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elliptical or lanceolate more or less glaucous beneath thin, point 

 of stip. straight.— a. germen and stalk silky, st. erect.— a. S. co- 

 tinifolia (Sm.) ; 1. roundish elUptical or subcordate. E. B. 1403. 

 — b. S. nigricans (Sm.) ; 1. elliptic-lanceolate. E. B. 1213.— 

 c. S. Forsteriana (Sm.) ; 1. elliptie-obovate acute, stip. vaulted, 

 catkins long. E. B. 2344.-/3. S. rupestris (Donn) ; awlshaped 

 germ, and stalk silky or glabrous belovv, st. trailing, 1. elliptie- 

 obovate. E. B. 2342. — y. germen glabrous, stalk downy or gla- 

 brous, St. erect. — a. S. Andersoniana (Sm.) ; 1. elliptic-oblong 

 acute, caps, awlshaped not wrinkled. E. JS.2343. — b. S. damas- 

 cena (Forbes) ; 1. broadly eUiptical or subrhomboidal acute, caps, 

 not wrinkled. E. B. S. 2701*. — c. S. petrcea (And.) ; 1. oblong 

 or sublanceolate, caps, wrinkled near the top. E. B. S. 2725. — 

 ? S. hirta (Sm.) ; 1. elliptic-cordate pointed, " caps, very pubes- 

 cent " (Leefe) " glabrous " (Arnott) not wrinkled. — The varieties 

 are scarcely distinguishable. — Sides of streams, osier-grounds, 

 mountains. Sh. IV. — VI. 



C. F«re»/cs (Fries). L. smooth, scarcely any crisped pubescence 

 beneath, not turning black. Style manifest. 



18. S. laurina (Sm.) ; young shoots and 1. densely downy or 

 hairy towards the end, 1. afterwards glabrous dark dull green 

 above glaucous beneath (young 1. turning black). — a. stalk of 

 germ, hairy. — a. S. propinqua (Boit.) ; 1. elliptical acute, germ, 

 silky towards the end, style longer than stigmas. E. B. S. 2729. 

 — ^b. S. tenuior (Borr.) ; 1. elliptic-oblong acute, germ, silky, 

 style as long as stigmas. E. B. S. 2650. — c. S. laurina (Sm.); 

 1. obovate-lanceolate narrow acute, germ, silky, style longer than 

 stigmas. S. hicolor (Sm.), E. B. 1806. — /3. S. tenuifolia (L.) ; 

 germ, and style quite glabrous, 1. elliptical acute. E. B. S. 2795. 

 — Thickets and river banks, chiefly in England. Sh. IV. V. 



19. S. phylicifolia (L.); shoots and 1. soon quite glabrous, 

 1. rigid dark shining green above glaucous beneath not turning 

 black. — a. germ, and stalk silky or hairy.' — a. S.radicans (Sm.); 

 1. oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, style elongate. S. pi^ylicifolia 

 £. B. 1958. — b. S. Davalliana (Sm.) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate 

 pointed, style as long as stigmas. E.B.S. 270\. — c. S.Weigeliana 

 (Willd.) ; 1. roundish or elliptiealobscurely erenate (acute at both 

 ends in fertile plant), style longer than stigmas cloven. E. B. S. 

 2656. — d. S. niiens (And.) ; 1. elliptic-lanceolate acute at both 

 euds turning rather blackish, stylelonger than stigma undivided. 

 E.B. S. 2655. — e. S. CrotueaKa (Sm.) ; 1. elliptie-obovate rather 

 acute at both ends, style as long as stigmas, stam. free below. 

 E.B. 1146. — f. S. DicJcsoniana{Sm.) ; 1. elliptic rather acute, 

 style about as long as stigmas, catkins short. E. B. 1390. — 13. 

 lower part of germ, and stalk glabrous. — a. S. laxiflora (Borr.) ; 

 1. broadly obovate narrowed to the base, stigmas cloven. E. B S. 



