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nonfoliaceous bracts at the base, ovate-oblong; the female catkins 
short, cylindrical, thick, dense, shortly stalked, with small foliaceous 
bracts at the base. Catkin-scales oblong-oblanceolate, pilose, brown 
at the apex. Stamens 2; filaments free, glabrous, “a little pilose at 
the base.” (Wimmer.) Capsule ovate-conical, grey, silky-tomentose 
on a stalk as long as or larger than the nectary; style commonly 
as long as the stigmas; stigmas usually long, filiform or narrowly 
oblong, entire or 2-cleft. Young branches and buds softly downy ; 
upper side of leaves at first downy, afterwards glabrous or remaining 
hairy. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Prats MCCCXXIV. 
Stipules small, lanceolate, not a quarter as long as petioles, unequal, 
but scarcely half-cordate at the base. 
Var. 6, stipularis. 
S. stipularis(?) Anders. in Bot. Gaz. Vol. III. p. 58 (quoad Leefe, Sal. Brit. Nos. 25 
and 26), non Sm. 
Stipules large, half as long as the petioles, half-cordate at the base. 
By the sides of rivers, and in meadows, osier grounds, and damp 
woods. Rather common, and generally distributed, except in the 
north of Scotland. Not unfrequent in Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Spring. 
A bushy shrub, with long round virgate reddish brittle branches, 
the twigs of the year softly downy. Leaves shortly stalked, 3 to 6 
inches long, variable in form, but usually inclining to lanceolate, and 
tapering more towards the apex than at the base when full-grown. 
Stipules shorter than the leaf-stalks, more or less curved. Catkins 
about 1 inch long, the female ones at length increasing to 1} or 
2 inches. Stalk of the ovary about as long as the scale, which is 
oblong. Style variable in length, sometimes very short until after 
flowering. 
The var. @ is often mistaken for S. stipularis, but that plant has the 
leaves narrower and more parallel-sided, and the stipules are larger and 
distinctly stalked. It has the female catkins also much longer. 
Silky-leaved Osier. 
German, Smith Weide, 
