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small. Scales obovate, dark brown in their upper half at least, 

 externally hairy. Nect. oblong. Stam. twice as long as their 

 scale. Germ. ovate-Ianoeolate, silky ; its stalk somewhat hairy, 

 shorter than the scale. Siyle\eTy short. Stigmas thick, ovate, 

 iindivicied. Caps, light brown, silky, with long tapering valves. 



A very common species, brittle, not of any particular use but as 

 fire-wood, most related to the last, but distinct in mode of growth 

 as well as foliage. The catkins too are twice as large, more like 

 those of cinerea ; but much smaller than oleifolia or caprea, both 

 totally different from this, and well distinguished from it by that 

 circumstance alone. 



Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. J. Woods found, near London, on a plant of 

 this species, some deformed catkins, analogous to those men- 

 tioned under the two foregoing. 



52. S. oleifolia. Olive-leaved Sallow. 



Stem erect. Branches straight, spreading. Leaves obovate- 

 lanceolate, flat, rather rigid, minutely toothed, acute ; 

 glaucous, reticulated, and finely hairy, beneath. Stipu- 

 las small, notched, rounded. Catkins oval, nearly half 

 as broad as long. 



S. oleifolia. Fl. Br. 1 065. Engl. Bot. v. 20. i. 1 402. Pees's Cycl. 

 w. 11 9. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.4. 702. Forst. Tonbr. 111. 



S. n. 1651. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 310 ? at least one of his supposed va- 

 rieties. 



In woods and hedges. 



Very abundant in the hedges and copses about Tittleshall and 

 Litcham, also in the parish of Framingham, Norfolk, as well as 

 in other parts of England. Mr. T. F. Forster found it in wet 

 hedges and fields about Tonbridge. 



Tree. March. 



Truly arboreous, and, if allowed to grow, as tall as a common 

 Crab-tree, though not of so stout a habit as the Salix caprea, 

 the catkins excepted. The branches are round, when young 

 somewhat angular, brown, more or less hoary with short down, 

 very soft to the touch. They are leafy in the upper part, and 

 in the lower beset with Jlower-bucls, at first small, for the follow- 

 ing spring. These buds increase to a very large size before they 

 open, so that this Willow, like S. caprea, may be known by its 

 great buds, while stripped of its foliage. The leaves spread but 

 moderately, and are from 2 to near 3 inches in length, 1 at most 

 in breadth, elliptic-lanceolate, tapering at each end, somewhat 

 obovate, acute, not pointed j at first sight seeming entire, or 

 minutely serrated ; but they are more generally bordered with 

 minute 'glandular teeth ; the upper side green, flat, even, ob- 

 scurely hoary rather than downy ; under paler, slightly glaucous, 

 with copious, prominent, reticulated, minutely hairy, veins. 



