina. Linn. Sp.PlAUS. Willd.vA.656. Fl.Br.\04i>. 

 Tr.of L.Soc.v. 6. l]9. Engl. Bot. v. 27. t.\ 636. Light/. 596} 



S. n. 1636. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 305. 



S. folio auriculato splendente, flexilis. Raii Cant. 144. Syn. ed. 



2.291.e(/.3.448. 

 S. spontanea fragilis, amygdalino folio. Bauh. Hist. v. \.j).2.2\ 4. 



/. 215? 

 S. purpurea nigra viminalis. Dalech. Hist. 2/6. /. ? 



On the banks of rivers and ditches. 



