Salix Salix, Bertol. Salix Salix, Desf.

33. S. crataegifolia Bertol. View in CoL in Desv., Jour. Bot. Appi. 2: 76 (1813).

Procumbent or erect shrub up to 1 m. Twigs covered at first with long hairs, becoming glabrous, dark purple. Leaves 6-5-11-5 x 3-4-4 cm, elliptical, bright green above with silky hairs beneath, ultimately glabrous; lateral veins 8-12(-20) pairs. Female catkins 5(-1 2)x0’8-l cm; axis almost glabrous. Bracts reddish-brown, with long white silky hairs near apex. Ovary 5 mm, glabrous; pedicel short; style l-5(-2)m m. • N. Italy (Alpi Apuane, IMoncenisio).?Ga It.

34. S. pedicellata Desf. View in CoL , FI. Atl. 2: 362 (1799).

Tall shrub or tree up to 10 m. Decorticated wood with numerous prominent ridges. Young twigs grey-tomentose, older ones gradually glabrescent. Leaves oblong or obovate-lanceolate, dentate, crenate or nearly entire, thinly pubescent beneath, glabrescent above; lateral veins at least 10-12 pairs, connected by a fine reticulation, prominent beneath, impressed above. Stipules large, semi-cordate, dentate, deciduous . Bracts with short hairs. Catkins 3-6 x 1- 1-5 cm. Ovary glabrous; pedicel 3-4 mm; style short or moderately long. Mediterranean region. Co G r Hs It Sa Si?Tu. Plants similar in vegetative characters but with hairy ovary are probably of hybrid origin.

35. S. silesiaca Willd. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 4 (2): 660 (1806).

Shrub up to 3 m. Twigs slightly pubescent when young, or almost glabrous from the beginning. Decorticated wood sometimes with scattered ridges 5(—10) mm. Leaves oblanceolate, more or less broadly cuneate towards the base, almost glabrous and green on both surfaces or bluish-green beneath; reticulation prominent beneath; apex flat, triangular; margin serrate, crenate or nearly entire. Stipules reniform or semicordate, irregularly glandular-sinuate, more or less equalling the petiole. Catkins 1-5-3-5 x 0-5-1 cm; peduncles short. Bracts dark red-brown, bearded with long white hairs. Ovary glabrous; pedicel equalling the bract, later elongating slightly. Riversides and damp clearings. Sudety, Carpathians, Balkan peninsula. Bu Cz Ge Ju Po Rm Rs (W). Absent from the Alps; records from Steiermark are referable to S. appendiculata x caprea . Hybridizes freely with S. aurita , S. caprea and locally with 5. lapponum .