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shining, witli elevated veins above, green beneath, where they are 

 more or less hairy on the veins. Stipules absent ( ?). Catkins opening 

 at the same time as the leaf-buds or after them, at the apex of 

 numerous leafy lateral shoots arranged along the branches, rather 

 slender, oblong-ovoid, short, few-flowered. Catkin-scales oblong- 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, olive, pilose. Stamens unkno^vn. Capsule 

 lanceolate-conical, glabrous, on a silky-hairy stalk, longer than the 

 nectary ; style long ; stigmas rather slender, 2-cleft. Young branches 

 thinly woolly ; young leaves slightly pilose. 



At Frouvyn, Sutherlandshire ; found by the late Dr. Graham. 



Scotland. Shrub. Early Summer. (?) 



Of this plant I have seen only one wild specimen, in Mr. Borrer's 

 herbarium, and a few from his garden. In Mr. Watson's herbarium 

 there are specimens from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. The 

 growth of the plant is more like that of S. phylicifolia or S. nigricans 

 than of any of the present group, but in the catkins and texture 

 of the leaves it approaches nearly to S. herbacea, between which and 

 S. phylicifolia or S, nigricans I suspect it to be a hybrid. 



Stems (in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden plant) exposed, 1 to 3 feet 

 long, ascending. Leaves, when full-grown, 1 to 1^ inch long, much 

 less orbicular than in S. herbacea, and disposed all along the elongate 

 barren, and short fertile branches. Catkins few-flowered, about ^ inch 

 long, on a short glabrous peduncle, bare of flowers at its base. Catkin- 

 scales similar to those of S. Myrsinites, not subpellucid as in S. her- 

 bacea. The stalk of the capsule is silky-hairy in S. Grahami : in S. 

 herbacea it is glabrous ; the style is also longer in the present plant. 



It has been compared with S. polaris of Wahlenberg, which has a 

 hairy capsule, but the mode of growth of that plant is precisely like 

 that of S. herbacea, and quite different from that of S. Grahami. 



Dr. Walker- Arnott, I suppose, speaks of S. Grahami as the willow 

 which resembles S. retusa, but I can see no resemblance to that species. 



Graliam^s Willoiu. 



Group.— GLACIALIS. Koch. 



Very small shrubs, with the main stems buried in the soil, the 

 branches only exposed ; main branches " terminating in a pedun- 

 cle " ( ?), or in an undeveloped bud with a peduncle at its side. 

 Catkin-scales scarious, coloured, and subpellucid. 



