AMENTIFERA. 217 
Section Il.—CAPRISALIX. Dumort. 
Catkins sessile, or shortly stalked in fruit, leafless, or with 2 or 3 
small leaves at the base, lateral, appearing before or with the leaves. 
Catkin-scales usually discoloured at the end. Nectary of one piece on 
the opposite side of the stamens or pistil from the catkin-scale, i.e. 
between the essential organs of the flower and the rachis of the 
catkin. 
Sus-Section I.—HELICE. Dumort. 
Nectary wedgeshaped. Stamen 1, with a 4-celled anther—or 2 and 
monadelphous, with 2-celled anthers; anthers dull red, ultimately 
black. 
Shrubs or small trees, with equitant vernation, and catkins bracteate 
at the base. Leaves glabrous, often opposite. 
SPECIES VUI—-SALIX PURPUREA. Lim. 
Pirates MCCCXVI. MCCCXVIL MCCCXVIHL. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1956. 
Wimmer, Sal. Europ. p. 29. 
Leaves alternate and opposite, oblanceolate-oblong or oblong, usually 
enlarged towards the apex, shortly acuminate or acute, very faintly 
but acutely serrate, opaque, green above, paler and often glaucous 
beneath, glabrous on both sides. Stipules half-ovate, often absent. 
Catkins opening before the leaf-buds, subsessile, with small foliaceous 
bracts at the base, cylindrical at first, erect, afterwards spreading or 
slightly recurved, rather slender, dense. Catkin-scales ovate-obovate, 
blunt, pilose or more or less woolly. Stamens 2; filaments combined 
to the apex, pilose at the base. Capsule broadly ovate-ovoid, obtuse, 
tomentose (rarely subglaucous), subsessile; style scarcely any, or at 
least much shorter than the stigmas; stigmas short, spreading, entire, 
notched, or, more rarely, at length 2-cleft. Young branches and very 
young leaves sometimes with a few hairs. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Pratt MCCCXVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXXIL. Fig. 1230. 
§. purpurea, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1388, Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 87. Hook. Brit. 
Fi. ed. iv. p. 355. 
Decumbent. Young branches purple. Leaves narrowly oblong- 
oblanceolate. Stigmas nearly sessile, very short, thick, ovate, obtuse. 
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