CREEPING WILLOW, ETC. 207 



Salix Myrsimtes, L. Whortle Willow. An alpine 

 scrubby willow, only on Scotch and Irish mountains. 



Catkins with the foliage, apparently terminal on a 

 leafy stalk, about 1/2 2 x 0*8 1 cm., densely covered 

 with white hairs. Scales long or spathulate, black-purple, 

 with dense white hairs. Stamens 2, free, glabrous, yellow 

 with globoid purple anthers. Ovary shortly pedicellate, 

 elongated, reddish or claret-coloured, white pubescent or 

 tomentose ; style split, purple-red, and stigmas divided. 



$ Jf Ovary hairy ; pedicel long, style short. 



Salix repens, L. Creeping Willow. Small, usually 

 prostrate, and very variable in foliage and colouring. 



Catkins with or just before the foliage, lateral, sessile 

 or nearly so with bracts, but not leaves, as the basal scales, 

 ovate or oblong ; the </ about 6 16 x 6 12 mm., the $ 

 about 5 12 x 5 8 mm., becoming loose and sub-globose 

 in fruit. Gland 1 only. Scales ligulate or obovate, varying 

 in colour from yellow or red at the base and black at the 

 tips, to purplish or brown, covered with dense long or 

 velvety hairs. 



Stamens 2, free, with long glabrous filament, and ovoid 

 anther yellow passing to blackish. Ovary pedicellate, 

 conoid, silky pubescent to grey-tomentose or glabrous ; 

 style usually very short; stigmas yellow, rosy or purple, 

 entire or split and diverging or not. Capsule pubescent 

 or tomentose, rarely glabrous, on a stalk at most three and 

 a half times as long as the gland. 



Ocary sessile or sub-sessile. 



Jf Catkins sweet-scented on flowering. 

 Anthers violet. Nectary -gland of the 

 9 flower long and thin, and may 

 reach half-way up the sessile ovary. 



