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AMENTACE^. - [Salix, 



specimens. The amenta are 3-4 inches long, and nearly J of an inch in diameter, most beautifully clothed 

 with long, jellowish-wliite, silky hairs, beyond which the very long slender brown styles, equal in length 

 with the ovary, are protruded.— There is another Willow, also gathered at Fort Franklin by Dr Richardson, 

 with the habit of the present ; but the stems are less silky, the i/oung leaves (there are no adult ones)almost 

 glabrous, and not in the least woolly even beneath, the catkins equally silky and beautiful whh the present, 

 though shorter, and the styles equally long ; but the ovary is quite glabrous.— This and the two following, 

 which Dr Barratt is inclined to refer to his § Prostrate, I bring, on account of their affinity with *S. Candida 

 and S. Hookeriana, to this section. 



7. S. Barrattiana; ramis subrobustis flexuosis cicatricatis, foliis obovato-oblongis 

 acutis basi cordatis mollibus glanduloso-serrulatis utrinque (subtus praecipue) pubescenti- 

 sericeis junioribus argenteo-sericeis, stipulis semlovatis glabriusculis glanduloso-serratis 

 petiolo longioribus, amentis cylindraceis masc, ovali-oblongis, fmm. elongatis densifloris 

 pukberrime sericeis, squamis nigrescentibus ovarium subeequantibus longe sericeis, 

 ovariis lanceolatis brevi-stipitatis sericeis stylo longioribus, stigmatis lobis fissis. (Tab. 

 CLXXXI.) S. Helvetica? Barratt, mst. 



"Hab. Alpine swamps in the Rocky Mountains. Dmmmond.—A species equal in beauty to, but not 

 excelled by, the S. speciosa and 8, lanata, which latter it resembles in many respects. It forms a dwarf 

 ahrub, with rather tortuous, stout, and nearly glabrous branches, clothed with dark-brown bark, and marked 

 with the scars of former years' leaves. Leaves 2-3 inches long, blunt and cordate at the base, and, amongst 

 the silky clothing, the margin will l)e found to be minutely serrated, and the serratures glandular (especially 

 near the base) as are those of the stipules more distinctly ; from these glands proceed a powerful balsamic 

 smell. Male catkins 2 inches long, splendidly silky. Stamens 2. Female catkins 4 inches long, flexuose, 

 very silky.— I name this species in compliment to Dr Barratt. of Middletown, Pennsylvania, who has devoted 

 the same attention to the Willows of N. America, that Mr Borrcr, and the late Mr Crow^e, and Mr Ander- 

 son, have done to those of Britain, and who kindly undertook the task of looking over the whole of the 

 collection here described, and referred them to his own mst. section of the " Salices American^'' I only 

 regret that I could not induce him to undertake the descriptions of them likewise. But I have profited by 

 many of his observations that have been liberally communicated to me. 



Tab. CLXXXI. A. Branch of a male plant ; /. 1, Scale and stamens from the amentum. B. Branch of 

 a female plant ; /. 2, Scale and pistil from the amentum ; / 3, Base of a leaf and stipules ',—Ji(js. 1—3 

 magnified, 



8. S. adenopJiylla; ramis brevibus subrobustis lanatis, foliis ovatis basi cordatis acutis 

 subcoriaceis fere omnino sessilibus reticulatim venosis argute serratis serraturis elongatis 

 glanduliferis lana sericea dense obsitis demum setate nudiusculis, stipulis ovato-cordatis 

 grosse glanduloso-serratis, amentis fcemineis elongatis pedunculatis, capsulis ovatis 

 acuminatis glaberrimis, stylo elongato, stigmatis lobis fissis. 



Hab. Labrador. Br Morriso7u — I know no species like this, well marked as it is by the copious long 

 narrow serratures to the leaves tipped with a gland, so that the leaf looks as if it were fringed with pedicel- 

 lated glands. These leaves are an inch or more long, clothed, even when fully grown, with long silky 

 tomentum on both sides, but which is deciduous on the oldest leaves. Mr Borrcr hints at its probable 

 affinity with S, fcetida, De Candolle Fl. Fr., but that is now referred by its author **and Duby, in the 

 FL Gallica,'' to S. vacciniifolia of Sm., with which this has little in common. The catkins are old, but 

 the capsules retain the form of the ovary, and are perfectly glabrous. 



