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7. Sallow Willow. Salix Caprea, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1488, S. sphacelata, t. 2333, S. cinerea, t. 1897, S. aquatica, 

 t. 1437, S. olecBfolia, t. 1402, and probably 5. acuminata, t. 1434. Com- 

 mon Sallow.) 



A taU shrub or bushy tree. Leaves ovate or oblong, often rather large, 

 seldom tapering at the top, either narrowed, rounded, or broadly cordate at 

 the base, usually of a greyish green, more or less wrinkled, and whitish 

 underneath with a short crisped down not silky, entire or toothed, espe- 

 cially when old. Stipules usually conspicuous, broad and oblique. Catkins 

 sessile, the males usually closely so, with a few broad, scale-like bracts at 

 the base, oblong-cylindrical, an inch long or rather more, and very silky- 

 hairy ; the females not quite so close ;' the bracts often more leafy, and when 

 in fruit 2 inches long or more. Capsules downy-white, pedicellate, 3 or 4 

 lines long, tapering into a long beak. 



In woods, tliickets, and hedges, along streams, etc., throughout Europe 

 and Eussian Asia to the Arctic Circle. Common in Britain. Fl. early 

 spring. It varies very much in the size and shape of the leaves, the 

 amount of down, etc., but generally distinguished from all the preceding 

 species by the cottony, not silky, down, and wrinkled leaves, from most of 

 the following by its larger size. The grey Sallow {S. cinerea, Linn.) is 

 distinguished by some as being more downy, by others as less so, with the 

 leaves usually smaller, and the catkins not quite so thick and silky. 



8. Round-eared ^C^illo-w. Salix aurita, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1487.) 



AUied to the Sallow W. and perhaps a variety, but more bushy ; the 

 leaves smaller, usually obovate, about an inch long, but varying from orbi- 

 cular to oblong, and then often 2 inches long ; they are also more wi-inkled 

 than in the Sallow, waved on the edges, grey and downy, especially on the 

 under side ; the stipules very conspicuous. Male catkins closely sessile but 

 much smaller than in the Sallow, and the sUky hairs less prominent ; the 

 females about half an inch long when in flower, an inch when in fruit, on a 

 short stalk, with small leafy bracts. Capsules pedicellate, 2 to 3 lines long, 

 tapering at the top. 



In woods and thickets, in Europe and Russian Asia, from the Mediter- 

 ranean to the Arctic regions. Common in Britain. Fl. early spring. 



9. Tea-leaved 'Willow. Salix phylicifolia, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1146, 1213?, 1390, 1403, 1404, 1958, 2186, 2342, 2343, and 



2344.) 

 A bushy shrub, very variable in its foliage, some of the larger forms com- 

 ing very near the Sallow, whilst the smaller ones appear to pass gradually 

 into the whortle W. Young shoots and leaves often downy, when old 

 usually glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong or rarely lanceolate, usually 1 to 2 

 inches long, and pointed, not wrinkled, but the veins rather prominent 

 above, often toothed at the edge, and glaucous or whitish underneath, but 

 not closely sUky. Catkins more slender and less sOky than in the Salloio; 

 the males nearly sessUe, with a few broad, or sometimes leafy, bracts at the 

 base ; the females more stalked, with the bracts more leafy, usually under 

 an inch long when in flower, 1 to 2 inches when in fruit. Capsules shortly 

 stalked, glabrous or sUky or cottony-white, 2 to near 3 hues long when 

 ripe. 



