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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 
(In moist sandy places in several parts of Great Britain, especially in the 
north. E. Bot. Banks of the Darwent, near Ebchester, Durham. Mr. 
Thornhill. In Bridge Park, Sussex. Mr. Forster. Bot. Guide. E.) 
S. April. 
(38. S. cine'rea. Stem erect; lower leaves entire; inversely egg- 
spear-shaped, underneath reticulated with veins, glaucous, downy: 
stipulas half-heart-shaped, serrated: germen silky: its stalk 
half as long as the lanceolate leaves. 
E. Bot. 1897. 
Twenty or thirty feet high, if left to its natural growth; in hedges or 
thickets more dwarf and bushy. It is readily to be distinguished from 
the common willows by a rusty glittering hue, residing more perhaps in 
the fine veins, than in the pubescence sprinkled over them, which consists 
of minute, prominent, shining hairs. Branches smooth, reddish brown, 
crooked. Monoecious catkins have been observed on this species, which 
is one of the most useless of Sallows , a tribe known by their obovate, or 
rounded downy leaves, and thick, early, silky catkins; with prominent 
yellow, distinct stamens, two in each flower. Sm. Eng. FI. 
Grey Sallow- S. cinerea. Linn. In various parts of England. In moist 
woods. In a wood by the road side near Bromley, Kent. Mr. E. Forster. 
Cumberland, and Fream Wood. Lightfoot. Boxhill, and at Esher, 
Surry. Mr. J. Woods, jun. Between Bristol and the Severn. Sir 
J. E. Smith. Foot of Derwent-water. Mr. Winch. T. April. E.) 
39- S. auri'ta. (Branches trailing: leaves somewhat serrated, convex, 
obovate, obtuse, with a small hooked point; hairy and reticulated 
with veins, on both sides; stipulae roundish, convex, toothed : 
germen silky, stalked; stigmas nearly sessile. Sm. E.) 
TIoffm. Sal. i. 4, and i. 5. 3— -foliage i. 22 —(E. Bot. 1487. E.) 
A shrub, a few feet high; covered with a greyish smooth bark, not cracked. 
Branches numerous, spreading, smooth, tough, blackish brown. Barren 
Catkins, upright, egg-shaped, blunt, half an inch long or more, three or 
four lines broad. Fruit-stalk short Stamens two. Nectary single. 
Fertile Catkins upright or expanding, egg-oblong, or cylindrical, blunt, 
half to one inch long, and half as broad, on longer fruit-stalks. Leaves 
roundish, or inversely egg-shaped, very entire but sometimes waved at 
the edge; blunt, or with a short taper point at the end; dark green 
above, somewhat woolly; paler, cottony, and reticulated underneath. 
Leaf-stalk short, cylindrical, cottony. Stipules two at the base of each 
leaf-stalk, kidney-shaped, scolloped and toothed. Leaves when young 
soft, even, an inch long; when old, rigid, wrinkled, and two inches or 
more in length. Sometimes flowers in autumn as well as in spring. 
Hoffm. (The leaves occasionally form permanent rosaceous tufts, like 
those of S. helix. 
A very small-leaved var. has been observed ; and sometimes bears, as does 
S. cinerea occasionally,) catkins composed of pistils in their lower half, 
and stamens in the upper; above which, on one branch, are two entirely 
of barren florets. 
Bound-eared Sallow. Trailing Sallow: from the branches shooting 
horizontally among other bushes to a great extent. (Welsh: Helygen 
grynglustiawg. E.) S.capread Huds. Woods and hedges. Dry mountainous 
heaths; Frequent about Bungay. Mr* Woodward. (In Shropshire and 
