DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 43 



lot. obs. 568. 1. lc. ii. 137. 2-Park. 1435. 4-^. 5. i. b. 

 214. 2. 



Leaves strap-shaped, pointed, underneath shining, silky, 

 woolly. Leaf-scales none. Linn* — Twigs remarkably tough. 

 Approaches nearest to $. vitellina. Curt. — The evidence of 

 this being with us a native species, was far from satisfactory, but 

 it is now inserted on the authority of Mr. Curtis, though Dr. 

 Smith assures us that he has never seen a native specimen. 



Salix repens * Hubs. - Rosemary-leaved Willow. Low fields. 



Linn.— Found amongst Mr. J. Sherard's dried plants, 'the place 

 not named. R. Syn. On the edge of a rivulet which runs into 

 Semer Water, Wensledale, Yorkshire. Curt. 



S. Leaves spear-strap-shaped, very long, acute, silky un-\ 



derneath : branches rod-like. 



Hoffm. sal. l.Z.andi. 5. 2. Foliage 1.21. 2.-J. B. l.b* 

 212. Q.-FucBs. 336.— (Munt. 12, is S. vitellina, and 

 Hunt. Evel. 245, S. fragilis.) 



A slender and very tall shrub. Leaf and. fewer buds dis- 

 tinct, as in •$. Caprea. Leaves rolled back at the edges before 

 they are unfolded. Linn. — Sometimes tree-like. Bark greyish, 

 smooth, with here and there a crack. Branches very long, 

 straight, slender, tough. M. Catkins egg-shaped or oblong, 1 

 to 1 £ inch in length, 6 or % lines in breadth, on very short fruit- 

 stalks. Stamens 2. Nectary 1. F. Catkins egg-oblong or cylin- 

 drical, 1 to 1| inch long, £ inch broad, on fruit-stalks 2 lines long. 

 Leaves, especially the lower ones, a span long, or more ; waved at 

 the edge.* The leaves being silvery underneath, the nectary in 

 t the male flower being long and slender, and the style in the 

 female flower being very long, are sufficient to distinguish this 

 and its varieties from the other species. Hoffman. — Leaves 

 above deep shining green, underneath greyish, closely beset with 

 very fine short hairs lying close to the substance of the leaf. 

 Leafstalks about half as long as the breadth of the leaf. A small 

 tongue-shaped, glandular substance fixed to the stem, just above 

 the insertion of the leaf-stalk, in the upper part of which there 

 is a hollow to receive it. Leaf-scales minute, 1 on each side of 



the base of each leaf-stalk. 



* The edges of the /eaves are rolled back, especially when young ; 

 when old they are waved, but never serrated; tor which reason this spe- 

 cies is now removed to the third division, from the fourth, where it 

 formerly stood. 



