DIOECIA-DIANDRIA. Salix. 207 



lanceolate, silky ; its silky stalk nearly equal to the linear- 

 oblong scale. Style not longer than the stigmas. 



S. argentea. Fl. Br. \059. Engl Bot.vAO. L\36A. Bees' s Cycl. 



n.9S. Mllld. Sp. PL V. 4. 693. 

 S. repens y. Hiids. 429 ; but not 7i. 1 G43 ofHaller. 

 S. arenaria. Light/. 604. Huds. ed. 1 . 3G4. 

 S. lanata. Both Germ. v. \ .4\S.v.2.p.2. 5\3 ; according to If 'ill- 



denow. 

 S. pumila, foliis utrinque candicantibus et lanuginosis. Dill, in 



Baii Sijn. 447. t. 1 9./. 3 ; but not of C. Bauhin. 



On the sea shore, among loose blowing sand-banks. 



By Sandown castle, Kent. /. Sherard. Laugharn, South Wales. 

 Mr. Hurlock. In various other places. 



Shrub. Matj. 



Stems mostly spreading, but if sheltered erect, 4 or 5 feet high, 

 with numerous, upright, leafy branches, beautifully downy oi 

 silky. Leaves on short, stout, downy footstalks, scattered, an 

 inch, or often less, in length, and half as much in breadth, 

 truly elliptical, with a small curved point; the margin entire, 

 slightly revolute ; the upper side of a dull green ; at first silky, 

 then downy, finally naked, reticulated with small veins ^ under 

 covered at' all times with the most brilliant, silvery, satin-like, 

 close, silky hairs, very soft, almost concealing the strong mid- 

 rib and transverse veins. Stipulas ovate, entire, flat, silky, 

 more or less stalked, variable in size. Calkins before the leaves, 

 lateral, at first sessile, afterwards elevated on small bracteated 

 stalks, cylindrical, thick, obtuse, an inch long. Scales narrow- 

 obovate, rounded at the end, bearded, their upper half black 3 

 those of the barren catkins almost linear. Stam. 2, smootli, 

 about the length of the scale. Ncct. a small, obtuse, oblong 

 gland, like that oi' the fcrtile^ore^*-, whose scale is broader than 

 the barren one. Germ, on a silky stalk nearly as long as the 

 scale, lanceolate, densely woolly, or silky, tumid at the base. 

 Style at first short ; subsequently equal to the stigmas, wliich 

 are cloven and blunt. Caj)sult's becoming smoother as they 

 ripen. The length of their i)artial stalks ajipears variable. 



With the present s|)ecies we enter on a pecidiar tribe of Salices, 

 natives either of \n\rc sand, or of heathy elevated situations, 

 Hudson unites them all under his repens, along with a most 

 distinct one, the rosmarinifolia, whose leaves arc linear. The 

 rest have elliptical foliage, mostly entire, peculiarly silky under- 

 neatli. They are of humi^le stature, more or less recumbent, and 

 often malted, or entangled, in their growth. Though the s|)ecies 

 of this tril)e may be ditficult to define, like those of the whole 

 genus Bosa, which my learned friend (ierard, in his I'lora Gol- 

 loprovincialis, reduced all into one ; yet a patient incjuirer will 



