CHAP. CIII. SALICA CER. SA‘LIX. 1535 
et 
Group x. Rosmarinifolie Borrer- 
Low Shrubs, with narrow Leaves. 
LIL 
Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary silky, stalked. Catkins short. Flowers 
loosely disposed in the catkin. Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, or toothed 
with extremely minute glanded teeth. Plants small upright shrubs. (ook. 
Br. Fil., ed. 2.) 
x 48. S. rosmariniro‘LiA L. The Rosemary-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1448.; Willd. Sp. Pl, 4. p.697.; Hayne Abbild., p. 244.; Pursh Fl. 
Amer. Sept., 2. p.61¥. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 109. ; Eng. Bot., t. 1365. ; Eng. Fl., 4. p. 214.5 
Forbes in Sal, Wob., No. 87.; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3. p. 423, 
Cam S. rosmarinifolia, part of, Koch Comm., p. 49. __ 4 
he Sexes. The female is described in Eng. Fl., and figured in Eng. Bot. Smith has noted that he 
had not seen the catkins of the male. ‘This is pele described, and both sexes are figured, in 
Sal. Wob. Both are described in Willd. Sp. Pl., and figured in Hayne Abbild. 
ee ids Hayne Abbild., t. 186. ; Eng. Bot., t. 1365. ; Sal. Wob., No. 87.; our fig. 1320. ; and fig. 87. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, silky, quite entire, or with a few 
_very minute glanded teeth, especially the young leaves. Catkins shortly 
oblong, curved, lax. Ovaries stalked, silky, lanceolate-acuminate. Style 
about as long as the linear divided stigmas. Bracteas short, 
villous. (Hook. Br. Fl.,ed. 3.) “ Native of moist sandy or 
turfy places in Sweden, Germany, and the northern parts of 
Britain ; flowering in April. Pursh, finding it likewise ‘in wet 
meadows and mountain swamps from Pennsylvania to Ca- 
rolina, presumes that it has been imported thence into 
England. Our specimens, however, accord exactly with 
the Finland ones of Linnzus, and the German one of 
Ehbrhart, so that it seems common to both quarters of the 
world.” (Smith in Rees’s Cyclo.) Flowering in April and 
May. Aslender upright shrub, 2 ft. or 3ft. high; allied in 
its habits (silky silvery foliage, and short ovate catkins) to 
S. angustifolia ? Wuf., Borrer, Hooker; but much more 1320 
silky or downy; and the catkins, at first, are singularly recurved. The 
branches are upright, very slender, round, silky when young. Leaves 
scattered, on short slender stalks, nearly upright, straight, liear-lanceolate, 
acute, hardly ever more than 1in. broad at most, and from 1 in. to 2in. 
long ; entire, sometimes beset with a few marginal glands; the upper surface 
silky when young, but soon becoming glabrous and veiny, of a rather light 
green, scarcely blackened in drying; under surface glaucous, and at every 
period more or less silky. Catkins lateral; at first drooping, ovate, and 
very short, but, as they advance, becoming more erect. The ovaries of this 
species are smaller, and more awl-shaped, than in S. angustifolia Borrer, 
Hooker, ? Wulf. 
) 
a +49, S. ancustiro‘L1a Borrer, Hooker, ? Wulf. The narrow-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Borrer and Hook. in Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2» P. 417. ; ? Wulf. in Jacq. Coll., 3. 48. 
Synonymes. S. arbiscula Smith Fl. Brit., p. 1050., Eng. Bot., t. 1366., Rees’s Cyclopedia, No. 65., 
Eng. Flora, a > 198., exclusively of the synonymes of Lin., perhaps of other synonymes, Forbes 
in Sal. Wob., No. 86., not No. 138.; S. rosmarinifdlia « Koch Comm., p. 49. Smith, in his Eng. 
Flora, has referred S. angustifdlia Wulf. to S. incubacea L.; and Koch has referred S. incubhoss £ 
to S. rosmarinifolia L. 
The Sexes. The female is described in Eng. Flora, and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob. Smith 
has noted, in Eng. Flora, that the flowers of the male were unknown to him. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1366.; the temale, Sal,jWob., t. 86.; our sig. 1321. ; and fig. 86. in p. 1618. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous, with minute glan- 
dular teeth ; the young leaves silky ; glaucous beneath. Catkins ovate, erect. 
Ovaries ovate-acuminate, densely silky, stalked. Style about as long as the 
broad, erect, entire stigmas. Bracteas very villous, nearly as long as the young 
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