182 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



on tlie north side of ihe canal ; Mr. David Don. Marshes in 

 Angusshire ; Mr. George Don. Mooker. 



Shrub, or small tree. April. 



A bushy tree, with slender, spreading, flexible, smooth, purplish, 

 or dark brown, branches. Leaves about 4 inches long, and 

 nearly I broad, pointed, serrated, smooth on both sides ; bright 

 green above ; glaucous beneath ; soon turning black as they 

 dry ; their base unequal and obtuse. Footstalks long, linear, 

 and slender ; downy above, like the midrib. Stipulas lanceo- 

 late, serrated, smooth, somewhat curved, or lunate ; often 

 wanting. The young leaves are revolute, partly silky, very thin 

 and tender. Fertile catkins before the leaves, solitary, on short 

 lateral bracteated stalks, as usual ; an inch long, soon becoming- 

 longer, and rather lax. Scales rounded, notched ; the upper 

 ones most oblong ; all hairy, or almost bristly. Stalk of the 

 gerraen as long as the adjoining scale, or longer, hairy. Germen 

 ovate, obtuse, clothed with silky hairs. Stig7nas nearly or quite 

 sessile, thick, deeply cloven. 1 know nothing of the barren 

 plant. 



After gathering, the young leaves especially exhale a strong scent, 

 like the flavour of bitter almonds, but less agreeable. No use 

 has been made of this Willow, though it seems to abound in the 

 substance called Tannin. Mr. Pursh has suspected it not to be 

 truly Britisli ; but there seems no reason why, like several 

 other Willows, it may not grow wild in Europe as well as in 

 North America, and the authorities above mentioned are not 

 likely to be erroneous. Nobody, who has seen the living plant, 

 can confound it with any other, either British or exotic. 



17. S. vitellina. Yellow Willow, or Golden Osier. 



Leaves lanceolate, acute, with cartilaginous serratures; 

 smooth above ; glaucous and somewhat silky beneath. 

 Stipulas minute, lanceolate, deciduous, smooth. Germen 

 sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth. Scales linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, fringed at the base, longer than the pistil. 



S. vitellina. Linn. Sp. PL 1442. Hllld. v. 4. 668. Fl. Br. 1050. 

 Evgl. Bot. V. 20. t. 1389. Part. 470. Hook. Scot. 281 . fViyich 

 Guide, ti. 1 . 89. Hopkirk Glott. 1 1 8. Hoffm. Sal. v.].57.t.l],]2. 

 t.24.f.\. Ehrh.Arb.7S. 



S. n. 1 635 /3. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 304. 



S. sativa lutea, folio crenato. Bauh. Pin. 473. 



S. folio longo subluteo, non auriculata, viminibus luteis ; eadem- 



que viminibus rubris. Baii Syn. 450. 

 S. folio utrinque glauco, viminibus rubris. Baii Cant. 142, 

 S. lutpa tenuior sativa viminea. Bauh. Hist. v. I . p. 2. 214./; bad. 



