blunt gland-tipped teeth; the leaves of strong shoots about
two inches in length, oblong (the sides partly parallel), almost
cordate at the base, and somewhat rugose from the deeply-
sunken veins ; those of small twigs often rather narrowed
towards the base, so as to be almost obovate, with a point:
small lower leaves bluntish. Stipules remarkably large,
sessile, acute, serrated, with glands on the edges, and a few
on the disk near the point of insertion. Catkins on short
hairy stalks, with 3 to 5 oblong, bluntish, serrated floral
leaves, about as long, in the earliest stage of flowering-, as
the catkin, which is then ovate and usually less than half an
inch in length, but gradually becomes cylindrical, and three
or four times as long. Flowers rather closely set. Calyx-
scale obovate or oblong, blunt, often emarginate, brown in
the upper half, with scattered, long, silky hairs, which form
a white fringe. Nectary single, interior, short, truncate.
Germen naked, wrinkled towards the apex; at first nearly
subulate, subsequently compressedly quadrangular, or ob-
soletely two-edged, bulging at the base, tapering upwards,
and again somewhat thickened immediately below the style;
its stalk hairy, at first very short, at length almost equalling
the calyx-scale. Style moderate, divided one-third or more
of its length, so as to form pedicels to the thickish, cloven,
and at length spreading stigmas. The flowers come forth
with the young leaves about the beginning of May.
This Willow is remarkable for the long, dark, shinin»-,
wavy leaves and large stipules of its strong shoots. It is
nearly allied to S. hirta, t. 1404, and still more nqarly, perhaps,
to S. stylaris of Seringe, JVlonogr. des Saules de la
Suisse, p. 62, which is regarded as 8. Amaniana of Willde-
now; but the specimens published by Seringe, Saules de la
Suisse, n. 21 and 86—S8, have a germen without wrinkles
and a longer style, and leaves, however various in outline,
all permanently glaucous beneath. If S. myrsinites of
Hoffmann belongs, as it probably does, to this $. stylaris, the
germen and style are badly represented in Hist. Sal. t. 18.
It is surely by error that Koch has placed S. petrcea under
his S. Arbuscula, with S. phylicifolia of Smith, and not
under his own 8. phylicifolia, with S. Amaniana and its
affinities.—W . B.