DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 
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Wales it abounds. E. Bot. Hedges between Rugby and Dun church. 
In hedges near Alcester. Burton. Very common about Blymhill, Salop. 
Rev. S. Dickenson. E.) S. May—June.* 
40. S. AQUAThcA. Leaves slightly serrated, oblong-egg-shaped, flat, 
somewhat woolly underneath, (stipulas rounded, toothed. E. Bot. 
E. Bot. 1437. 
Stem generally bushy, rarely forming a tree. Catkins cylindrical, with 
small brown tipped hairy scales, and an oblong nectary to each. Cap¬ 
sules tapering, downy on longish stalks. Stigmas entire. Style very 
short. Leaves vary in shape and size, but are more or less inversely-egg- 
shaped, downy and veiny; thin, soft and pliable ; flat, and not crisped or 
waved, in which latter particulars they differ greatly from those of 
S. cinerea and aurata. E. Bot. 
Water, Sallow. Welsh: Dyfr Hclygen. S. aquatica. Sm. Willd. S. ca- 
prea. Huds. Lightf. &c. S. cinerea. With. Ed. 4. Relh. Hull, but 
neither S. cinerea nor S. $aprea of Linn. Sm. E.) This is perhaps the 
most common of all our Willows. In moist hedge-rows and in woods. 
S. April, t 
(41. S. oleifo'lia. Leaves invejsely-egg-spear-shaped, flat, minutely 
indented, acute, underneath glaucous and hairy: leaf-scales 
small, notched. 
E. Bot. 1402. 
Four to ten feet high. Branches slender, clothed with fine short down. 
Leaves rather spreading, straight, somewhat rigid, tapering from the 
middle to the base, finely downy above, hairy, with reticulated veins 
beneath, where they often assume a rusty hue. Foot-stalks downy. 
Flower-buds very large, downy, brown. Barren Catkins shortish, very 
thick, with a brown, hairy scale, a blunt nectary, and two distinct, long, 
golden stamens to each flower. E. Bot. 
Sir J. E. Smith states, that Mr. Borrer communicated a specimen of 
extraordinary transmutation, observed by him for successive years, in 
which several of the upper catkins gradually change their nature. 
Olive-leaved Sallow. (Welsh: Helygen oliwydd-ddail. E.) Hedges 
and coppices. In various parts of Norfolk; and common in Essex. 
First glen east of Hastings. Mr. J. Woods, jun. Bot. Guide. (Common 
near Beaumaris. Welsh Bot. E.) S. March. E.) 
(42. S. cotinifo'lia. Leaves elliptical, almost circular, slightly 
toothed, downy, and marked with rectangular veins beneath : 
stigmas cloven. 
E. Bot. 1403. 
Remarkable for its round leaves much resembling those of a quince tree. 
Specimens from the north only two feet high, those from Norfolk three or 
four times that height. Branches spreading, clothed with fine but not 
thick-set down. Leaves spreading, thick and firm, on thick hairy stalks. 
Fertile Catkins about half an inch long when in blossom, egg-shaped. 
* The shoots are slender, and tolerably flexible. 
t The bark has been manufactured into coarse paper and pasteboard. The wood is 
excellent for fuel, as also for stakes and hurdles, (and gieatly esteemed for waggon 
staves. E.) 
