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spreading. Young branches and buds more or less softly downy; 
young leaves at first downy above, at length glabrous. 
In osier holts, hedges, and woods. Rare. Near Bury St. Edmund’s, 
Suffolk. There is also a specimen in the British Herbarium of the 
Linnean Society, from “Lea Bridge Road, Essex.” It is also re- 
ported as found in Scotland by Mr. David Don, but this requires 
confirmation. 
England, Scotland (?). Shrub. Early Spring. 
This plant I have never seen alive, and possess no specimens of it. 
Smith describes it as hairy, the twigs upright, tall, soft, and downy, 
of a pale reddish-brown, brittle, and of little use as an osier. The 
leaves in the dried specimens I have seen vary from 5 to 7 inches in 
length, but probably there is a greater range in their size; they are 
broader than those of S. viminalis. The most remarkable point of 
difference, however, is the great size of the stipules upon the later 
shoots. These are frequently about 1 inch long, longer than the 
petioles, more or less distinctly stalked, acute, crenate at the base on 
the outer side, which is much more developed than the other. Male 
catkins about 1 inch long, somewhat like those of S. cinerea. Female 
catkins very long, 2 to 3 inches, or even more when in fruit. Stigmas 
extremely long. Stalk of the ovary shorter than the long cylindrical 
incurved scale. 
Wimmer considers this certainly a hybrid between S. viminalis and 
some other species, probably 5. dasyclados (/ost.), which is not 
known with certainty to be a British species. 
Auricled Osier. 
French, Saule & grandes stipules. German, Nebenblatt Weide. 
SPECIES (?) XUI.—S ALIX SMITH IANA. Willd. 
Prate MCCCXXIV. 
Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 999, Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 364, Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. 
ed. viii. p. 406. 
§. Smithiana, var. a. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 310. 
S. Caprea-viminalis. Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 178. 
S. mollissima, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1509 (non Ehrh.). 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptical, acute, slightly 
undulated and very faintly crenate or nearly entire on the margins, 
which are revolute when young, smooth and bright green above, with 
the veins but faintly impressed, greyish-white, with somewhat satiny 
hairs beneath. Stipules small (rarely rather large), sessile, lanceolate, 
sometimes half-cordate, at length crescentshaped. Catkins opening 
before the leaf-buds expand; the male catkins subsessile, with sinall 
