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SPECIES XXXIII.-SALIX HERBAGE A. Linn. 



Plate MCCCLXXVIII. 



Uclcl. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLVII. No. 1182. 



Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 125. Sm. Engl. Bot. cd. i. No. 1907, and Engl. FI. Vol. TV. 



p. 199. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 473. Hooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 413. 



Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 316. 



Stems buried, rooting; branches short, ascending or erect, some of 

 the main ones (apparently) terminating in a peduncle. Leaves few, 

 rather rigid, flat, suborbicular or broadly-oval, rounded or subcordute 

 at the base, obtuse or retuse at the apex, crenate-serrate or serrate, 

 green, glabrous, shining, and with strongly elevated reticulated veins 

 on both surfaces. Stipules absent or minute, ovate. Bud-scales 

 sometimes persistent. Catkins opening after the leaf-buds, on veiy 

 short leafless peduncles apparently termmating some of the main 

 branches, rather slender, oblong-ovoid, short, few-flowered; catkin- 

 scales oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse, yellowish-olive, or 

 purplish, subglabrous, ciliated and sometimes pilose within on the 

 inside. Stamens 2 ; filaments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate- 

 conical, on a glabrous (rarely slightly silky-hairy) stalk shorter than 

 the nectary ; style short ; stigmas rather slender, 2-cleft. Young 

 branches pubescent ; under side of the midrib of the leaves sparingly 

 pilose, soon glabrous ; buds glabrous. 



On the tops of liigh mountains ; on the Beacon of Breckon, Snow- 

 don, the mountains of the north of England and south of Scotland. 

 Very plentiful on most of the Highland mountains, from 2,500 to 3,000 

 feet. The lowest elevation at which it is kno\vn to occur in Scotland 

 is on Hoy Hill, Orkney, the height of which is, I believe, under 

 1,600 feet. Local, but widely distributed in L^eland, and descending 

 as low as 1,200 feet. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A very small plant, the greater part of it buried in the barren 

 rocky debris in which it grows, and in which the stems often ramify 

 for some distance; the exposed part of the branches from 1 to 3 inches 

 long, each with 2 to 6 leaves on each twig. Leaves on very short 

 petioles, ^ to 1 inch long, deep green, beautifully marked with a net- 

 work of veins, and generally marked with minute white pomts. The 

 branches which terminate in peduncles are similar to the others, but 

 the pediuicle is not truly terminal, as there is a bud in the axd of the 

 uppermost leaf, which represents the real direct prolongation of the 

 branch, but this bud is not developed till the year succeedmg that ui 



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