. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. GOAT WILLOW, OK LARGE-LEAVED SALLOW. 167. Balioo caprea. WILLOW, OR LARGE-LEAVED SALLOW. Salix caprea, Linn. sp. pi. 1448. •r Smiths Eng. Bot. 1488. Id. Eng. Flor. iv. p. in No. Br. Flor. p. 429. ed. Flor. Hibern part i. p. Arb. Brit. ch. ciii. p. 1561. The present species, in some districts known by thename of the Saugh, is distinguished from all the otherWillows by its large ovate, or sometimes orbicular ovateleaves, which are pointed, serrated, and waved on the
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. GOAT WILLOW, OK LARGE-LEAVED SALLOW. 167. Balioo caprea. WILLOW, OR LARGE-LEAVED SALLOW. Salix caprea, Linn. sp. pi. 1448. •r Smiths Eng. Bot. 1488. Id. Eng. Flor. iv. p. in No. Br. Flor. p. 429. ed. Flor. Hibern part i. p. Arb. Brit. ch. ciii. p. 1561. The present species, in some districts known by thename of the Saugh, is distinguished from all the otherWillows by its large ovate, or sometimes orbicular ovateleaves, which are pointed, serrated, and waved on the 1G8 margin, beneath they are of a pale glaucous colour, andclothed with down, butdark green above. The gstipules are crescent-shaped. The catkins areoval, very numerous, near-ly sessile, and are ex-panded much earlier thanthe foliage. The ovary isstalked, silky, and ovatein form ; the stigmas areundivided and nearly ses-sile. The Goat Willow or Saugh, though barely reaching,even under favourable circumstances, the dimensions of a
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