DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 215 



ovate, or obovate, blackish, bearded. Nect. ovate, black-edged. 

 Germ, ovate-lanceolate, tapering, densely silky, on a downy 

 stalk half as long as the scale. Style thick and short. Stigmas 

 broad, subsequently cloven to the base, dark browrn or purplish. 

 The barren catkins I have not met with ; but in a somewhat 

 allied American species they are, like the fertile ones, short, 

 ovate, and recurved. 

 The Rhamnus secundus of Clusius, to which this Willow is com- 

 pared by Dillenius, is Hippophiie rhamnoides. It hardly less 

 resembles that plant than it does S. repens, or any of the same 

 tribe. 



49. S. cinerea. Grey Sallow. 



Stem erect. Lower leaves entire ; upper serrated, obovate- 

 lanceolate ; glaucous, downy, and reticulated with veins, 

 beneath. Stipulas half-heartshaped, serrated. German 

 silky ; its stalk half as long as tlie lanceolate scales. 



S. cinerea. Linn. Sp. PL 1449. Fl. Suec. ed. 2. 353. Ft. Lapp. 

 ed. 2.296; omitting the reference to Villars. Willd.v.4.&90. 

 F/. Br. 1063. Engl.Bot.v.27.t.lS97. Rees's Cycl.n.d4. Forst. 

 Tonbr. 111. 



S. acuminata. Hofm. Sal. v. 1. 39. t. 6./. 1,2. I. 22. f. 2. Fhrh. 

 Arh. 89 ? 



S. daphnoides. Villars Dauph. v. 3. 765. t. 50./. 7; bad. From 

 the author. 



In moist marshy woods and hedges, in various parts of England. 



In Cumberland, and in Fream wood. Rev. Mr. Lightfoot. In the 

 grounds of Lord Viscount Anson, at Shugborough, Staffordshire ; 

 also in Gloucestershire, between Bristol and the Severn ; and 

 doubtless in many other places. 



Tree. April. 



Twenty or thirty feet high, if left to its natural growth ; in hedges 

 or thickets more dwarf and bushy. It is readily to be distinguished 

 from other common Willows by a rusty glittering hue, residing 

 more perhaps in the fine veins, than in the pubescence sprinkled 

 over them, which consists of minute, prominent, shining hairs, 

 totally unlike the depressed silkiness of the tribe we have just 

 been investigating. The rusty colour indeed increases after the 

 specimens have been long dried, but is visible, in some degree, 

 in the growing plant, especially towards autumn. The branches 

 are smooth, reddish-brown, crooked ; the young ones slender, 

 spreading, and, in an early state, downy. When the tree has 

 been much cut, it of course sends forth strong flowering, and 

 afterwards leafy, shoots, as represented in Engl. Bat. On 

 the leafy branches of the year the lower leaves are nearly or quite 

 entire, an inch, or inch and half, long, obovate, with a short 

 oblique point, on shortish, slender footstalks iwiihoai stipulas; 

 the upper ones twice as large, variously serrated, with half- 



