214 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



and thick, undivided ; finally perhaps cloven. I have not seen 

 the ripe capsules, nor the barren catkins. 

 In its form of growth^ shape of the leaves and catkins, as well as 

 in the size and particular structure of the latter, this species 

 comes nearest perhaps to 5. purpurea, n.2] ; but the catkins are 

 shorter and stouter, having about half as many Jlorets, and the 

 leaves are smaller, silky when young, evincing an affinity to 

 S.fusca, and its allies ; on which account I have, in compliance 

 with the opinion of my experienced friend Mr. Borrer, placed 

 this very ambiguous, though very distinct, species, here. The 

 nature of its pubescence undoubtedly justifies this determina- 

 tion, and answers to the character, however artificial, of the 

 present section ; approaching moreover to the partly naked, 

 partly silky, foliage of the following. 



48. S. rosmarhnfoUa, Rosemary-leaved Willow. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, pointed, straight, entire; silky 

 beneath. Stem erect. Catkins ovate, recurved. Ger- 

 men stalked, lanceolate, silky. 



S. rosmarinifolia. Linn. Sp. PL 1448. Fl. Suec. ed. 2.352. Willd. 

 v.4.697. Fl. Br. 1062. Engl. Bot. v. \9. t. 1365. Rees'sCycl. 

 77.109. Ehrh.Arb.\\9. 



S. repens g. Huds. 429 ! 



S. pumila, rhamni secundi Clusii folio. Dill, in RaiiSyn.447. 



S. humilis repens angustifolia. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 137./. Bauh. Hist. 

 v.].p.2.2\4.f. 



In moist sandy ground. 



Found by J. Sherard. Dill. Sent by Mr. Dickson, probably from 

 Scotland, to Mr. Crowe. 



Shrub. April. 



A slender upright shrub, 2 or 3 feet high, allied in its habit, silky 

 silvery foliage, and short ovate catkins, to *S. Dicksoniana, 77. 31, 

 and .S. Arbuscula, n. 33 3 but much more silky, or downy, than 

 either, and the catkins at first are singularly recurved. The 

 branches are upright, very slender, round ; silky when young. 

 Leaves scattered, on short slender stalks, nearly upright, straight, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, hardly ever more than \ of an inch broad, 

 at most, and from 1 to 2 inches long, entire, sometimes beset 

 with a few marginal glands ; the upper surface silky when young, 

 but soon becoming smooth and veiny, of a rather light green, 

 scarcely blackened in drying} under glaucous, and at every 

 period more or less silky. Stipulas, if present, rather large, 

 erect, ovate, oblique, silky, rarely divided. Catkins lateral, 

 nearly sessile, with 2 or 3 linear bracteas, densely silky at the 

 back ; at first drooping, ovate, and very short 5 as they advance 

 becoming more erect^ but still short and thick. Scales small. 



