DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 173 



2 inches long when fully grown. Germen awl-shaped, downy, 

 on a short, thick, likewise downy, stalk. Style smooth, longer 

 than the stigmas, permanent like them. Caps, ovate-lanceolate, 

 silky, of 2 recurved, light-brown valves. Seed obovate, polished, 

 with a copious woolly crown. 

 The young buds are tipped with a small tuft of deciduous down, 

 as remarked by Linneeus, who in his Fl. Lapp, justly distin- 

 guished this \\'iliow from his phylicifolia. It ought rather per- 

 haps to be placed near S. Forsteriana, n. .^)7, and its allies, the 

 leaves being seldom perfectly smooth on both sides. Tiie sup- 

 posed fertile plant, indicated in the Linntean Transactions, is, 

 at best, very doubtful, and I have not adverted to it in the above 

 description. S. nigricans is of no known economical use. 

 AMiatever Wahlcnberg may intend under this name, t. 1053 of 

 FL Dan., cannot be our plant,, for which Engl. Bot. is the ori- 

 ginal authority. 



7. S. jj/if/lici/olia. Tea-leaved Willow. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, with wavy serraturcs, very smooth ; 

 ii'laiicous beneath. Stipnlas i^lanchilar on the inside. 

 Germen lanceolate, stalked, silky. Style twice the length 



of the stiirmas. Branches trailing;. 



S. phylicifolia. Linn. Sp. PL 1442, a FL Lapp. n. 351. t.S. f. d. 

 Willd.v.A.(S:>9. Fl.Br.\0\^. Engl. Bot. v. 2S. t. \9dS. fr. of 

 L. Soc.v.6. 123. IVahlenb. Lapp. 270. t. \7.f. 2 ? 



S. radicans. FL Br. 1053. JFilld. v. 4, 070. Hook. Scot. 280. 



In the Highlands of Scotland, 



At Finlarig, lireadalbane. Rev. Dr. Stuart, iti LighffooLs IJcrba- 

 riutn. 



Shrub. May. 



A low, s))reading, smooth bush, whose long, recumbent, brown 

 or purplish, branches take root as they extend in every direc- 

 tion. Leaves on shortish stalks, not much spreading, about 2 

 inches long, not 1 broad ; very acute at the point ; not at all 

 rounded at the base ; smooth at all times, except an obscure 

 downiness on the mid-rib above ; harsh to the touch, bitter, 

 variously crenate or serrated, the serratures peculiarlv, and 

 sometimes very remarkably, undidated ; the up])er side of a dark 

 shining green ; under glaucous. Stipulas half-ovate, inclining 

 to lunate, small, glandular at the inside towards the base, (.'at- 

 kins from small lateral branches, acc()m})anied by 2 or 3 small 

 bractcas rather than leaves, terminal, solitary j the fertile ones, 

 which alone I have seen, all over hoary, with fine dense silky 

 hairs. Scales linear-oblong, obtuse. Nectary single, abrupt. 

 (iirmen lanceolate, or almost awl-shaped, on a stalk about a 

 third its own length, aiul half as long as the scale. N/ >//<-• smooth, 

 except at the base, about as long as the notched, spreading, 



