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very glaucous beneatli. Wood and bark liighly valuable. Bi d- 
fw'd Wilhno. — Damp meadows and oaier-Qrounds. T. IV. V. 
•' E. S. I. 
iii. AJhce (Borr.). Staui. 2. L. hairy with adpressed silky 
hairs when young. Catkins lax. — Trees. 
4. S. aVha (L.) ; 1. elliptic-lanceolate glandular-seiTate acute 
8ilky on both sides when young, stip. minute, caps, nearhj svmle 
ovate-acuminate glabrous, 3t\ie short, stigmas thick recun ed 
bifid.— ^. B. 24-30.— Height oO— 80 feet. Scales shorter than 
stam., as long as caps, in a. and ^, exceeding them both in y. 
Branches silky. — /3. 6'. ccendea (Sm. ) ; 1. less silky beneath. E. B. 
24:31. — y. S. viteJlina (Sm.) ; branches bright yellow, 1. shorter 
and broader. — Wet places. T. \. White Willow. E. S. I. 
** Scales of {he catkins persistent. 
iv. Triandrce (Borr.). Stam. 3. L. lanceolate approaching 
to ovate, glabrous. Catiins lax. — Osiers, natui-ally trees. 
*o. S. itndulcUa (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, sti/Ie lo)if/, 
stisrma bifid, scaks very skaffr/ij. — S. lanccolata Sm., H. B. 1436. 
— Height 12 — 15 feet. L. sometimes wavy, often quite silky 
when young. Germ, glabrous in S. lanceolala (or downy in the 
foreign S. undidata). — Near Lewes, Suss. T. TV. \. E. 
6. iS". trian 'dra (L.) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate acute serrate gla- 
brous, stip. |-cordate blunt, caps, stalked oblong-ovate glabrous, 
stigma jwarly sessile, scales glabrous. — E. B. 1435. — Height 20 — 
30 feet. Germen not furrowed. L. naiTowii.g down to the 
stalk, somewhat paler beneath, or (<S'. triandra Curt.) lanceolate 
wavy paler and glaucous beneath. — ^. iS". Hoffmanniana (Sm.) ; 
1. somewhat rounded below ovate-lanceolate, stip. larger, scales 
shaggy towards their base. E. B. S. 2620. — y. S. amygdalina 
(L.);'l. oblong-ovate acute romided below, caps, ovate tumid 
furrowed, yoimg shoots furrowed. E. B. 1936. — Wet woods 
and osier-grounds. T. TV. V. E. S. I. 
[S. petioldris (Sm.) E. B. 1147. is stated by Lindleynot to be 
a European plant and is therefore omitted.] 
n. SZSSILES LATEBALES. 
Catkins lateral, sessile, without leaves or with two or three 
small leaves or leaflike bracts at the base ; stalk sometimes elon- 
gated in fiiiit so as to resemble a leafy shoot but deciduous with 
the catkin. Sealee( discoloured or purple at the end. 
