6C2 BIOECIA DIANDRIA. 



*** Foliis iiitegerrmis villojis, 



Aurita 9. SALIX foliis integerrimis utrinque villofis obova- 

 tis appeiR-licularis. Sp. pi 1446. (Flor. Lappon, 

 Q,6g. /. S.f.y. Ger. em. 390./. 3. J 

 Small round-eared Willow. JngUs. 

 In woods, hedges, &cc. frequent, h . V. VI. 

 1 his grows up to a fmall tree, from a yard to 

 eight feet high, the twigs hard and divaricated. 

 The leaves are about the fize of a fixpence when 

 full grown, not quite round, but obtulely oval, 

 -;■ ■ • being wider at the end than at the bafe : they 



\-\: are wrinkled with large fwelling veins, and, 



wlien young, are woolly on both fides, but this 

 wears off in fome degree from the upper fide, as 

 the leaves grow older : at the bafe of their foot- 

 llalks are fmall roundifli Jiipulce, or auricles, 

 which are largeft towards the fummits of the 

 branches. The catkins are fmall, fhort, and 

 oval, about half an inch long, the males yellow, 

 the fcales minute, lanceolate, and downy -, the 

 females white, the capfules woolly, almoft cy^ 

 lindrical, but fwelling a little at the bafe, and 

 fupported on fiiort footftAlks. 



.f<n.iia 10, SALIX foliis utrinque lanatli fubrotundis acutis .? 

 Sp pi. 1446. {Flor. happen, ■i^^'i. t. 8. f. x. ^ 

 t. 7./. 7. bene.) Salix foliis integerrimis, ovato- 

 hinceolatis, jubtus ferueis, julis ovatis. Haller. 

 hijl. n, 1651. 



Downy 



