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pubescence, conspicuous stipules, shorter style and stigmas, and more 
bushy growth. 
Ambiguous Sallow. 
French, Saule ambigué. German, Zweifelhafte Weide. 
SPECIES XXIV.—SALIX REPENS. Ii. Auct, 
Prates MCCCLVI. to MCCCLXII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. DLXXXIX. DXC. and DXCL Figs. 1239 to 
1243. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1959. 
Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 114. Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 113. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 
p. 313. 
S. fusca, Hool:. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 3861. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 403. 
Leaves oblong-oval or oblong-elliptical or elliptical or oval, acute or 
subacute, entire or very faintly serrate, with the margins narrowly 
reflexed, even, reticulated, with the veins slightly prominent on both 
surfaces, bright green, shining and glabrous or more or less grey and 
silvery-silky above, glaucous and more or less thickly clothed with 
adpressed silky hairs beneath, or rarely glabrous when full grown. 
Stipules usually absent, but on vigorous barren shoots lanceolate. 
Catkins opening at the same time as the leaf-buds, or before them, 
subsessile or shortly stalked, with a few leaves at the base, oval-oblong, 
dense. Catkin-scales strapshaped or oblanceolate. Stamens 2; fila- 
ments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate-conical, grey with silky 
pubescence or glabrous, on a stalk 2 or 3 times as long as the nectary; 
style short; stigmas ovate, short, thick, entire or cleft. Young 
branches and buds more or less silky, young leaves silky-white. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Prats MCCCLVI. 
S. repens, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 183, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 208. 
Stem much branched, decumbent below; flowering branches ascend- 
ing. Leaves elliptical, with a straight point, entire, nearly glabrous 
above, glaucous and silky beneath. Stipules none. Capsule glabrous. 
Flowers with the young leaves. 
Var. 6, fusca. 
Prats MCCCLVIL, 
S. fusca, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1960, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 210. 
Stem suberect, much branched; branches short, spreading. Leaves 
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