AMENTIFERZ. 229 
England, Scotland. Shrub. Spring. 
A bushy shrub, much resembling S. Smithiana, but with the leaves 
smaller, more attenuated towards the two extremities, more gradually 
acuminate, the margins more undulated and more distinctly serrate, 
duller green and more often hairy above, when mature duller grey 
and less silky beneath, the veins much more deeply impressed above, 
and more prominent beneath ; the stipules usually distinctly stalked, 
broader, more cordate at the base. The female catkins are longer. 
The capsule more slender, and on a longer stalk; the style shorter ; 
and the stigmas shorter, thicker, and almost always entire. 
Dr. Wimmer quotes specimens from Pinley as his §S. cinerea- 
viminalis. 
Ferruginous Osier. 
Sus-Secrion IJJ.—VETRIX. Dumort. 
Nectary wedgeshaped. Stamens 2, free; anthers ultimately dull 
yellow. 
Shrubs or small (rarely large) trees, with equitant vernation and 
catkins with or without bracts at the base. Leaves pubescent or 
glabrous, the pubescence generally crisped or woolly. 
Group I.—CAPREA. 
Style short. Catkin-scales rather small, brown at the apex. 
Shrubs or trees. Stipules reniform. 
SPECIES (?) XV—SALIX ACUMINATA. Sm. 
Prats MCCCXXVI. 
Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1484. Eng. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 227. Borrer in Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. 
iv. p. 364, Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 407. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 
p: 311. (mon Hofm.). 
S. Calodendron, Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 187. 
8. Caprea-dasyclados, Wimm. Denkschr. d. Schles. Ges. p. 163. 
S. dasyclados, Anders. in Bot. Gaz. Vol. IIL. p. 59, quo ad No. 37, Leefe, Sal. Brit. 
(non Wimm.). 
Leaves oblong-elliptical or oblong-oblanceolate, acuminate, acute, 
slightly undulated, and repand-crenate and very finely serrate at the 
margins, which are narrowly reflexed, but never revolute, even and 
dull green and finely pubescent above, glaucous and pubescent with 
white hairs beneath. Stipules sessile, at length lunate, half-cordate or 
cordate-sagittate at the base. Male flowers unknown (?), (stamens 2, 
Smith). Female catkins shortly stalked, with several large foliaceous 
