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ix. Phylicifoli^:. 



12. Salix Andersoniana Smith, E. Bot. t. 2343 ; in Eees 

 Cycl. 123; Engl. Fl. iv. 223. 



Syn. S. nigricans (<? only) Sm. Fl. Brit. 1047; Engl. Fl. iv. 

 172 ; in Eees Cycl. 14. Seringe, Essai, 42. Doell, 504. Gren. 

 & Godr. 138. Wiminer, Sal. Eur. 70. Anderss. DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 (2), 240. Syme, E. B. viii. 242. Camus, Monogr. 194. Seemen, 

 iv. 131.— S. phylicifolia /? L. Sp. PI. 1016.— S. hirta, <?, Sm. Engl. 

 Fl. iv. 221.— S. Damascena (Forbes) E. B. S. 2709.— S. phijlici- 

 folia (3 nigricans B. White, Eevision, 396, 400. Linton in Journ. 

 Bot. 1896, 462. 



Icon. Hoffm. Hist. Sal. t. 18, t. 19, t. 24, f. 2. E. Bot. 1213, 

 1404, 2343 ; E. B. S. 2709, 2725. Forbes, 157. Syme, E. B. viii. 

 tt. 1347, 1351-1354. Camus, Atlas, PL 18. 



Exs. Hb. Smith, S. hirta, $ , S. Andersoniana, 2 . Leefe, 

 Sal. Brit, exs., Nos. 67, 68 ; Sal. exs., Nos. 13, 14, 50, 52, 53, 93, 

 95. Wimmer, Sal. Eelict. (Herb. Sal. 100; Coll. Sal. 62, 66, 80). 

 Magnier, Nos. 2063, 3590. Hb. B. White, Nos. 138, 156, 234, 

 241, 394, 413, 414. E. F. & W. E. Linton, Nos. 64, 65. Toepffer, 

 Nos. 31, 136, 240. Enander, Nos. 101-104. 



A variable shrub, 2-12 ft. in height, erect, or spreading or 

 trailing on mountain rocks, bark dull grey-brown, young branches 

 densely pilose or tomentose, slowly glabrescent ; buds very pilose. 

 Stipules frequent on strong shoots, often large, ^-cordate pointed, 

 crenate- serrate to dentate ; petioles rather long. Leaf-blades 

 1-3 in. long, oval-oblong, or lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, shortly 

 acuminate or acute, serrate, or crenate-serrate, with serrations 

 crowded to the tip ; rather thin, not coriaceous, green, pubescent 

 at first, then glabrescent above, paler green or glaucous usually 

 shading into deeper green towards the tip, and ± pubescent 

 beneath, sometimes becoming subglabrous except on the principal 

 nerves; turning blackish in drying (at least while young). Catkins 

 flowering in May, usually coeval with the leaves ; $ |-1 in. long, 

 subsessile with 2-3 undeveloped leaves at the base, filaments 

 pilose below ; ? J-1J in. long, lengthening to 2 or 3 in. in fruit, 

 on leafy tomentose peduncles ; pedicels 3 to 4 times as long as 

 the quadrate or shortly oblong nectaries ; ovaries usually glabrous 

 (always, fide S. J. Enander), pubescent in some forms ; styles long, 

 stigmas commonly divided, large, almost as long as the styles. 



The varieties which have been placed under S. nigricans (to 

 use a little longer the customary designation), which were first 

 described as species, but, shading as they do into one another, are 

 now thought scarcely worth retaining as varieties, are mainly 

 distinguished by variation in the shape of the leaf-blades and in 

 the clothing of the ovaries. 



In determining the status and position of the forms and 

 varieties of S. nigricans (of which some sixty or more are said to 

 have been described), it is necessary to define the characters which 

 separate this species from S. phylicifolia L., the species to which 

 it is most closely allied. 



B. White (Eevision, p. 396) says: "In 8. phylicifolia the 



