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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![EARED WILLOW smooth, except a slight puberulence at the tip, green touched with red or violet, passing to olive- or purple- brown. Buds rather large, 5—6 mm. long, the flower- buds especially so, 10—12 mm., keeled at the margins, convex, erect but not closely appressed, orange tawny to red. Long shoots often thick. S. aurita, L., the Eared Willow, is much like S. Caprea, but the twigs are shorter and more slender, and caducous pubescent at the tips. Buds less pointed and darker red- brown. Leaf-scar narrower. The twigs may have a grey bloom, but are otherwise brown, passing to greenish grey. The grey tomentose variety, cinerea, has been dealt with on p. 256. [Buchanan White has examined the sources of con- fusion between these three forms which he accepts as species, and pointed out that in S. aurita the twigs are more slender and glabrous, in S. cinerea more pubescent and stouter; in S. Caprea the one-year-old twigs and buds are normally glabrous. At the same time inter- mediate varieties and at least three hybrids render the characters very unreliable in detail, in the absence of leaves and flowers (see p. 256).]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2805717x_0001_0278.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
