Volume 1
Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory / by H. Marshall Ward.
- Wellcome Trust
- Date:
- 1904-09
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory / by H. Marshall Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![S. Caprea, var. cinerea, Grey Willow (Fig. 135). A variety or sub-species of the group S. Caprea and S. aurita, the hoary shoots inclining to dark fuscous, rather robust, with shallow rills at the tips, and soft to the touch owing to the dense grey tomentum on buds and tips, passing to smooth. Intermediate between S. Caprea and S. aurita, and with similarly shaped and disposed buds. The twigs are, however, thinner and more branched, and the buds smaller and more nodulose. ZZ Buds and twigs glabrous, though the tips of the shoots may be slightly pubescent. > Buds and twigs polished broum, as if varnished, and quite glabrous. S. pentandra, L. Bay Willow. Buds erect, more or less appressed, ovoid, the upper larger than those to- wards the base of the shoot, and reminiscent of S. Caprea; bud-scales polished brown, or the base greenish. Colour of twigs passing into green. [$. pentandra, L., is said by Bentham to have green or yellow twigs. Its upper buds are reminiscent of S. Caprea, but they are browner. It presents difficulties also with S. triandra, the twigs of which tend to be more angular above, and the buds to be more pubescent. Buchanan White has indicated some confusion between this plant and S. fragilis, L., and it may be doubted whether the points of difference furnished by the polished brown twigs can be relied on.] > > Buds red, or tawny yellow with reddish flecks, convex. S. Caprea, L. Sallow (Fig. 136). Twigs nodose with projecting leaf-bases, and leaf-scars large for a willow ;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2805717x_0001_0276.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
