34 NOTICE OF SALIX 8ADLEEI AND CAREX FEIGIDA. 



not being hoary, and with no prominent network of veins beneath. 

 The stalk of the catkin is shorter and more woolly. The scales are 

 very much narrower, resembling in shape and vestiture those of Salix 

 Lapponum. The capsules, which are mostly opened in Mr. Sadler's 

 specimens, are glabrous, whatever they may have been in the young 

 state. The style and stigma resemble those of Salix Lapponum more 

 than those of Salix reticulata. 



Note hy Mr. Sadler. — I discovered this beautiful shrubby Alpine 

 willow, while taking part in an excursion of the Scottish Alpine 

 Botanical Club, growing on rocky turfy ledges to the east of Loch 

 Caenn-mor, Glen Callater, Aberdeenshire, at an altitude of about 830 

 yards above the sea, on 7th August, 1874. I observed only two plants, 

 both of which were female, and fruiting freely. The roots were left 

 undisturbed. Ceann-mor, which is pronounced Keann in Gaelic, means 

 the loch of the big-head. The rocky scenery around the loch is of the 

 wildest and most desolate description. 



Explanation op Tab. 168. 



Fig. a nat. size ; h scale taken from middle of catkin (scales towards the top 

 are narrower) ; c pistil ; d open capsule ; h c and d are magnified. 



Caeex FEIGIDA, AlUoni. 

 (Tab. 159.) 



C. frigida, AUioni, Fl. Ped. ii., p. 270 ; DC. Fl. Franc, iii., 

 p. 124 ; Gaud. Fl. Helv. vi.,p. 121 ; Host, Gram. Austr. iv., tab. 90 ; 

 Keich. Ic, cent, xviii., fig. 616. 



RootstocTc shortly creeping and stoloniferous. Stem erect, rather 

 slender, triquetrous, rough on the edges from immediately below the 

 first bract to the apex, leafy near the base, and usually with one leaf 

 about the middle. Leaves shorter than the stem, firm, linear, flat, 

 rough on the margins, green, not glaucous. Hale spike one, fusiform, 

 without female flowers at the apex, shortly-stalked, much exceeding 

 the female spikes ; female spilcei three or four, the upper approximate 

 and subsessile or shortly, stalked, the lowest one rather distant, and 

 on a long exserted stalk, drooping or pendulous, oblong-cylindrical, 

 rather lax, several or many flowered. Bracts sheathing foliaceous, 

 the lowest one with a lamina much exceeding the stalk of its spike. 

 Glumes of the female flowers oblong, acute or mucronate, madder- 

 purple, with a pale greenish midrib, and sometimes very narrow pale 

 margins, much shorter than but as broad as the fruit. Fruit ascend- 

 ing, sessile, lanceolate-fusiform, trigonous, not inflated, scarcely 

 ribbed, quite smooth, shining, purplish-black, bordered with green, 

 and often with a pale patch on the back towards the base, very 

 gradually acuminated into a long straight rough-edged bifid beak, 

 nearly half as long as the rest of the fruit ; teeth of the beak not 

 with a white and scarious edge on the inner side ; stigmas three ; 

 " nut brown, longly stipulate, elliptical- trigonous, punctate." 



Stems of Mr. Sadler's specimens 6 to 9 inches high. Leaves 2 to 

 6 inches long, by | to tt inch broad, sheathing the base of the stem, 

 and one in the middle ; the lowest sheaths without any lamina. 

 Male spike about ^ inch long, fusiform, female spike J to -^ inch long. 

 Fruit about i inch long. The male spikes in Mr. Sadler's specimens 

 have one or two female flowers towards the base. 



