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clothed with rust-coloured hairs. Stamens at first reddish, after- 
wards yellow. Capsule very densely tomentose, with dirty white 
or rust-coloured hairs. Hairs of the coma of the seeds dull white 
or reddish white. Style much shorter than the capsule, but variable 
in length. 
The var. @ of the eighth edition of the “ British Flora” I have not 
seen; it is described as having the leaves broadly or roundish-ovate, 
prominently veined above, green put scarcely shining on both sides. 
Dr. Walker-Arnott says it is precisely intermediate between some 
of the forms of S. Arbuscula and S. Myrsinites, and may be a hybrid. 
The ovaries are almost sessile, and the colour of the scales and 
the numerous lateral flower-shoots indicate its greater affinity to 
S. arbuscula. 
Plum-leaved Willow. 
French, Saule glabre. 
SPECIES XXXI-SALIX MYRSINITES. Linn. 
Prares MCCCOLXXV. MCCCLXXVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLIX and DLX. figs. 1188—1194. 
Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 97. 
Stems exposed, decumbent, main branches terminating in a barren 
shoot. Leaves firm, recurved, elliptical or oval or oblanceolate or 
obovate, obtuse or acute or acuminate, serrated or nearly entire, 
bright or dark green, glabrous, shining, with clevated veins above, 
green and glabrous or more or less hairy on the veins beneath; 
rarely pilose above or on both sides. Stipules rarely present, minute, 
lanceolate. Catkins opening at the same time as the leaf-buds or 
after them, at the apex of solitary or subsolitary rather long leafy 
lateral shoots, thick, oblong or oblong-cylindrical. Catkin-scales 
oval-oblanceolate, obtuse, dull purple, pilose. Stamens 2; filaments 
free, elabrous. Capsule lanceolate-conical or conical-subulate, pilose or 
pubescent, rarely glabrous at the base, on a stalk about as long as 
the nectary; style rather long, cleft at the apex; stigmas thick, 
generally notched or 2-cleft. Young branches thinly woolly or pilose ; 
young leaves sparingly pilose on both sides; buds hairy, soon be- 
coming glabrous. 
Var. a, serrata. 
Prare MCCCLXXV. 
S. Myrsinites, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1360, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 193. Hook. 
Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 372. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 412. Bab. Man. Brit. 
Bot. ed. vi. p. 315. 
Leaves oval, acute, serrated, at length nearly glabrous. Catkins 
short or elongate, thick. 
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