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I. SALIX PENTANDRA. Bay-leaved Willow. Plates 18; 19 
Salix folio laureo sive lato glabro odorato folio nondum descripta Johnson Merc. Bot. ii, 32 (1641); Ray Syn. 
ed. 3, 449 (1724). 
Salix pentandra L. Sp. PL 1016 (i 753 )!j Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 202 (1868); A. et G. Camus Classif. 
Sard. 84 (1904); v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 61 (1908); Rouy FI. France xii, 192 (1910); 
S. meyeriana Hooker Brit. FI. 417 (1830) non Willdenow. 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1805; Forbes Sal. Woburn, t. 34; FI. Dan. t. 943; Reichenbach Icon. t. 612, 
fig. 1268; Hartig Forst. Culturpfl. t. 36; A. et G. Camus op. cit. y Atlas t. 4. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii (1913). Plate 18. (a) Shoot with staminate catkins, (b) Staminate flowers. ( c ) Stami- 
nate flower (enlarged). West Riding of Yorkshire (A. W.). ( d ) Shoot with pistillate catkins, (e) Barren shoot. 
Map 2. Distribution of Salix pentandra in the British Isles. S. pentandra is indigenous in the counties which are shaded, 
but more or less doubtfully so in those which are marked “?” 
(/) Pistillate flowers. (g) Pistillate flowers (enlarged). (Hort. Rev. E. F. Linton.) (k) Autumnal leaf. 
Forfarshire (C. E. M.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 1065 ; Fries, ix, 60; A. et J. Kerner, 9, 19; 47, 98; Leefe, 1, 2 ; E. F. et W. R. Linton, 
1 ; Reichenbach, 1423 ; Hb. FI. Ingric., iv, 553. 
Small tree or large shrub, attaining a height of about 6 or 7 m., fragrant, glabrous. Young 
branches smooth, often shining as if varnished. Winter-buds blackish, narrowly ovate, shining. 
Stipules usually caducous. Petioles about 1 cm. long. Laminae broadly lanceolate to oblong-ovate, 
usually broadest a little above the middle, rounded at the base, acute to acuminate, about 5 — 10 cm. 
