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LXXXV. SALICACEA:. 
[ Sdlix. 
leases often opposite broader upwards acuminate serrulate, 
stipules none. — a. decumbent, branches purple. E. B. t. 1388 
(bitter purple W.). — (5. erect, young branches purplish or 
yellow. S. Lambertiana Sm. : E. B. t. 1359 (Boyton W., 
leaves lanceolate .) S. Woollgariana Borr. : E. B. S. t. 2651 
(Woollgar’s W., leaves cuneate-lanceolate). 
Marshes and banks of rivers. b- 3 — 5. — Anthers in this and 
S. Helix purple, becoming at length black. 
2. S. Helix L. ( Rose IF.) ; filament 1, capsule ovate, style 
conspicuous, stigmas bifid the segments nearly linear, leaves 
often opposite lanceolate broadest upwards acuminate serrulate, 
stipules none. E. B. t. 1343. 
Marshes and the banks of rivers, b- 3, 4. — Mr. Leefe conjoins 
this with the last: and it only differs by the much longer style, and 
at length cloven stigmas : these last are sometimes entire when young, 
in which case they are ovate, as in S. purpurea. Branches erect: their 
bark glossy and yellow. 
3. S. Forbydna Sm. ( fine Basket O.) ; “monandrous, erect, 
leaves with small downy stipules lanceolate-oblong serrate 
glabrous, style equal in length to the linear divided stigmas.” 
Borr.: E. B. t. 1344. 
Meadows and osier-grounds at Fincham and near Lynn, Norfolk ; 
Cambridgeshire. b . 4. — “Stems yellowish-green, glossy. Allied 
to S. Helix, especially in the fructification, but differing in foliage. 
This species is much esteemed by basket-makers, for the finer sorts of 
wicker-work.” All the flowering fertile specimens we have received 
or seen cultivated under this name have, however, the stigmas linear 
and entire, and do not differ from the next, with which Mr. Leefe 
conjoins it on account of its having stipules and constantly alternate 
leaves. The true sterile plant is as yet unknown ; but Smith, judging 
from specimens in which some of the styles were converted into sta- 
mens, has described the latter as having a simple filament : we do not 
know the colour of the anthers. 
4. S. rubra Huds. ( green-leaved O .) ; filaments 2, united at 
the base, capsule oblong-ovate, style elongated, stigmas linear 
undivided, leaves alternate linear-lanceolate (broader in the 
fertile plant) acuminate serrate, stipules minute. E. B. 1. 1145. 
Low meadows and osier-grounds, rare. Maidenhead ; Windsor ; 
near Salisbury ; Cambridgeshire ; Carlisle. Frequent in hedges and 
osier-grounds, Scotland. b- 4,5. — A small tree, with longer and 
more lanceolate and acuminate leaves than any other in the present 
group, in the latter particular approaching, as Sir J. E. Smith re- 
marks, S. viminalis, but wanting its dense white pubescence. The 
stamens are always more or less combined, below only, into one fila- 
ment, as in S'. Croweana, which in other respects is quite a different 
plant ; anthers yellow, becoming brown, but scarcely ever black, by 
drying. 
