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LXXXy. SALICACEiE. 



[ Sdlix, 



Woods, thickets, and river-banks, principally in England, y 

 4, 5. — This species has the thinner and duller foliage of the last ; but 

 the leaves, except the upper ones on a shoot, do not turn black in 

 drying; thus it holds a kind of intermediate place, and appears to 

 unite the two. The form called S. laurina by Smith (or S, bicokr 

 E. B.) has the leaves considerably larger than the others and it often 

 becomes a small tree ; it thus is in some measure allied with S, caprea- 

 the style likewise is shorter than we usually find in this group' 

 the stigmas are often bipartite, and the scales frequently as lon^ q^ 

 longer thiliii. the stalk of the ovary, contrary to the description usually 

 given. Of our var. j8. we have only seen the leaves. 



32. S. pTiylicifolia L. : Wahl. {Tea4eaved W,') ; branches 

 twiggy, shoots and leaves soon quite glabrous, leaves dark 

 green rigid shining above and glaucous beneath not becomin 

 black by drying, stigmas entire or bipartite before divldino^ 

 oblong or orate (rarely linear?). -^a. ovaries and stalk silky or 

 hairy. S. radicans Sm. S. phylicifolia E, B, t. 1958 (leaves 

 obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, style elongated). S. Davalliana 

 Sm. : E, B, S, t. 2701 (leaves obovate-lanceolate pointed, style 

 as long as the stigmas). S. Weigeliana Bor7\ : E, B. t. 2656 

 (leaves broadly elliptical rhomboidal or almost round with a short 

 point, style longer than the stigmas). S. ama^na Bar 7\ S. niteas 

 Ander,: Borr, 





in 



E. B. S. t, 2655 (leaves ovate or elliptical 

 acute or pointed, style longer than the stigmas). S. Croweana 

 Sm,: E. B. t. 1146 (leaves elliptic-obovate scarcely acute, 

 stamens united at the base, style about as long as the stigmas). 

 S. Dicksoniana Sm.: E. B. t. 1390 (leaves elliptic or elliptic- 

 obovate with a point, style about as long as the stigmas).— 

 /?. ovaries glabrous below silky towards the point. S. laxiliora 

 Bo7^r. : E. B. S, t. 2749 (leaves broadly obovate narrowed at 

 the base, stigmas linear divided?) S. tetrapla Walk.: E.B.S. 

 t. 2702 (leaves elliptic oblong pointed). S. Weigeliana var. 

 Borr. sub. E. B. S. t. 2656 (leaves elliptical rhomboidal or 

 almost round with a short point). — y. ovaries entirely glabrous. 

 S. Borrerlana Sm,: E. B. S. t. 2619 (leaves broadly or ellipti- 

 cal-lanceolate, stalk of ovary hairy, style elongated). S. 

 phillyreifolia Borr. : E. B. S. t. 2660 (leaves elliptic lanceolate 

 acute at each end, stalk of ovary glabrous, style as long as the 

 stigmas). 



Principally in valleys in mountainous districts; rarely in the low 

 parts. Ji. 4, 5.— Twiggy bushes. We can find no good characters 

 to distinguish the above numerous supposed species ; and notwith- 

 standing we have been supplied with cultivated specimens by Mr. 

 Borrer in illustration of the figures in E. Bot and the Supp., we can- 

 not refer our wild ones (and those we have ourselves obtained from 

 gardens) with certainty to any of them, so variable is the foliage on 

 the same bush. The figure of S. Dicksoniana in E. B. is taken 

 apparently from a specimen in which the catkins are very young; they 



