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Sdlix.'] 



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393 



or 



Marshes and banks of rivers. Tj . S — 5. — Anthers in this and 

 S. Helix purple, becoming at length black. 



2. S- Helix L. (Rose W.) ; filament 1, capsule ovate, style 

 conspicuous, stigmas bifid the segments nearly linear, leaves 

 often opposite lanceolate broadest upwards acuminate serrulate, 

 stipules none. £. -B. t. 1343. 



Marshes and the banks of rivers. Ti . 3, 4. — Mr. Leefe conjoins 

 this with the last : and it only differs by the much longer stt/le^ 

 and at length cloven stigmas : these last are sometimes entire when 

 young, in which case they are ovate, as in S, purpurea, 

 erect: their bark glossy and yellow, 



3. S. Forhydna Sm. {fine Basket O.) ; " monandrous, erect, 

 leaves with small downy stipules lanceolate-oblong serrate 

 glabrous, style equal in length to the linear divided stigmas." 

 Borr.: £. 5.t, 1344. 



Meadow and osier-grounds at FIncham, Norfolk, and near Lynn, 

 Cambridgeshire, P? . 4. — " Stems yellowish-jrreen, slossv. Allied 



Branches 



Pj . 4. — " Stems yellowish-green, glossy, 

 to S, Helix, especially in the fructification, but differing in foliage. 

 This species is much esteemed by basket-makers, for the finer sorts of 

 wicker-work." All the flowering fertile specimens we have received 

 or seen cultivated under this name have, however, the stigmas linear 

 and entire, and do not differ from the next, with which Mr. Leefe 

 conjoins it on account of its having stipules and constantly alternate 

 leaves. The true sterile plant is as yet unknown ; but Smith, judging 

 from specimens in which some of the styles were converted into sta- 

 mens, lias described the latter as having a simple filament : we do not 

 know the colour of the anthers. 



4. S. rubra Huds. (green-leaved^ O.); filaments 2, united at 

 the base, capsule oblong-ovate, style elongated, stigmas linear 

 undivided, leaves alternate linear- lanceolate (broader in the 

 fertile plant) acuminate serrate, stipules minute. E, B. 1. 1145. 



Low meadows and osier-holts, rare. Maidenhead 

 near Salisbury ; Cambridgeshire; Carlisle, 

 osier-grounds, Scotland. 



Windsor ; 

 Frequent In hedges and 



\l, 4, 5. — A small tree^ with longer and 



more lanceolate and acuminate leaves than any other in the present 



group, In the latter particular approaching, as Sir J. E. Smith re- 



niarks, S. viminalis, but wanting its dense white pubescence. The 



stameiis are always more or less combined, below only, into one fila- 



inent, as in S, Croweana, which in other respects is quite a different 



plant : anthers yellow, becoming brown, but scarcely ever black, by 

 dryin 





11. Stamens 3. Ovary stalked, usiialhj glabrous. Catkins leaf g, lax ; 

 ■ their scales persistent of the same pale colour throughout : " nectary 



double,'' Leefe. Leaves between lanceolate and ovate, glabrous, serrate. 



^tipuJes shorter than the petiole. Trees or large shrubs, casti?ig 



their bark in autumn, Triandr^e Borr. 



^^ S. tridndra L. (blunt- stipuled triandrous W.) ; leaves ser- 



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