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style scarcely any; stigmas short, ovate, entire or notched. Branches 
of the year finely downy, and buds subglabrous or glabrous. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Leaves obovate or oval-obovate. 
Var. 8, minor. 
Leaves subrotund-obovate. A smaller plant than var. a, rarely 
more than 1 foot high. Leaves not exceeding } to 1 inch in length. 
In moist woods and in wet places, on heaths and commons. Plentiful, 
and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Late Spring. 
A bushy shrub, rarely more than 3 or 4 feet high, with numerous 
diffuse branches, the young ones soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 
similar to those of S. cinerea, var. aquatica, but smaller (rarely above 
2 inches long, and often less), and much more rugose above. The 
stipules are usually larger, broader in proportion, and never absent on 
the later shoots. Catkins similar to those of S. cinerea, but smaller, 
rarely more than 4 or ? inch long when in flower. Capsule consider- 
ably narrower than in S. cinerea ; style shorter or altogether indis- 
cernible ; stigmas shorter and thicker. 
Wrinkled-leaved Sallow. 
French, Saule ridé. German, Geohrte Weide. 
SPECIES XVIT—SALIX CAPREA. Lin. 
Pruatrs MCCCXXXI. MCCCXXXII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXVII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 462. 
Wimmer, Sal. Europ. p.55. Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 75. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 
p. 408. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 311. 
Leaves oval or roundish-oval or elliptical, broadest near the middle, 
or a little beyond it, rounded or subcordate rarely wedgeshaped 
towards the base, shortly acuminate or cuspidate, undulated and 
usually crenate-serrate at the margins, which are very narrowly re- 
flexed, but never revolute, even and at length glabrous and dull green 
above, grey and tomentose beneath, where they are pubescent with 
white hairs on the veins. Stipules subsessile, semicircular, half-reniform. 
Catkins opening before the leaf-buds, subsessile, with a few non- 
foliaceous bracts at the base; the male catkins ovate-oblong, the female 
at first oblong, afterwards cylindrical. Catkin-scales oblanceolate, 
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