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long stalks, the style often scarcely distinguishable, at least until after 
flowering. , 
It differs from S. acuminata, Sm. in the leaves being more narrowed 
towards the base, less acuminate, the female catkins shorter, the cap- 
sule with a much longer stalk, and the styles much shorter. 
The varieties run so into each other, that it is often impossible to 
say to which of the three a form ought to be referred. 
Common Sallow. 
French, Saule cendré. German, Graue Weide. 
This tree is a type of the sallows which are known by their downy branches and 
rusty glittering hue. The sallow makes good copse wood, growing rapidly, and 
yielding a supply of long branches adapted for poles and hoops, and a variety of other 
purposes. It makes one of the best kinds of charcoal for gunpowder. None of the 
species do well in dry land. They require an abundant supply of moisture. The 
bark may be used for tanning, and is applied medicinally sometimes. Gerard tells us 
that Dioscorides writeth, “‘ Being burnt to ashes and steeped in vinegar, it takes away 
cornes and other like risings in the feet and toes.” “ Divers,” saith Galen, “ doe slit 
the bark while the withy is in flowring, and gather a certain juyce with which they use 
to take away things that hinder the sight, and this is when they are constrained to 
use a cleansing medicine of thin and subtile parts.” Both Gerard and Culpepper tell 
us that “Tis a fine cool tree, the boughs of which are very convenient to be placed in 
the chamber of one sick of a feaver, which thing is a wonderfull refreshing to the sicke 
patient.” 
SPECIES XVIL—SALIX AURITA. Lim. 
PLATE MCCOXXX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXV. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 848. 
Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 51. Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 69. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 4087, 
and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 216. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 365. Hook. & Arn. 
Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 408. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 311. 
Leaves obovate or subrotund- or oblong-obovate, often wedgeshaped 
at the base, broadest beyond the middle, obtuse and apiculate or shortly 
cuspidate, undulated and faintly serrate at the margins, which are 
narrowly reflexed but never revolute, rugose (from the veins being 
deeply impressed) and dull opaque green and usually pubescent above, 
more or less glaucous and pubescent with white or reddish-brown hairs 
beneath. Stipules shortly stalked or subsessile, half-reniform. Catkins 
opening rather before the leaf-buds, subsessile, with a few nonfoliaceous 
bracts at the base; the male catkins oblong, the female shortly eylin- 
drical. Catkin-scales strapshaped, sparingly pilose. Stamens 2 ; fila- 
ments free, nearly glabrous at the base. Capsule subulate-conical, 
whitish-tomentose, on a stalk three to five times as long as the nectary; 
