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towards the base than in the other forms, and it has also the young 
branches more glaucous. The young branches and leaves, as observed 
by Smith, bear some resemblance to those of a honeysuckle, and are 
at first more or less downy. Stipules are very rarely found in any of 
the forms, except on strong shoots springing up when the plant has 
been cut down. 
Vars. « and 6, Purple Willow. Var. y, Boyton Willow. 
French, Saule & une étamine. German, Purpur Weide. 
The common name of osier is frequently given to this willow, and the young annual 
shoots are in great request for the finer descriptions of basket-work, being very 
slender, tough, and flexible, and becoming very white when peeled. It is, therefore, 
often grown in osier beds, but not much cultivated. The bark is so extremely bitter 
that rabbits and hares will not touch the plant. It is consequently well adapted for 
forming fences round warrens, or for protecting gardens from the depredations of 
these little animals. 
SPECIES (?) IX—SALIX DONIANA. Sm. 
Prats MCCCLXV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXXIV. Fig. 1233. 
Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 213. Hook, Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 361. Hook. & Arn. Brit. FL 
ed. viii. p. 403. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 313. 
S. repens-purpurea, Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 171. 
S. purpurea, var. sericea, Reich. Ic. 1. c. p. 22. 
Leaves alternate and subopposite, oblanceolate, broadest beyond the 
middle, acute, very faintly denticulate or serrate, dull green above, at 
length glabrous, with prominent reticulate veins when dried, livid- 
glaucous beneath, at length nearly glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, gene- 
rally absent. Catkins opening before the leaf-buds, the male catkins 
with small subsessile nonfoliaceous bracts at the base, cylindrical, 
slender, dense; female catkins rather slender, dense, erect-ascending, 
with a few subfoliaceous bracts at the base. Catkin-scales oblanceolate 
or obovate, blunt, pilose. Stamens 2, with the filaments combined 
nearly to the apex, slightly pilose at the base. Capsule ovate-conical, 
not acuminate, silvery-silky tomentose, rarely glabrous, on a stalk twice 
or thrice as long as the nectary; style very short, shorter than the 
stigmas; stigmas ovate, short, thick, entire or notched. Young leaves 
more or less thickly silky hairy, with adpressed pubescence especially 
beneath; young branches very slightly pubescent, soon quite glabrous. 
Sent from Scotland (probably Forfarshire) by G. Don to Anderson. 
Scotland. Shrub. Late Spring and early Summer. 
Of this plant the female alone has been reported as British. I have 
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