196 . DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



Shrub. May, June. 



A sturdy, upright, bushy shrub, 1 to 2 feet high, with abundance 

 of short, leafy, dark-purplish branches, hairy when young, not 

 downy. Leaves very different from all the foregoing species, 

 except S. malifoUa, in their rigid thin, crackling, veiny texture, 

 without any thing glaucous or cottony about them, the fine hairs 

 on the younger ones being scattered and silky. Both sides are 

 of the same g^reyish green, and both alike veiny, with fine, pro- 

 minent, reticulated veins, meeting at right angles. The shape 

 is either elliptical, in some degree approaching to orbicular j or 

 in the variety (B obovate-lanceolate ; all slightly pointed ; the 

 length about an inch or rather more -, the margin finely, but 

 sharply and distinctly, serrated. Footstalks short, thick, smooth. 

 Stipulas unequally ovate, strongly toothed, smooth, variable in 

 size. Catkins solitary, terminal, cylindrical, thick and obtuse, 

 hoary with the abundant long hairs of the brown, elliptic-oblong, 

 notched scales. Nect. obtuse, notched. Stam. 2, twice the length 

 of their scale. Germ, stalked, awl-shaped, downy, tapering into 

 a smooth short stijle. Stigmas thick, distant, deeply divided. 

 Caps, brown, tapering, downy, especially towards the bottom. 



The leaves frequently remain, withered and bleached, through the 

 winter. They are so unlike those of other small Willows, at 

 least of all the preceding, in being of the same shining green on 

 both sides, that the species cannot be mistaken. Their shape, 

 though different in the two extremes, may clearly be traced from 

 one variety to the other. 



31. S. Dicksoniana. Broad-leaved Mountain Willow. 



Leaves elliptical, acute, slightly toothed, smooth ; glau- 

 cous beneath. Young branches very smooth. Catkins 

 ovate, short, erect. Germen stalked, ovate, silky. Stig- 

 mas nearly sessile. 



S. Dicksoniana. Engl. Bot. v. 20. 1. 1 390. Rees's Cycl. n. 60. Willd. 

 Sp. PL V. 4. G96. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. t?. 5. 362. 



S. myrtilloides. Ft. Br. 1056 -, but not of Linnecus. 



In the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. Dickson. 



Received from Scotland by Mr. Winch. 



Shrub. April. 



Stem upright, about a foot high, perfectly smooth, like every part 

 of the herbage, even the youngest /eares and branches; the latter 

 are round, erect, green the first year, afterwards brown. Leaves 

 an inch or inch and half long, elliptical, with a small broadish 

 point, flat, with very shallow tooth-like serratures ; the upper 

 surface bright green, even ; under glaucous, finely veined. Foot- 

 stalks short, and rather stout. Stipulas half-ovate, very minute, 

 and often wanting. Catkins before the foliage, almost sessile, 

 each accompanied by 2 or 3 oblong-lanceolate Jlora I- leaves. 



