AMENTIFERZ. 237 
From §. phylicifolia it differs in its larger size, its larger darker 
green and less shining suberect leaves, with the veins more elevated 
and more hairy beneath, in the catkins being more numerous on each 
branch, and in the capsule being densely silky-woolly with white 
hairs, on a longer stalk, but with a shorter style 
Intermediate Sallow. 
SPECIES XX—-SALIX PHYLICIFOLIA. “Linn.” Fries. 
Pirates MCCCXXXIV. MCCCXLVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXII. Fig. 2002. 
Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 131. Bab. Man, Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 312. Hook. & Arn. Brit. 
Fl. ed. viii. p: 410. 
S. Weigeliana, Willd., Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 76. 
Leaves at length somewhat rigid or subcoriaceous, oval or oblanceo- 
late-oval, or elliptical, or oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, shortly 
acuminate or acute, often undulated and crenate-serrate or faintly 
callous-serrate, rarely entire, green, very glossy, even and glabrous 
above, more or less glaucous and glabrous beneath, where the pri- 
mary veins are slightly elevated, and sometimes silky hairy. Stipules 
very small, ovate or lanceolate, half-heartshaped, often absent. Cat- 
kins opening at the same time as the leaf-buds, subsessile, or the 
female ones rather shortly stalked, and generally with a few foliaceous 
bracts at the base, ovoid or cylindrical, dense, or (in fruit) lax. 
Catkin-scales strapshaped, subacute, thinly pilose, rarely densely 
woolly. Stamens 2; filaments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate- 
conical, often grey or white, silky-tomentose or subglabrous, on a stalk 
2 or 3 times as long as the nectary; style elongate, equalling or 
exceeding the stigmas; stigmas short, oblong 2-cleft. Branches of 
the year finely and sparingly downy, very soon becoming glabrous; 
leaves sometimes turning black in drying, but only if gathered when 
young, when they are thin, green, and sparingly hairy on both sides, or 
glabrous above. 
Var. a, radicans. 
Prats MCCCXXXIV. 
S. radicans, Sm. Brit. Fl. Vol. TIT. p. 1053. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 368, 
8. phylicifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 958. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 173. 
Lower branches decumbent and rooting. Leaves elliptical-oblance- 
olate, acute. Capsule and stalk silky. Style long. 
