260 ENGLISH BOTAm". 



which the catkin is produced ; stalk of the catkin pilose, J to \ inch 

 long. Flowers 3 to 12 in the female catkins. The capsule is very 

 shortly stalked, often tinged with purple ; style shorter than the 

 stigmas, which are recurved. The male catkins I have not seen in a 

 recent state ; the anthers are described by Dr. Arnott as yellow or 

 brown when empty, by Wimmer as sometimes violet, sometimes golden. 



Least Willow. 

 French, Saule herlace. German, Krautartige Weide. 



SPECIES XXXIV.— SAL IX RETICULATA. Lhm. 



Plate MCCCLXXIX. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLVII. Fig. 1184. 



Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 129. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1908. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 



200. HooJc. in Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 3G1. Hool: & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 405. 



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

 " Chamitia reticulata, Kerner,'^ test. Wimm. I.e. 



Stems mostly buried, rooting ; branches short, ascending, some of 

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

 subcoriaceous, oval or suborbicular or obovate, rounded at the base 

 (rarely wedgeshaped or subcordate), rounded or retuse at the apex, 

 entire or repand, dark dull green, glabrous or subglabrous rugose 

 above, from the veins being impressed, glabrous and hoary and with 

 elevated reticulated yellowish veins beneath. Stipules absent or rudi- 

 mentary. Bud-scales often persistent. Catkins opening after the leaf- 

 buds, on rather long leafless peduncles apparently terminating some of 

 the main branches, slender, oblong-cylindrical, short, many-flowered ; 

 catkin-scales oblong -oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, rounded or trun- 

 cate, often purplish, at length brown. Stamens 2; filaments free, 

 glabrous. Capsule ovate-conical, acuminate, hoary, tomentose, sub- 

 sessile; style very short; stigmas oblong, notched, or 2-cleft. Young 

 branches glabrous; young leaves pilose with very deciduous hairs; 

 buds pubescent, very soon glabrous. 



On dry rocky ledges and mountains, especially those composed of 

 mica-slate. Local. Abundant in the Breadalbane and Clova Mountains; 

 in Aberdeenshire it is known to grow only in Glen Callater; reported 

 to have been found by Dr. Graham on Ben Hope, Sutherland ; stated 

 to occur in the counties of Carnarvon, York, Westmoreland, and 

 Cumberland, but erroneously, as S. herbacea was the plant meant by 

 the older botanists. 



Scotland. Shrub. Summer, Autumn. 

 A handsome shrub, very similar in its mode of growth to S. 



