252 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



A small shrub 2 to 4 feet high, with numerous thick tortuous 

 knotted branches. Leaves Ito 2 inches long, variable in form. Catkins 

 few, produced from very large brown strigosely-hairy buds near the 

 apex of the branches, the hairs falling off before the catkin emerges. 

 The male catkins are 1 to 2 inches long; the female at length 2 to 

 4 inches long, with blackish scales completely hidden by the very long 

 canary-coloured hairs, which, however, in the female catkins soon fade 

 to dull white after flowering. 



, Woolly Broad-leaved Willow. 



Group V.— DAPHNOIDE^. 



Capsule subsessile; style long; stigma bifid. 



Small shrubs with the catkins subsessile or shortly stalked, bracteate 

 at the base. 



SPECIES XXIX.— SALIX LAPPONUM. Linn. 

 Plates MCCCLXVIII.— MCCCLXX. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXXII. Fig. 2016. 



Whim. Sal. Europ. p. 38. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. \i. p. 314. 



S. arenaria, Linn, (ex ixtrte). Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 405. 



Leaves oblong-oval or lanceolate or oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, 

 rounded or broadly wedgeshaped at the base, acute or shortly acuminate, 

 entire or repand, dark green or greyish, with thin woolly pubescence 

 above, hoary-cottony beneath, with the veins slightly impressed above 

 and prominent beneath; margins narrowly revolute. Stipules (rarely 

 present) obliquely ovate, small. Catkins appearing before or with the 

 young leaves, subsessile, generally with a few leaf-like bracts at the 

 base; the male oblong; the female cylindrical and often very long. 

 Catkin-scales oblong, subacute, densely pilose with very long straight 

 white hairs. Stamens 2; filaments free, glabrous. Capsules ovate- 

 conical, subsessile, cottony-woolly; style very long, exceeding the 

 stigmas ; stigmas filiform, cleft or bipartite. Young branches, buds, 

 and leaves on both sides cottony-woolly. 



Yar. a, arenaria. 



Plate MCCCLXVIII. 



S. arenaria, Linn, {ex parte). Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1809. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. 

 p. 204. IIoolc. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 3G2. 



Leaves oval-oblong or obovate-oblong, somewhat downy and at 

 length subglabrous above, woolly beneath. Style as long as the capsule. 



