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II.—Leaves smooth, quite entire. 
29. Salix reticulata, round-leaved or net-work willow. 
—Leaves quite entire, smooth, ovateobtuse.—Thisis ashrub, 
with the branches not much more than a finger’s length, and 
prostrate. Stipules none. Male catkin mostly terminating, 
rather woolly, an inch long; stamens two; nectary double. 
Female catkin terminating, cylindrical, rather longer than 
the male.—Native of high mountains in many parts of 
Europe. Northern counties of England, Wales and Scot¬ 
land: flowering in May. 
30. Salix myrtilloides, or bilberry-leaved willow.—Leaves 
entire, smooth, ovate acute.—A small shrub, scarcely a foot 
high, having the stature and appearance of Vaccinium uligi- 
nosurh. The upper branches are purplish or flesh-coloured. 
Stipules none. Germs pedicelled, smooth. Flowers yellow, 
from the same bud with the leaves. Fruit commonly pur¬ 
plish, with the base brown.—Native of Sweden and Iceland, 
Switzerland, the South of France, Ingria and Siberia. 
31. Salix integra.-—Leaves entire, smooth, linear, oblong 
obtuse.—Stems round, long, cinereous, smooth. Flowers 
from the same buds with the leaves.—Native of Japan. 
32. Salix glauca, or glaucous-leaved willow.—Leaves 
quite entire, very finely villose underneath, ovate-oblong.— 
This is a shrub from two to three feet in height. Stems red, 
smooth. Stipules none. Male catkin ovate, so woolly that 
none of the scales are visible. Peduncle leafy. Wool 
longer at the base of the petioles.—Native of the mountains 
of Lapland, the Alps and Pyrenees. 
33. Salix Caspica, or Caspian willow.—This is a slender 
shrub, often the height of a man, and seldom exceeding. 
Twigs slender, pliant, yellow, very smooth and shining. 
Leaves stiff, without stipules, very narrow and sharp, 
glaucous beneath. Female catkins below the leaves naked, 
scarcely longer than an inch, upright, with the scales not 
very close. In the slenderness of the twigs it almost emulates 
the weeping willow.—Native of Russia. 
III.—Leaves quite entire, villose. 
34. Salix aurita, or round-eared willow.—Leaves quite 
entire, villose on both sides, obovate appendicled.—This 
shrub grows up to be a small tree, about the height of a man. 
Bark grayish, smooth, entire. Branches numerous, spread¬ 
ing, smoofh, tough, blackish or brownish. Stipules (or 
auricles) two, at the base of each leaf-stalk, kidney-shaped 
scalloped and toothed. Male catkins upright, ovate; stamens 
two; nectary single. Female catkins, ovate-oblong or 
cylindrical. It sometimes flowers a second time in the 
autumn.'—Native of Europe, particularly the northern parts, 
in woods and marshes: flowering in May. 
35. Salix lanata, or woolly-leaved willow.—The branches 
are covered all over with a white pubescence. Leaves sub- 
ovate or roundish, entire, downy with a long and loose 
wool, especially when young, so close that the veins are 
not visible. Stipules none. Two catkins generally come 
out at the ends of the twigs of the foregoing year; and the 
capsules are smooth. 
This is a dwarf tree, a span high, from a trunk scarcely 
as thick as the human finger, branching very much and 
diffused: branches sub-fastigiate, with a brown bark; the 
extreme ones covered with a silky down.—Native of the 
mountains of Lapland, &c. 
36. Salix lapponicum, or Lapland willow.—Thisapproach- 
es so near to Salix arenaria, that perhaps it is only a variety; 
differing from it in having the upper surface of the leaves 
more villose, the leaves themselves longer and waved.— 
Native of Lapland, where it abounds in all the valleys of 
the high mountains. 
37. Salix arenaria, or sand willow.—Leaves entire, ovate 
acute, sub-villose above, tomentose underneath.—A shrub the 
height of a man, Stems upright, little branched, cinereous 
or red. Catkins both male and female ovate, very frequent 
from the leaf-buds.—Native of Scotland, on the sea shores, 
among blowing sand. 
38. Salix incubacea, or trailing willow.—Leaves quite 
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entire, lanceolate, underneath villose, shining; stipules ovate, 
acute.-—Native of Sweden. 
