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point, hairy or shaggy. Capsule generally olive or reddish-brown, 
though this colour is sometimes obscured by the grey or whitish 
pubescence. 
From S$. laurina it differs in being a smaller plant, with the 
branches making a greater angle with each other, the leaves less 
upright, smaller, more shining above, with the veins less elevated and 
less hairy beneath, the capsules much less woolly on shorter stalks and 
with longer styles. The young branches and leaves in the forms of 
_ 5. phylicifolia, which have these hairy, become glabrous much sooner 
than in S. laurina. 
Some of the varieties, as tetrapla and propinqua, are very probably 
hybrids between S. phylicifolia and S. nigricans; if not, these two 
should perhaps be included under one superspecies, as has been done 
by Mr. Bentham in his “ Handbook of the British Flora.” 
Tea-leaved Sallow. 
French, Saule philica. German, Zweifarbige Weide. 
Mr. Loudon says, “ This Salix, when covered with male blossoms, is amongst the 
most handsome, nor are the leaves destitute of beanty.” 
SPECIES XXI-SALIX NIGRICANS. “Smn.,” Fries. 
Prates MCCCXLVII.—MCCCLIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLX XXIII. fig. 2117. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1960. 
Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 125. Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 70. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 
p. 312. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 408. 
8. phylicifolia, var. 6, Linn. Spec. Plant, p. 1442. Benth. Handbk. Brit. Fl. ed. ii, 
p. 426. 
Leaves at length firm, but not rigid or coriaceous, oval or oblong- 
oval or oblong-obovate or elliptical or oblanceolate, shortly acuminate 
or acute, often undulated and crenate-serrate or faintly callous-serrate, 
rarely entire, green, slightly glossy, rugose and usually subglabrous 
above, paler or slightly glaucous and subglabrous beneath, where the 
primary veins are much elevated, and often silky-hairy. Stipules conspi- 
cuous, ovate, half-heartshaped, generally present. Catkins opening at 
the same time as the leaf-buds, subsessile, or the female ones rather 
shortly stalked, and with a few foliaceous bracts or leaves at the base, 
ovoid or cylindrical, dense, or rather lax in fruit. Catkin-scales strap- 
shaped, subacute or obtuse, pilose. Stamens 2; filaments free, pilose 
at the base. Capsule conical-subulate, glabrous or slightly tomentose, 
on a stalk four to eight times as long as the nectary; style elongate, 
usually equalling the stigmas; stigmas short, oblong, usually 2-cleft. 
Branches of the year downy; leaves turning black in drying when 
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