DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 2^3 



By no means a dwarf variety of S. cinerea, aqiiatica, aurita, or, 

 still less, oleifoUa ! It is needless to repeat their differences, 

 or to show the total dissimilarity of the present^ any more than 

 of the following species. 



56. S. Andersoniana. Green Mountain Sallow. 



Stem upright. Leaves elliptical, acute, finely notched, 

 slightly downy ; paler beneath. Stipulas half-ovate, 

 nearly smooth. Branches minutely downy. Germen 

 smooth; its stalk almost equal to the scale. Style cloven, 

 longer than the cloven stigmas. 

 S. Andersoniana. Ew^/. J5o^i;.33. /.2343. Co?«p. et/. 4. 163. Ree^i's 

 Cycl n. 1 23. Hook. Scot. 285. fVinch Geogr. Distrib. ed. 2. 34 ; 

 from the author. 

 In woods, and on the banks of rivers, in Scotland and the north of 



England. 

 Brought from Breadalbane, where Dr. Walker first found it, by the 

 late Mr. George Anderson. At Heaton Dene, and upon the 

 banks of the fyne, below Newcastle. Mr. Winch. 

 Shrub. April, May. 



Stem bushy, its branches green the first summer, afterwards of a 

 sooty brown, are clothed with dense, short, curved down, finally 

 disappearing from the older ones. Leaves of a rich bright green, 

 blackish when dried, an inch or inch and half long, broadly ellip- 

 tical, acute, scarcely pointed, fiat, finely crenate, or copiously and 

 bluntly serrated ; paler, but not glaucous, underneath ; more or 

 less downy on both sides, especially the midrib and veins, with 

 minute hairs ; their substance thin and pliant ; the very young 

 ones silky. Footstalks downy » rather short. Stipulas small, 

 half-ovate, toothed, slightly downy, erect and flat ; after a while 

 recurved and vaulted. Fertile catkins somewhat stalked, short, 

 ovate, coming before the leaves, subsequently elongated and 

 cylindrical. Bracteas ovate, minutely crenate, more than half 

 as long as the catkins ; smooth above ; sparingly silky beneath. 

 Scales obovate, all over blackish, bearded. Nect. cylindrical, 

 abrupt, papillary. Germ, ovate-lanceolate, green, (^uite smooth 

 and naked, its stalk smooth, nearly equal in length to the scale. 

 Style stout, avvl-shai)e(l, smooth, cloven at the summit, longer 

 than the thick, obtuse, likewise cloven, stii^mas. Catkin of ripe 

 capsules not above an inch long. 

 The fimooth ^rcr men distinguishes this from every other known spe- 

 cies of tl\e Sallow tribe ; to which its pubescence, stipulas, and 

 the structure, as well as pr()])ortion, of the parts of frnctilication, 

 demonstrate its affinity. \Vc know not of its being put to any 

 use. 



