DTOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 291 



Shrub. May. 



Young twigs woolly. Ls. egg-shaped, or ovally oblong. Catk. 

 from the sides of the stem. Seed-vessel somewhat red. Ste?ns 

 taking root, Ls. with short foot-stalks, terminated by a short 

 point. Caik. numerous, alterna,te, short, bhuit, scales inversely 

 egg-shaped, blunt, hairy, reddish. Root thick, creeping, knotty, 

 blackish. Ripens its caps, in June, and July. 

 Smallest of our common willows. 



Sa. cinerea. See Appendix. 



S. aurita. Round-eared^ Trailinq Sallow. Branches 

 trailing. Leaves somewhat saw-toothed, convex, in- 

 versely egg-shaped, blunt, with a small, hooked point ; 

 hairy, and netted with veins, on both sides. Stipulas 

 roundish, convex, toothed. Germen silky, stalked. 

 Stigmas nearly stalkless. E. B. 1487- 



Moist tvooJs, and thickets. 



Shrub. April. 



Very branching, small tree, with hoary, brownish, ash-coloured 

 branches. Ls. alternate, with short foot-stalks, when fully 

 grown, curled, and w'aved. Stip. more frequently rounded, 

 toothed, soft-haired, veiny, and persistent. Catk. from the very 

 short side branches, solitary, cylindrical, scales brown, more or 

 less hairy. 



Smallest of the Sallows ; not so general as Sa. aquatica : covered 

 with small catk. in April, or May, while the leaves are just 

 budding. Branches shoot horizontally to a great extent. Ls. 

 vary much in size : known by their great ruggedness, inversely 

 egg-shaped, or blunt form, and hooked point. 



S. aquatica. Water Sallow. Stem and branches erect. 

 Leaves slightly saw-toothed, inversely egg-shaped- 

 elliptical, minutely downy, flat ; rather glaucous 

 beneath. Stipulas rounded, toothed. Germen silky, 

 stalked. Stigmas nearly stalkless. E. B. 1437. S. 

 cinerea. With. S. acuminata. Sb. 17* 



Wet hedye-ro7A)s, woods, swamps, banks of ponds, or rivers. 



Shrub, or small tree. April. 



Ls. with short foot-stalks, more or less acute, even, scarcely rough, 

 all soft, ash-coloured green, the upper surface ultimately becom- 

 ing smooth, underneath sea-greenish, veiny, and a little hairy. 



Nearly allied to Sa. aurita ; much smaller in all its parts, than 

 Sa. caprea. Catk. cylindi'ical, with small, brown-tipped, hairy 

 scales, an oblong neet. to each. Ls. vary in size and shape, 

 more or less inversely egg-shaped, downy, and veiny ; thin, 

 soft, pliable, flat, and not crisped, or waved, in which latter par- 

 ticulars they differ greatly from those of Sa. cinerea, and Sa. 

 aurita. 



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