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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 
with blunts short, black, hairy scales. Nectary short, obtuse. Germen 
on a short stalk, spear, or egg-shaped, downy, with a considerable style, 
and a pair of spreading, cloven, obtuse stigmas. Capsules spear-shaped, 
downy. FI. Brit. 
Quince-leaved Sallow. In the north; also in Norfolk. Banks of 
Esk, near Forfar. Mr. G. Don. Hook. Scot. E.) S. April. E.) 
43. S. lana'ta. (Leaves roundish-ovate, pointed, shaggy on both sides, 
glaucous beneath: germen sessile, oblong, smooth: style four 
times as long as the blunt, divided stigmas. 
Leaves only, FI. Lapp. 7. 7, and 8. x — FI. Dan. 245 and 1057. 
Stem three or four feet high, with numerous thick distorted branches, downy 
when young. Leaves broader than those of any other British willow, 
except S. caprea, on shortish stout foot-stallcs, elliptical or roundish, with 
a short oblique point, entire, though somewhat wavy, from one and 
a half to two and a half inches long; occasionally heart-shaped at the 
base; sometimes more obovate, inclining to lanceolate, and the earlier 
Ones much smaller; all of a hoary, or grey aspect; being covered, more 
or less completely, with long, soft, silky, shaggy hairs, especially the 
upper surface; the under is more glaucous, beautifully reticulated with 
veins. Stipules ovate, acute, hairy, veiny. Catkins terminal, large, very 
handsome, bright yellow. 
Woolly Broad-leaved Willow. S. lanata. Linn. Willd. Wahl. 
Sm. S. caprea, and S. chrysanthos. Oed. Found by Mr. T. Drummond 
on rocks among the Clova Mountains. S. Sm. Eng. FI. E.)* 
44. S. capre'a. Leaves egg-shaped, wrinkled, cottony underneath, 
waved, toothed towards the end: (capsules swelling, E.) 
Hoffm. Sal. i. 3. 5. 4. Foliage of the different varieties, i. 21. 1— E. Bot. 
1488— Ger. 1203. 3— Ger. Em. 1390. 3^— Park. 1432. 1. 
No other species of Salix requires so dry a soil. It sometimes becomes a 
moderate-sized tree. Bark ash coloured, cracks very fine. Barren 
Catkins egg-oblong, one to two inches long, often one inch broad, on 
short fruit-stalks, which are woolly, furnished with eight to twelve 
leafits, in a double or triple series; the upper catkins flowering first. 
Stamens two. Nectary one. Fertile Catkins oblong or cylindrical, one 
to two inches or more in length, half an inch broad, on fruit-stalks 
which have six or seven leafits. Leaves roundish, egg-shaped, in¬ 
versely-egg-shaped, or egg-oblong, four to five inches long, about three 
broad, either smooth or downy above, dark green; blueish grey, and 
cottony on the back, and marked with a network of veins. Stipules only 
to the uppermost leaves, roundish, finely scolloped. Gleditsch found on 
this species both barren and fertile flowers, and others that were perfect. 
Hoffm. Its copious yellow blossoms enliven the landscape in early 
spring. Much larger than S. aquatica. E. Bot. E.) 
(Great Round-leaved Sallow. Scotch: Saugh . Gaelic: Seileach. 
Welsh: Helygen grynddail fwyaf. E.) Common in hedges and 
thickets. 
Both kinds of this willow grow at Blymhill, Shropshire. It blossoms the 
* A most beautiful Willow, which according to Wahlenberg, yields more honey than 
any other, insomuch that the calkins are sweet to the taste, and are much frequented by 
bees, E.) 
