AMENTIFERZ. 205 
The branches are not brittle, though they separate readily at their 
origin. 
Pointed-leaved Willow. 
French, Saule & cing étamines. German, Zugespitzte Weide. 
Sus-Section I]L.—AMERINA. Drem. 
Nectary generally of 2 pieces (at least in the male flowers), 1 be- 
tween the catkin-scale and the germen or stamens, the other opposite 
to the first (in the female flowers often of 1 piece only, between the 
germen and the rachis). Stamens 2, rarely 3 to 6. 
Trees or large shrubs with the leaves at length usually glabrous and 
subcoriaceous. 
Group I.—DIANDRZ. 
Catkin-scales soon falling. Stamens 2. 
SPECIES II—-SALIX FRAGILIS. Lin. 
Pirates MCCCVI. MCCCVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. XI. Tab. DCIX. Fig. 1264. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1955. 
Wimm. Sal. Europ. p.19. Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 41. 
Twigs ascending, readily breaking off at their origin. Leaves 
narrowly lanceolate-elliptical or elliptical (or, when young, oblanceolate- 
elliptical), attenuated at the base, longly acuminate, glandular-serrate, 
shining above, glabrous on both sides when mature. Stipules half- 
cordate, deciduous, often absent. Catkins opening at the same time 
as the leaf-buds expand, on short leafy lateral branches, spreading or 
recurved, cylindrical, thick, rather dense in flower, but lax in fruit. 
Catkin-scales strapshaped-lanceolate, subobtuse, pilose, especially to- 
wards the base. Stamens 2, rarely 3 to 5; filaments hairy at the base. 
Capsule conical-subulate, glabrous, on a stalk twice or thrice as long 
as the nectary; style short; stigmas short, divaricate, deeply notched. 
Young branches and young leaves sometimes silky. 
