228 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES XIV-SALIX FERRUGIN EA. Anders. 
Prare MCCCXXV. 
S. cinerea-viminalis. Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 181. 
Leaves oblong-elliptical or strapshaped-elliptical, often acuminate, 
acute, distinctly undulated and repand and very finely serrate on the 
margins, which are revolute when young, rugose and dull green above, 
with the veins impressed, dull grey with cottony or woolly hairs 
beneath. Stipules usually rather large (rarely large), subsessile, 
shortly stalked, or subsessile, lanceolate or ovate-half-cordate, at length 
crescentshaped. Catkins opening before the leaf-buds expand; the 
male catkins with small nonfoliaceous bracts at the base, ovate-oblong, 
subsessile; the female catkins rather long, cylindrical, rather thick, 
dense, shortly stalked, with small foliaceous bracts at the base. 
Catkin-scales strapshaped-oblanceolate, pilose, brown at the apex. 
Stamens 2; filaments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate-conical, grey, 
silky-tomentose, on a stalk longer than the nectary; style generally 
short, about as long as the stigmas; stigmas rather short, oblong, 
usually entire. Young branches downy; buds downy or subglabrous; 
upper side of the leaves at first downy, and often remaining so per- 
manently. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Puars MCCCXXV. 
S. ferruginea, Borrer in B. B.S. No. 2665, and Hook. Brit. FI. ed. iv. p. 364, Hook. & 
Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 407. 
S. Smithiana, var. y. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. all. 
Style as long as the stigmas; stigmas narrowly oblong. 
Var. 6, rugosa. 
S. rugosa, Leefe, Sal. Brit. 
S. holosericea, Borrer in Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iy. p. 364. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 
p. 407 (non Willd. nee Koch.). 
S. Smithiana, 3 rugosa, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 311. 
S. acuminata, var. rugosa, Sm. M.S. 
Style shorter than the stigmas; stigmas broadly oblong. Leaves 
more silky below than in var. a. Catkin-scales darker and more 
hairy. 
By river sides and in wet places. Not unfrequent in England. 
Fifeshire, Scotland. I have no record of its occurrence in Ireland. 
Var. B, Lewes, Sussex; Richmond, Yorkshire; Pinley, Warwickshire. 
