256 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



clothed with rust-coloured hairs. Stamens at first reddish, after- 

 wards yellow. Capsule very densely tomentose, with dirty white 

 or rust-coloured hairs. Hairs of the coma of the seeds dull white 

 or reddish white. Style much shorter than the capsule, but variable 

 in length. 



The var. 3 of the eighth edition of the " British Flora " I have not 

 seen ; it is described as having the leaves broadly or roundish-ovate, 

 prominently veined above, green but scarcely shining on both sides. 

 Dr. Walker- Arnott says it is precisely intermediate between some 

 of the forms of S. Arbuscula and S. Myrsinites, and may be a hybrid. 

 The ovaries are almost sessile, and the colour of the scales and 

 the numerous lateral flower-shoots indicate its greater affinity to 

 S. arbuscula. 



Plum-leaved Willow. 



French, Saule glahre. 



SPECIES XXXI.— S ALIX MYRSINITES. Linn. 



Plates MCCCLXXV. MCCCLXXVI. 



Reich. Ic. ¥1 Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLIX and DLX. figs. 1188—1194 

 Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 97. 



Stems exposed, decumbent, main branches terminating in a barren 

 shoot. Leaves firm, recurved, elliptical or oval or oblanceolate or 

 obovate, obtuse or acute or acuminate, serrated or nearly entire, 

 bright or dark green, glabrous, shining, with elevated veins above, 

 green and glabrous or more or less hairy on the veins beneath; 

 rarely pilose above or on both sides. Stipules rarely present, minute, 

 lanceolate. Catkins opening at the same time as the leaf-buds or 

 after them, at the apex of solitary or subsolitary rather long leafy 

 lateral shoots, thick, oblong or oblong-cylindrical. Catkin-scales 

 oval-oblanceolate, obtuse, dull purple, pilose. Stamens 2; filaments 

 free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate-conical or conical-subulate, pilose or 

 pubescent, rarely glabrous at the base, on a stalk about as long as 

 the nectary; style rather long, cleft at the apex; stigmas thick, 

 generally notched or 2-cleft. Young branches thinly woolly or pilose ; 

 young leaves sparingly pilose on both sides; buds hairy, soon be- 

 commg glabrous. 



Var. a, s errata. 



Plate MCCCLXXV. 



S. Myrsinites, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1360, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 193. Hook. 

 Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 372. HooJc. & Arii. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 412. Bah. Man. Brit. 

 Bot. ed. vi. p. 315. 



Leaves oval, acute, ' serrated, at length nearly glabrous. Catkins 

 short or elongate, thick. 



