CHAP. CIII.

xalica'ce.®. sa'lix.

1561

Synonyme. S. uliginosa Willd. Enum., 1007. {Smith and Koch) ; the trailing Sallow, so called inNorfolk. {Smith E. F.)

The Sexes. Both sexes are described in Eng. FI., and figured in Eng. Bot ., in Sal. Wob., and inHayne Abbild.

Engravings. Hoffm. Sal., 1.1. 4. f. 1., 2. t. 22. f. 1.; Smith Lin. FI. Lapp., t. 8. f. y; Hayne Abbild.,1.188.; Eng. Bot., 1.1487. ; Sal. Wob., No. 124. ; and our fig. 124. in p. 1626.

Spec. Char., fyc. Branches trailing. Leaves somewhat serrated, convex, obo-vate, obtuse, with a small hooked point; hairy, and reticulated with veins, onboth sides. Stipules roundish, convex, toothed. Ovary silky, stalked.Stigmas nearly sessile. ( Smith Eng. FI.) A native of England, in moistwoods and thickets; flowering in April and May. Stem bushy, usually 3 ft.or 4 ft. high. “ Branches spreading, or trailing, either amongst other bushes,or on the ground, to a great extent. Leaves various in size, on short, stout,downy footstalks, obovate, generally 1 in. or 2 in. long, more or less con-tracted towards the base, though sometimes rounded, or nearly ovate inthat part: their termination is often remarkably obtuse or abrupt, with abroad, short, recurved, hooked, or oblique point; both sides hairy, and veryrugged ; the upper side dark green, wrinkled like a cabbage leaf; under sidepaler, rather glaucous.” ( Smith Eng. FI.) “ The leaves occasionallyform permanent rosaceous tufts like those of S. He lix.” (Ibid.) Thereare male and female plants both at Woburn Abbey and in Messrs. Loddiges’sarboretum; and from the latter we have received a specimen of S. ambigua,which seems to be S. aurita.

Varieties. Koch and Smith have referred the S. uliginosa Willd. and S. auritaWilld. to the S. aurita E. ; and Koch has thus contradistinguished the twoformer : — S. uliginosa Willd. Taller. Leaves obovate. S. aurita Willd.Dwarfer. Leaves roundish obovate, smaller by half. Mr. Forbes has noticedthat a variety was growing in the Woburn plantations which was about 1 ft.or 1 ft. 6 in. high, and had its leaves truly obovate. Koch has deemed theS. cladosteinma Hayne Hendr. FI., p. 191. and fig. b, c, a singular variety ofS. aurita, and characterised it as having 2, 3, or 4 stamens to a flower, andthese with their filaments connate to beyond the middle. We have a spe-cimen obtained of Messrs. Loddiges, under the name of S. aurita micro-phylla, whose leaves are oblong, and do not look of the affinity of S. aurita.Smith judged (Flor. Brit, and Eng. FI.) the S. caprea pumila, folio subro-tundo, subtus incano, of Dillenius in Raii Syn., to be a dwarf variety of Saurita ; but Mr. Borrer has expressed, in Eng. Bot. Supp., t 2733., hisopinion that this “ is probably a synonyme of S. ambigua.”

as 96. S. latifo'lia Forbes. The broad-leaved Willow, or Sallow.

Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 118.

The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob.

Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 118. ; and fig. 118. in p. 1625.

Spec. Char., §c. Leaves broadly elliptic, distantly denticulated towards thebase, and finely serrated towards the point. Stigmas half-moon-shaped, ser-rated, glabrous, and large. Capsules ovate, silky, and footstalked. Bracteaovate, hairy. Style about the length of the stigmas. (Sal. Wob., p. 235.) Na-tive country not stated. Flowering in March. A straggling plant, with strong,round, pubescent branches, which are of a brown fuscous colour, and be-come nearly glabrous towards the lower end in autumn. Leaves of a largeelliptical form, a little heart-shaped and unequal at the base; above, greenand shining ; beneath, glaucous, downy, and reticulated; the margins re-motely denticulated, and nearly entire towards the base; finely serrated at theapex. Footstalks J in. long, and pubescent. Catkins nearly 1 in. long when atmaturity. A kind quite distinct from every other of this section, and re-markable for the breadth of its leaves, which differ in texture from those ofS. grisophylla, that are also broad. There are plants at Woburn, Henfield,and in the Goldworth Arboretum.

¥ 97. S. ca'prea L. The Goat Willow, or the great round-leaved Sallow.

Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1448. a {Smith ); Willd. Sp. PI, 4. p. 703., exclusively of the synonymeof FI. Dan. {Smith); Hayne Abbild., p. 249. j Smith Eng. Bot., 1 1488 .; Rees’s Cyclo., No. 126.;