Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . Fig. 43. Guelder Rose, Viburnum Ojntlus, p. 177 (D). (i) Leaves lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate,at least 4—5 times as long as broadstipules half-ovate, but rarely seen. Salix purpurea, L. Purple Willow (Fig. 44). Shrubwith sub-opposite leaves. Leaves thin, about 9—11(9—18) cm. long, oblong-obovate to obovate-lanceolate,or oblong to nearly linear lanceolate; sub-sessile andoften opposite, 4—6 times as long as broad, the greatest PURPLE WILLOW 179 breadth usually about the upper third. Suddenly andshortly acuminate. Entir
Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . Fig. 43. Guelder Rose, Viburnum Ojntlus, p. 177 (D). (i) Leaves lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate,at least 4—5 times as long as broadstipules half-ovate, but rarely seen. Salix purpurea, L. Purple Willow (Fig. 44). Shrubwith sub-opposite leaves. Leaves thin, about 9—11(9—18) cm. long, oblong-obovate to obovate-lanceolate,or oblong to nearly linear lanceolate; sub-sessile andoften opposite, 4—6 times as long as broad, the greatest PURPLE WILLOW 179 breadth usually about the upper third. Suddenly andshortly acuminate. Entire at the base; serratulate alongthe upper two-thirds, teeth non-glandular, unequally. Fig. 44. Purple Willow, Salix purpurea, p. 178 (Sc). distant. Plane, glabrous, or thick and tough and with afew scattered silky caducous hairs ; shining green above,glaucous and with bluish bloom beneath. Shortly petio-late; stipules often absent, half-ovate. Leaves slightly 12—2 180 SPINDLE TREE pubescent when young; black on drying. See p. leaves brown to black. Venation like that of S. alba, pinnate-reticulate, butthe secondaries much finer and closer. Stomata on bothsurfaces; those above isolated or numerous. [For the hybrid S. rubra see p. 245.] (ii) Leaves ovate or oblong lanceolate, abouttwice as long as broad : stipules minute andvery caducous. Euonymus europceus, L. Spindle Tree (Fig. 45).Glabrous shrub, with foetid odour and angular shoots andtwigs; the stipules so minute and caducous as to be easilyoverlooked. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3—12 x 1*5—4 cm.,elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, or ovate; acuteor acuminate, finely serratulate, glabrous an
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