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Branches silky, — /3. S. cterulea (Sm.) ; 1. less silky beneath. 

 E. B. 2431. — y. S. vitellma (Sm.) ; branches bright yellow, 

 1. shorter and broader. K B. 1389.— Wet places. T. V. 

 White Willoto, E. S. I. 



ii. Triandrce. Stam. 3. Catkin-scales persistent. L, lanceo- 

 late approaching to ovate, glabrous. Catkins lax.— Osiers, 

 naturally trees. 



•5. S. unduldta (Ehrh.) ; 1. lanceolate much acuminate serrate 

 glabrous except when young, stip. J-cordate acute, caps, stalked 

 ovate acuminate, pedicel twice as long as the gland, style long, 

 stigma bifid, scalei very shaggy. — S. lanceolata Sm., JS. B. 1436. 

 — ^Height 12 — 16 feet. L. sometimes wavy, often quite sUky 

 when young. Germ, glabrous in S. lanceolata (or downy in 

 the foreign 8. undulata). — Near Lewes, Suss. Sh. or T. IV. V. 



E.I. 



C. <S. tnan'dra (L.); 1. oblong-lanceolate acute serrate gla- 

 brous, stip. J-cordate blunt, caps, stalked oblong-ovate glabrous, 

 stigma nearly sessile, scales glabrous. — JH. B. 1435. — Height 20 

 ■-T-SO feet. Germen not furrowed. L. narrowing down to the 

 stalk, somewhat paler beneath, or {S. triandra Curt.) lanceolate 

 wavy paler and glaucous beneath. — /3. S. Hoffmanmana (Sm.) ; 

 L somewhat rounded below ovate-lanceolate, stip. larger, scales 

 shaggy towards their base. — E. B. 8. 2620. — y. 8. amygdcdina 

 (L.); 1. oblong-ovate acute rounded below, caps, ovate tumid 

 furrowed, young shoots furrowed. E. B. 1936. — Wet woods 

 and osier-grounds. Sh. or T. IV. V. E. S. I. 



\_S. petioldris (Sm.) E. B. 1147, is stated by Lindley not to 

 be a European plant, and is therefore omitted.] 



Sec. 2. Oapbisalix (Dumort.). Catkins lateral, sessile, 

 without leaves or with two or three small leaves or leaflike 

 bracts at the base ; stalk sometimes elongated in fruit so as to 

 resemble a leafy shoot, but deciduous with the catkin. Catkin- 

 scales often discoloured at the end. Nectary simple (of one 

 piece), on the opposite side of the stam. or germen from the 

 catkin-scale. 



Subsec. 1. Selice (Dumort.). FUament 1 with a 4-ceIled 

 anther, or forked_with 2 anthers each of 2 cells. Anth. purple, 

 tUtimately black. Nectary cuneate. Catkins bracteate at the 

 base. Vernation equitant. — Purpurea Borr. 



7. 8. purpurea (L.) ; 1. lanceolate broader upwards acumi- 

 nate attenuate below finely serrate glabrous, caps, ovate very 



