Jome BrifiJJj Species of Salix. lai 



Salix phylicifolia ^. Ljnn, Sp. PI. 1442. Fl. Lapp, ed, 2, 291. t, 8. 

 /. c. «. 350. 



In falicetis Fl. Aprili. 



At Wrongay fen, Norfolk, atid in ofier grounds in other places 

 not uncommon. , Mr. Crowe, 



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No writer except Linnsus appear to have known. Willow, this 

 but he furely has erred in making it a variety of his phyliclfolia^ from 

 which it differs in the much greater fize of all its parts, as well asili 

 the totally different form of its ferratures, a part fo peculiarly cha- 

 radleriftic in the phyl'icifolia. 



This fpecies I have named nigricans from the dark colour of its 

 branches, as well as its black hue when dried, which laft indeed is 

 not abfolutely peculiar to it. The trunk fcarcely riles to the height 

 or form of a tree. The branches are upright, round, rather brittle, 

 fmooth. Leaves 2 or 3 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, a 

 little rounded at the bafe, crenate in almoft every part, but more 

 flightly in the female plant; dark-green and very fmooth above ; 

 glaucous, veiny, rarely a little hairy beneath. Foot-flalks very 

 bf'oad at their bafe. Stipulai (if prefcnt) rather large, obliquely 

 heart- iliaped, ferrated, fmooth. Catkins from an inch to an inch 

 and half long, thickiili, with obovate, brown, hairy fcales. Stamina 

 2, diftincl, more or lefs hairy about their bafe. Style fnort, fmooth. 

 Stigmas thick, ovMtc, united at their bafe, permanent, undivided. 

 Capfules on footftalks, long and tapering, clothed with white filky 

 down, as are the general and partial flalks. 



The leaves in the female plant arc lliorter, and lefs crenate, r.s 



well as more tapering towards the bafe. Such differences between 



the two lexcs of Willows nrc rare, but I can hardly conceive thefe 



to be different fpecies, as they agree in every part befides. 



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