DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. ^01 



Dicks. Dr. PL 44. Hook. Scot. 283. FY. Dan. t. 212. llofm. 

 Sal. V. 2, 3. t. 25—27. Wahlenb. Lapp. 262. 



S. n. 1 650. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 309. 



S. pumila, folio rotundo. Dunk. Hist. v.\.p.2.2\ 7 .f. Rail Sijn. 449. 



On the loftiest mountains of Yorkshire, Wales and Scotland, 



Upon Ingleborough and Whern-side, Yorkshire ; T. Willisell. Ray. 

 On the tops of the highest mountains of North Wales. Ray. On 

 many of the Highland mountains^ in a micaceous soil. Light- 

 foot. 



Shrub. June. 



Larger than the last, with stout, woody, procumbent stems and 

 branches, either mantling the Alpine rocks, or spreading on the 

 ground, in large patches. Leaves 3 from each bud, on long 

 slender /oo^i-^o/Zirs, without stipulas, alternate, nearly orbicular, 

 or somewhat elliptical, an inch broad, firm, coriaceous, though 

 deciduous, entire, with an occasional notch at the end; the 

 upper surface wrinkled, of a deep shining green ; under very 

 glaucous, or whitish, beautifully reticulated with abundance of 

 prominent veins, now and then somewhat silky, but I have not 

 seen them so in British specimens, except perhaps when very 

 voung. The summit of each/oo^s^a///; is often bearded with silky 

 hairs. Calkins solitary at the end of the same branch, above the 

 leaves, each on a simple, often downy, leafless stalk, longer than 

 the footstalks, exactly cylindrical, obtuse, reddish, dense, many- 

 flowered, about an inch long, with obovate, partly woolly, 

 scales. Stam. 2, distinct, twice the length of the scales, with an 

 awl-shaped nectary at their base. Germ, ovate, often curved, 

 sessile, downy ; sometimes, if not always, with a nectary of 4 

 club-shaped glands at its base. Hoffmann represents a single 

 gland only, and it is possible the 4 glands drawn in Engl. Bot. 

 may be accidental. Stigmas nearly sessile, deeply divided. 

 Caps, ovate, tumid, brown, downy or cottony, twice as long 

 as the close-pressed, permanent scale. 

 A most elegant little Willow, which, as Dr. Wahlenberg remarks, 

 seems scarcely related to any other. Yet the spreading woody 

 roots, dwarf stems, round veiny leaves, and terminal long-stalked 

 catkins, coming after the foliage, from the same bud, and unat- 

 tended hy Jloral-leaves, accord singularly with S. herbacea; to 

 which the'plant before us, however widely and essentially distinct 

 as a species, is evidently akin, S. polaris, Wahlenb. Lapp. 261. 

 1. 13./. 1, belongs to the same tribe. 



*** Leaves all shaggy, xscoollij, or silly . 



37. S. glauca. Glaucous Mountain Willow. 



Leaves nearly entire, elliptic-lanceolate ; even and nearly 

 smooth above; wooll}' and snow-white beneath. Foot- 

 stalks deciu-rent. Germen sessile, ovate, woolly. 



