

n DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 



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quent. Wqodwaxd. — Boggy parts of Charley forest, Leicester- 

 shire. Pulteney.] S. April, May. 



Var. 9. Salix repent * Hvt>$.+—Clus. i. 86. 2-Ger. em. 1391» 

 &-Park. 1435. 3. Either this or a variety of it, with leaves 

 silvery on both sides, was found near Sandwich, Kent. R. Syn. 



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fus'ca. S. Leaves egg-shaped, pubescent underneath. 



Eoffm. sal. ii. 28 and 2§~Jacq. austr. 409~Io£. adv. 423# 

 it. ii. 138, 1-y. B. b. 217* i~a young branch, Ray Syn* 

 19. 3-a leafy Fl. lapp. 8. r. 



A small shrub, very low, creeping. Leaves very small, 

 blunt, nearly sitting, alternate, smooth and green, and at length 

 of a blackish green above, underneath sea-green and shining, with 

 very fine scattered white silky hairs. Catkins without leaves, 

 several, at the end of the last year's shoots, generally turning 

 blackish. Buds of 1 valve, divided. Scales brown. Stamens 

 yellowish. Salix arenaria y incubacea, repens, and fusca y are 



very closely allied. Linn. — About 5 or 0* inches long. Root 

 thick, fibrous, brown. Branches several, knotty, trailing, bark 

 dull reddish or greyish brown, often putting forth roots. M» 

 Catkins terminating, scattered, egg-oblong, near f inch long, 

 black purple, with soft white hairs. Fruitst. long, cylindrical 

 woolly, furnished with 3 to 5 leafits, silky at the edge and on 

 the back. Stam. 2. Nect. 1. F. Catkins fewer, scattered, 

 upright, egg-oblong, on fruit-stalks which continue to grow 

 longer. Leaves crowded, firm, 'upright, very entire, egg-spear* 

 shaped, rather acute at both ends, but sometimes rounded, broader 

 and blunt, smooth, rather shining, dark green, reticulated, trans- 



?arent when viewed against the light. Leaf-stalk smooth, short. 

 Ioffman. — Leaves when young covered with a silky down, 

 especially on the back and at the edge, as in Ray's figure; but 

 this vanishes with age. The readiest mark of distinction be- 

 twixt this and the preceding species, is the Catkins being on the 

 sides of the branches in the S. repens, and terminating in the 

 S. fusca. 



Sand Willow. Brown Willow. S. repens i Huns. — S. are* 

 naria. Lightf.— I am indebted to Dr. Smith for the knowledge 

 , that the S. arena ria of our authors is no other than the S. fusca 

 of Linn. See E. hot. p. 183. [Between Southampton and Win- 

 cher. St.] Sea shores amongst loose blowing sand, as in Can- 

 tire, between Macrianesh and Bar. Lightf. — On the slope of 

 an high hill between Kilnsay and Arncliff, Yorkshire. Curt. 



S. May. July* 



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rosmarini- S. Trailing: leaves spear-strap-shaped, stiff and straight* 







folia. nearly sitting, cottony underneath. 



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