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"germ, oblong-ovate very pubescent sessile, style short, stigmas 
almost linear emarginate," anth. 1, slip. 0. — E. B. 1343. — Height 
10 — 12 feet. Twigs pale yellowish or tinged with purple, po- 
lished. " Style nearly as long as the stigmas." Closely allied 
to <S. lambertiana, but that is stated to have " ovate- emarginate 
stigmas." — Wet places. T. III. IV. Rose Willow. 
12. S. rubra (Huds.) ; 1. linear-lanceolate acuminate glabrous 
green on both sides, germ, oblong-ovate very pubescent, style 
elongated, stigmas ovate undivided, anth. 2 : filaments combined 
below, stip. linear.— E. B. 1145.— Height 10— 20 feet. Twigs 
usually tawny. L. like those of S. viminalis but without the 
white pubescence. — Low meadows. T. IV. V. 
13. S.forbyana (Sm.) ; 1. lanceolate-oblong serrated glabrous, 
style nearly as long as the linear divided stigmas, anth. 1, stip. 
linear-lanceolate. — E.B. 1344. — Height 5 — 8 feet. Twigs gray- 
ish-yellow. L. rather paler and somewhat glaucous beneath. 
I am unacquainted with this plant. — Wet meadows. Sh. IV. 
vi. Viminales (Borr.). Stara. 2. Anth. permanently yellow. 
Catkins bracteated at the base ; scales discoloured at the end. 
Stalks of the caps. 0, or shorter than the gland. Pubescence of 
the 1. silky. 
14. S. viminalis (L.) ; 1. linear or linear-lanceolate obscurely 
crenate white silky and shining beneath, stip. small sublanceo- 
late, capsule very shortly stalked lanceolate-subulate, style elon- 
gated, stigmas undivided. — E.B. 1898. — Height 10—20 feet. 
Branches wandlike, long, slender. Gland longer than the stalk 
of the germen. — /3. intricata (Leefe) ; 1. broader, germen shorter 
and broader, style very short, stigmas from the first cloven re- 
flexed and entangled. — y. stipulates (Leefe) ; I. lanceolate, stip. 
linear-lanceolate denticulate or semicordate-acuminate, stigmas 
elongated. — Mr. Leefe gives several other forms which show how 
difficult it is to define the species of Salix. — -Wet places. Sh. 
IV. V. Common Osier. 
15. S. stipularis (Sm.) ; 1. lanceolate very obscurely crenate 
white and downy beneath, stip. half cordate acute, caps, ovate 
nearly sessile, style very short (Sm.) elongate (Hook.), stigmas 
linear undivided. — E. B. 1214. — Height 10 — 20 feet with up- 
right brittle reddish-brown twigs. — Wet places. Sh. III. 
16. S. smithiana (Willd.) ; I. elongate-lanceolate obscurely 
crenate white with satiny pubescence beneath, stip. small narrow 
acute, caps, stalked lanceolate-subulate, pedicel as long as the 
gland, style elongate, stigmas long linear mostly entire. — E. B. 
1509- — Twigs erect, somewhat downy, brittle. — Wet places. 
Sh. IV. V. 
17. S. rugosa (Sm.) ; 1. elongate-lanceolate scarcely crenate 
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