86 THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



Syn. Chamitea reticulata Kerner, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 

 x. (1860), 277. 



Icon. Hoffmann, t. 25, f. 1, 2 ; tt. 26, 27. E. Bot. 1908. 

 Forbes, t. 67. Fl. Dan. 212. Camus, Atlas, pi. 9, j-m. Enander, 

 Sal. Scand. exs. 1 b, c, d, f; 2 b, c, d. 



Exs. Herb. Linn. Nos. 37, 38. Herb. Borrer. Leefe, Sal. 

 Brit. exs. No. 49. Hb. B. White, No. 313, &c. E. F. & W. E. 

 Linton, No. 50. Enander, Nos. la,e; 2 a. Toepffer, Nos. 87, 

 88; 89, 90 (var. sericea). 



A compact dwarf shrub with stems on the ground often buried in 

 moss ; branches short, ascending, few-leaved, glabrous or soon gla- 

 brescent, at length dark brown + polished ; buds oval hairy at the 

 tip at first, their scales often persistent, flower-buds large, olive to 

 olive-brown. Petioles rather long, often tinged with red ; stipules 0. 

 Leaves few ; blades J-2 in. long, broadly or narrowly oboval, or 

 oval, or sometimes almost circular, rounded or cordate at the 

 base, or more rarely narrowed to the petiole, rounded above, 

 sometimes apiculate or retuse, entire or with minute gland-tipped 

 nerve-points but scarcely denticulate, margin often reflexed ; 

 coriaceous, clothed with long silky hair while young, soon glabrous 

 deep green and rugose with impressed nerves above, glabrescent 

 rather later and very glaucous and reticulate with raised buff or 

 reddish-buff nerves beneath. Catkins developed after the leaves, 

 fl. June, July, terminal, leaf-opposed with a bud between, slender 

 in flower, on rather long pubescent peduncles ; cf \ r \ in. long, 

 peduncled ; bracts obovate or roundish -obovate, clothed with 

 woolly pubescence, light brown; anthers reddish at first, filaments 

 pilose at the base ; 2 J-li in. long, on rather longer and stouter 

 peduncles (h-1 in. long) ; bracts like those of the male or darker 

 brown ; ovaries white-tomentose sessile or the lowest subsessile ; 

 ovaries J-| in. long, broadly ovoid or ovoid-conic, obtuse turning 

 reddish- brown in maturity ; nectaries 2-4 partite embracing the 

 base of the ovaries ; styles short stout. 



S. reticulata is found at 2200-3600 ft., frequently in the 

 Breadalbane Mountains, Perthshire, and formerly in the Clova 

 Mountains, Forfarshire, where it is now rather scarce ; Glen 

 Callater, Aberdeenshire ; recorded also from Inverness and Suther- 

 land (no specimen seen). Pyrenees ; Iceland and Arctic Europe ; 

 Arctic Asia ; N. America, Labrador, Greenland. 



S. reticulata x Andersoniana ? (p. 68). 

 x herbacea (p. 85). 

 x lanata (p. 76). 

 x lapponum (p. 38). 