39. Salix repens, or creeping dwarf willow..—Leaves quite 
entire, lanceolate, somewhat downy on both sides; stem 
decumbent, creeping; style simple, stigma in four nearly 
equal segments; capsules smooth.—The true creeping wil¬ 
low has a very strong woody root, dark brown or black, 
throwing out many prostrate or widely spreading stems, of 
which the flowering branches are generally erect.—Native of 
many parts of Europe. 
40. Salix fusca, or brown dwarf willow.—This is a very 
low shrub, for the most part procumbent, and creeping. 
Leaves very small, alternate, blunt, smooth and dark green 
above, beneath glaucous with a few silky-white hairs. Bud 
one-valved, two-parted. Flowers peduncled, at the end of 
the branchlets of the year preceding; they are very 
many, with brown scales, and yellow filaments and anthers. 
The catkins have no leaves, and commonly turn black.— 
Native of several parts of Europe. In Britain, by Landown 
castle, between Southampton and Winchester, between 
Kilnsay and Arncliff, in Yorkshire, and in Scotland. 
41. Salix rosmarinifolia, or rosemary-leaved willow.— 
Leaves linear, acute, beneath shining, silky, villose. Sti¬ 
pules none.—Native of Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, &c. 
42. Salix Gmelini, or Gmelin’s willow.—Leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate entire, silky underneath.—Stipules none on adult 
plants. Catkins among the leaf-buds, sessile, naked : males 
an inch long.—Native of Dauria. 
43. Salix serotina, or late willow.—Leaves oblong acute, 
quite entire silky, stipules lanceolate deciduous.—This 
shrub the height of a fathom in the water, but in a drier 
situation it becomes a tree, with a trunk the size of the 
human arm. Shoots thick, rather brittle, stiff and upright, 
of a greenish gray colour. Catkins from the lateral buds, 
on a peduncle with a few small leaves on it: males an inch 
and half long, hirsute, with close scales, and very long 
stamens; females shorter.—Native of Russia. 
44. Salix Arctica, or Arctic willow.—Leaves quite entire, 
obovate-rounded, villose underneath.—This is a small tree, 
almost like Salix fusca, with a trunk the thickness of a swan’s 
quill, lying on the ground, with a few thickish straddling 
branches a finger’s length, quite from the bottom, the bark 
of which is of a yellowish bay colour. Stipules none. It 
grows within the Arctic Circle, by the Icy Sea. 
IV.—Leaves sub-serrate, villose, 
45. Salix Sibirica, or Siberian willow.—Leaves ovate, 
lanceolate subserrate tomentose stiffish, stipules ovate some¬ 
what toothed.—Twigs yellow, straight, branched, rodlike; 
the younger ones hoary with nap, frequently all over. On 
the banks of rivers it grows like a tree a fathom high or 
more, with very smooth leaves and very branching twigs 
of a full yellow and as it were polished.—Native of the 
farther Siberia by the sub-alpine streams of the Jenisea. 
46. Salix caprea, or round-leaved sallow.—Leaves ovate, 
wrinkled, tomentose underneath, waved, toothletted above.— 
This not unfrequently becomes a large tree. Branches 
when young palish, downy. The lower buds produce leaves, 
the upper ones catkins, not leafy. Bark ash-coloured, cracks 
very fine. The bark is used in dyeing leather by the Lap¬ 
landers ; and the best gloves are prepared with it in Scania. 
The wood is soft, light and flexible, fit for several uses of 
the turner. 
47. Salix acuminata, or long-leaved sallow.—Leaves 
ovate-oblong tomentose underneath, the upper ones entire, 
the lower crenate.—This is a shrub six feet high, often re¬ 
sembling a small free; bark smooth, ash-coloured; branches 
numerous, upright but diffused. Stipules kidney-shaped, 
waved and toothed at the edge, seldom found on the upper 
leaves. Male catkins ovate or ovate oblong. Female cat¬ 
kins the size and shape of the other, but on longer peduncles. 
—Native of several parts of Europe, flowering in March and 
April: the capsules ripen in May. 
48. Salix pedicellata, or stalk-capsuled sallow.—Leaves 
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