PL ex. mon . 
4. SALICINJE. 6. Salix. 
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Bark green ; branches many, spreading ; leaves acutely 
and regularly serrulated ; ament terminal, long, very slen- 
der, many-flowered ; capsules ovate, rather bald. 
14. Salix ceerulea. Blue willow . 
Stamens 2 ; leaves lanceolate, pointed, serrate, silky be- 
neath, growing smooth, lowest serratures glandular ; stig- 
mata 2-parted. 
Salix alba,var. Smith FI. Brit. 1072. 
Salix ceerulea, Engl. But. 2431. 
Damp fields ; tree ; May. 
Plant growing quick; leaves large, blueish. 
b. Ovary sessile; style long. 
15. Salix viminalis . Basket willow. 
Leaves lanceolate, linear, very long, pointed, not in the 
least notched ; above green, bald; beneath silvery, silky; 
branches rodlike ; style long. 
Eleagnus, Daleckamp Hist. Lugd. 278. 
Salix folio longissimo, Raii Syn. Pl. 450, 21. 
Salix viminalis, Lin. S. P. 1448. 
Osier. 
Holts and boggy places; shrub; April and May. 
Branches very long, silky ; leaves spread, 7 to 9 in. long ; 
waved ; ribs parallel; stipules linear, lanceolate, often none; 
aments cylindrical, early, very hairy ; capsules ovate, silky. 
16. Salix rosea. Bose willow. 
Stamens monadelphous ; trunk upright ; leaves lanceo- 
late, pointed, serrate, bald, beneath rather glaucous ; style 
long, filiform ; stigmata linear. 
Salix humilior foliis angustis subcseruleus, ex adverso binis, Raii Sun. 
448, 1 1 . 
Salix Helix, Lin. S. P. 1444. 
Salix inonandra, Hoffm. Sal. 1, 18. 
Holts and boggy places ; tree ; March and April. 
Tree slender, 10 feet high; branches tenacious, grey and 
purple, shining ; leaves petiolate, bitter ; ament long, thick, 
ovary silky ; capsules woolly, white. 
17. Salix Forby ana. Forby willow. 
Stamens monadelphous ; branches upright ; leaves rather 
stipuled, lanceolate, toothed, bald, above dark green, be- 
neath glaucous ; stigmata linear. 
