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a single bush only, which is now eradicated. More recently it has been 

 met with by Mr. Mudd in Airyholine Wood, and in two or three places 

 by the Leven side near Great Ayton, but only in very small quantities 

 in each station." (Baker^ " North Yorkshire.") 



England (?). Tree. Early Spring. 



A tree rarely above 10 or 12 feet high, much branched, with slender 

 virgate and frequently drooping branches. Leaves 3 to G inches long, 

 very similar in shape to those of S. undulata, but more acute and not 

 so firm in texture, quite glabrous. Stipules callous-serrate. Male 

 catkins 1 to 1 i^ inch long, very thick and very densely silky from tlie 

 long hairs which adorn the black pointed catkin-scales. The female 

 catkins I have not seen. 



Wimmer appears to consider this a species originally from Eastern 

 Europe or Asia. 



Violet Willow. 



German, Sioitzhldttrige Weide. 



SPECIES XXVIIL— SALIX LAN AT A. Linn. 



Plate MCCCLXVII. 



Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 2. IIool: in Engl. Bot. Suppl. No. 2024. Sm. Engl. Fl. 

 Vol. IV. p. 205. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 413. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. 

 eel. vi. p. 315. 



Leaves oval or suborbicular or elliptical-obovate, rounded or subcor- 

 date at the base, abruptly pointed or very shortly acuminate, entire or 

 repand, grey with woolly hairs above, glaucous and pilose on the veins 

 beneath, reticulate-veined when dry. Stipules generally present, large, 

 obliquely ovate, half-cordate, subacute, deciduous. Catkins appearing 

 with the young leaves, sessile near the extremities of the branches, 

 with a few subfoliaceous bracts at the base, cylindrical, very long, 

 dense. Catkin-scales oblong, obtuse, very densely pilose with very 

 long straight golden hairs turning to white. Stamens 2 ; filaments 

 free, glabrous. Capsule conical-subulate, subcompressed, glabrous, on 

 a stalk not exceeding the nectary in length; style long, exceeding the 

 stigmas; stigmas oblong, notched or 2-cleft. Young branches and 

 buds woolly, soon becoming glabrous ; young leaves woolly on both 

 sides, the hairs yellow, soon turning white. 



On wet rocks. Rare. Clova Mountains, Forfarshire ; Corrie of 

 Loch Keander, Glencallater, Aberdeen ; Maol Cuachlar, 8 miles west of 

 Killin, Perth. 



Scotland. Shrub. Late Spring, early Sunmier. 



