fome BrUiJJj Species of Sallx, 1 23 



hairy. In drying they turn of a purplifli black. The footftalks arc 

 pecuHarly long, linear, and flender, filky on the upper fide. Sti- 

 pulae fmall, crefcent-ftiaped, toothed, fmooth. The female catkins, 

 the only fex I have feen, are fcarcely an inch long, with black, hairy, 

 obovate, often notched, fcales. Germens on long footftalks, fmall, 

 ovate, filky. Stigmas perfectly fcflile, ovate, obtufe, divided into 

 two lobes. 



12. Salix phyUc'ifolia, 



'Tea-leaved Willow. 



S. foliis lanceolatis undulato-crenatis glabris fubtus glaucis, flipulls 



fublunatis. 

 Salix phylicifolia a. Linn, Sp. PL 1442. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 291. /. 8. 



/.d.n.2,5i' 



In alpibus Scoticis. Fl. Maio. 



At Fjnlarig, Bredalbane. Rev. Mr. Stuart. 



I am enabled to add this to the lift of Britifh plants, by means of 

 a fpeciraen fent to Mr. Lightfoot by Mr. Stuart, of I.ufs, and now 

 preferved in his herbarium, among others which the author of tlie 

 Flora Scotica had not fufficient materials to decide upon. Having 

 confronted with this the original Lapland fpecimen of Linnaeus, I 

 can fpeak with certainty to their being exafljy the fame. Unfortu- 

 nately the fruftification is wanting in both, but their leaves are fuf- 

 ficient to mark the fpccies. 



S. pbylicifoUa appears to be a (hrul> with fmooth, flender, fpread- 

 ing branches. Leaves alternate, {talked, exadtly lanceolate, rather 

 acute, furnifhed, about the middle principally, with broad and un- 

 equal crenatures, between which the leaf is as it were almoft finu- 

 ated; the margin is a little more thickened than ordinary; the bafc 



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