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6. Salix. 4. SALICINiE. 
PI. ex. moil , 
Branches spreading ; leaves flat, very rarely and slightly 
crenate, tips brownish; capsules narrowed at the end, be- 
coming rather naked. 
33. Salix caprea. Sallow willow. 
Leaves ovate, pointed, serrate, waved ; above smooth, 
bald; beneath tomentose; stipule rather lunate; capsules 
ventricose, villous. 
Salix lati folia rotunda, Rail Syn. 449, 15. 
Salix fr.lio suhrotundo auriculata, Rail Cant. 145, 2. 
Salix caprea a, Lin. S . P. 1448. 
Salix caprea y. Muds. FI. Angl. 429. 
Woods and hedges ; tree; April. 
Branches shining; small branches pubescent; leaves va- 
riously shaped, waved, veined beneath; stipules recurved; 
ament early, ovate ; capsule ovate, villose. 
34. Salix mollissima . Velvet willow. 
Leaves lanceolate, pointed, subcrenated; beneath silky, 
woolly; stipules lunate, very small. 
Salix mollissima, Smith Flor. Brit. 1070; Ehrh. Arh. 79 ? 
Holts; shrub; March. 
Branches erect, very tough, rather bald ; leaves above 
green, smooth, quite bald; petiole attenuated ; aments ovate, 
small; ovary shortly pedicelled; syle short; stigmata linear, 
very deeply divided. 
35. Salix acuminata. Pointed willow . 
Leaves lanceolate, oblong, pointed, waved and slightly 
toothed ; above smooth, rather bald ; beneath tomentose ; 
stipules kidneysliape ; capsule ovate, narrowed, pubescent. 
Salix caprea acuto longoque folio, Raii Syn. 450, 19. 
Salix caprea latifolia, Ger.em. 1390, 4. 
Salix caprea, var. Lightf. Ft. Scot. 608. 
Salix acuminata, Mill. Diet. 8, 14. 
Woods and hedges; tree; April. 
Branches rather smooth ; leaves above light green ; main- 
rib beneath reddish ; stipules toothed ; aments early, ovate, 
cylindrical ; style rarely 2-cut. 
36. Salix stipularis . Large-stipuled willow. 
Leaves lanceolate, pointed, slightly crenate, above bald, 
beneath tomentose, stipules nearly heartshape, very large; 
perigonium cylindrical, long. 
Salix stipularis, Engl. Bot. 1214. 
Holts; shrub; March. 
Branches erect, woolly; leaves long, unequally and slightly 
crenate ; stipules with a short petiole. 
