230 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
bracts at the base, oblong-cylindrical, rather thick, dense. Catkin- 
scales oblanceolate, hairy. Capsule hairy, ovate-conical, on a stalk 
rather shorter than the nectary, or not much exceeding it ; style nearly 
as long as the stigmas ; stigmas short, ovate-oblong, undivided. Young 
branches and buds softly downy. 
In rather moist woods and hedges. “ Frequent.” Smith. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Tree or Shrub. Early Spring. 
A tree sometimes attaining considerable size, with grey bark and 
brown twigs, of which the young ones are densely and softly hairy. 
Leaves rather shortly stalked, 3 to 5 inches long, ¢ to 15 inch broad, 
with the veins prominent and reddish straw-colour beneath, the whole 
surface densely pubescent beneath when young, and remaining 80 
even when mature. Stipules commonly present on the barren shoots, 
at first half-ovate, afterwards curving, denticulate, strongly nerved, 
glaucous on the outer side. Catkins suberect, slightly curved, 1} to 
2 inches long. Catkin-scales bearded, blackish at the apex. Nectary 
large, oblong. 
Dr. Wimmer considers this a hybrid, of which S. dasyclados may 
be one of the parents, and either S. Caprea or S. cinerea the other, but 
it is impossible to speak with certainty upon this point. As 8. dasy- 
clados is not known to occur in Britain, if it should be discovered to 
be one of the parents of S. acuminata, tne latter could not be considered 
truly native. 
Long-leaved Sallow. 
SPECIES XVI-SALIX CINEREA. Lim. 
Prares MCCCXXVIL.—MCCCXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXXVI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2364. 
Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 47. Anders. Mon, Sal. p. 71. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 
p. 407. Bab. Man, Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 311. 
Leaves oblong-oblanceolate or -obovate or elliptical-oblong, broadest 
beyond the middle, often wedgeshaped at the base, acuminate and 
acute or obtuse and apiculate, more or less undulated and repand- 
crenate, and finely serrate at the margins,* which are usually narrowly 
yeflexed but never revolute, even and dull ashy-green and usually 
finely pubescent above, more or less glaucous and pubescent with 
white or reddish-brown hairs beneath. Stipules sessile, at length lunate, 
half-cordate at the base. Catkins opening before the leaf-buds, sub- 
sessile, with a few nonfoliaceous bracts at the base; the male catkins 
oblong, the female cylindrical. Catkin-scales oblong-oblanceolate, hairy 
* At least the later leaves. 
