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[ Salix. 
drying ; thus it appears to be intermediate between S', nigricans and 
S. phylicifolia, and to unite the two. The form called S. laurina by 
Smith (or S. bicolor E. B. ) has the leaves considerably larger than the 
others, and it often becomes a small tree ; it thus is in some measure 
allied with S. Caprea; the style likewise is shorter than we usually 
find in this group, the stigmas are often bipartite, and the scales fre- 
quently as long as or longer than the stalk of the ovary, contrary to the 
description usually given. Of our var. fS. we have only seen the leaves. 
32. S. phylicifolia L. ( Tea-leaved W.); branches twiggy, 
shoots and leaves soon quite glabrous, leaves dark green 
rigid shining above and glaucous beneath not becoming black 
by drying, stigmas entire or bipartite before dividing oblong 
or ovate(rarely linear?). — er. ovaries and stalk silky or hairy. 
S. radicans Sm. S. phylicifolia E. B. t. 1958 (leaves obovate 
or elliptic-lanceolate, style elongate). S. Davalliana Sm. : 
E. B. S. t. 2701 (leaves obovato-lanceolate pointed, style as 
long as the stigmas). S. Weigeliana Willd.: E. B. S. t. 2656 
(leaves broadly elliptical rhomboidal or almost round with a 
short point, style longer than the stigmas). S. amoena Borr. S. 
nitens Ander. : Borr. in E. B. S. t. 2655 (leaves ovate or ellip- 
tical acute or pointed, style longer than the stigmas). S. Crow- 
eana Sm. : E. B. t. 1146 (leaves elliptic-obovate scarcely acute, 
stamens united at the base, style about as long as the stigmas). 
S. Dicksoniana Sm. : E. B. t. 1390 (leaves elliptic or elliptic- 
obovate with a point, style about as long as the stigmas). — 
/3. ovaries glabrous below silky towards the point. S. laxiflora 
Borr.: E. B. S. t. 2749 (leaves broadly obovate narrowed at 
the base, stigmas linear divided?). S. tetrapla Walk.: E.B.S. 
t. 2702 (leaves elliptic oblong pointed). S. Weigeliana var. 
Borr. sub E. B. S. t. 2656 (leaves elliptical rhomboidal or 
almost round with a short point). — y. ovaries entirely glabrous. 
S. Borreriana Sm.: E. B. S. t. 2619 (leaves broadly or ellipti- 
cal-lanceolate, stalk of ovary hairy, style elongate). S. 
philly reifolia Borr.: E. B. S. t. 2660 (ieaves elliptic-lanceolate 
acute at each end, stalk of ovary glabrous, style as long as the 
stigmas). 
Principally in valleys in mountainous districts ; rarely in the low 
parts, h" 4, 5.- — -Twiggy bushes. We can find no good characters 
to distinguish the above numerous supposed species ; and notwith- 
standing we have been supplied with cultivated specimens by Mr. 
Borrer in illustration of the figures in E ■ Bot. and the Supp., we can- 
not refer our wild ones (and those we have ourselves obtained from 
gardens) with certainty to any of them, so variable is the foliage on 
the same bush. The figure of S. Dicksoniana in E. B. is taken ap- 
parently from a specimen in which the catkins are very young ; they 
afterwards elongate, but are scarcely ever more than l| times their 
breadth when the capsules are mature ; it is a smaller shrub than 
usual in this species, and in that respect more like the next group : 
