206 DWARF AND RETICULATE WILLOWS 



Salix herbacea, L. Dwarf Willow. The smallest woody 

 plant of the British Flora : prostrate and creeping. Leaves 

 oval or sub-orbicular, glabrous, shining on both sides, re- 

 ticulate. 



Catkins very small and few (2 12), flowered, ovoid or 

 sub-globose, sub-terminal, on short pubescent stalks with 

 about two basal leaves; the </ about 4 8x4 6mm., 

 the $ about 10 x 5 mm. Glands two. Scales ciliate or 

 glabrescent. Yellowish-green, discolor or nearly concolor. 

 Stamens 2, free, glabrous. Ovary ovoid-conic, sub-sessile ; 

 style short, stigma bifid. Capsule relatively large, glabrous. 



Nectary disc-like and slit, urceolate. 

 Scales velvety, rosy-purplish or brown, 

 ciliate; ovary sessile, tomentose. 



Salix reticulata, L. Reticulate Willow. Catkins 

 flowering late, terminal on long naked stalks, ending the 

 sparsely foliaged shoots. 



Each catkin slender cylindric, loose-flowered, the 

 ff about 12 x 0'5 cm., the $ about 0'8 2 x 0'5 cm. 

 Glands forming a slit disc, or bifid. Scales rounded and 

 rosy to purplish, passing to rusty-brown, smooth dorsally, 

 villous inside and ciliate. Rachis and purple stalk with 

 scattered long hairs. Stamens 2, free, glabrous, with 

 reddish-violet anthers. Ovary sessile, ovoid, obtuse, white- 

 tomentose; style short, often split; stigmas short, thick, 

 purple-red and often bifid. Capsule pubescent, purple. 



O O Scales discolor, green or pale at the base, 

 and purple, brown to black at the tips; 

 velvety, silky or tomentose. Ovary more or 

 less hairy ; style at least half its length. 

 One nectary only in both and $ flower. 



Ovary pedicellate. 



$ Ovary glabrescent, pedicel short; style 



