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CHAP. CIII. SALICA‘CEH. SA‘LIX. 1537 
Spec. Char., §c. Stems more or less procumbent. Leaves elliptical or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute ; entire, or serrated with minute glanded serratures ; 
somewhat downy; glaucous, and generally very silky beneath. Ovary 
lanceolate, very silky, seated upon a long stalk. Stigmas bifid. (Hook. Br. 
Fi., ed. 2.) Sir W. J. Hooker and Mr. Borrer have referred to this species 
several kinds as varieties, which have been regarded as species by Smith 
and others, and which we give below, retaining the specific character of 
each, for the convenience of those who have received them as species, and 
may wish to identify them. 
Varieties. 
* §.f.1 vulgaris; S.f. var. « Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2.; 8. fasca Smith Eng. 
Bot., t. 1960., Eng. Fl., iv. p. 210., Forbes in Sal. Wob., No.83.; 8. 
répens Koch 8 Koch Comm., p. 47. ; and our fig. 83. in p. 1618.—Stem 
decumbent below, then upright, much branched. Leaves elliptic 
lanceolate. (Id.) Mr. Borrer is disposed to deem the S. fasca Smith 
different from the S. fasca L., at least as seen growing in the garden; 
for he allows that “the dried specimens show no character ;” in 
which latter opinion I cordially agree with him.” (Hooker.) “ The 
plant ” of Smith “itself is usually a small procumbent shrub, with 
rather long straight branches ; but varying exceedingly, according to 
situation and other circumstances, as do the leaves also, which are 
more or less glabrous above, and more or less silky beneath, where 
the nerves are prominent.” (Jd.) The branches are spreading, 
brown, and downy, with fine close hairs when young. (Smith.) Catkins 
generally appearing before the leaves. A very beautiful little species, 
nearly related to S.f. repens; but is distinguishable from it by its 
broader leaves, longer footstalks, and more upright mode of growth. 
Smith states that it is found wild in moist mountainous heaths in 
the north; that its time of flowering is May. In the salictum at 
Woburn, it flowered in May, and again in July. The male plant is 
figured in the English Botany and the Salictum Woburnense. There 
are plants at Woburn Abbey, Henfield, and Flitwick House. 
«SS. f. 2 répens; S.f.B Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2.; S. répens Lin. Sp. Pl., 
1447. (Smith), Willd. Sp. Pl., iv. p. 693., at least in part, Smith in 
Rees’s Cyclo., No. 100., Eng. Boi., t.183., Eng. Fi., iv. p. 209., 
Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 84., our fig. 84. in p. 1618., ? Hayne Abbild., 
p- 241. t. 183., ? Pursh Fl. Amer., il. p.610.; S. répens Koch a 
Koch Comm., p. 47.—The following description of this kind is derived 
from Eng. Fl. and Sal. Wob.: — Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, straight, 
somewhat pointed, nearly entire ; almost naked above, glaucous and 
silky beneath. Stipules none. Stem depressed, with short up- 
right branches. Ovary stalked, ovate, downy. Capsules glabrous. 
(Smith E.F.) <A native of Britain, on moist and dry heaths, 
moors, and sandy situations; flowering in May. Stem woody, de- 
pressed, often creeping; sending up numerous upright branches, 
about a finger’s length; sometimes subdivided and spreading ; some- 
times procumbent and moderately elongated ; all round and glabrous, 
except the small leafy shoots of the present year, which are downy. 
Leaves small, from 3 in. to 3 in. long, elliptical or broadly lanceolate, 
somewhat revolute; nearly or quite entire, veiny, bluntish, with a 
minute straight poimt; the upper surface dark green, glabrous; 
under surface glaucous, densely silky when young. Footstalks short 
and broad, frequently downy. Catkins appearing before the leaves, 
numerous, and attaining | in. in length, in the fertile plant, when 
| the seeds are ripe. Both sexes are described in Eng. Flora, and 
‘ both are figured in Eng. Bot., in Sal. Wob., and in Hayne Abbild., if 
1 the latter engraving belongs to this willow. Tiere are plants at 
P Woburn Abbey and in the Goldworth Arboretum. 
« S. f. 3 prostrata ; S. f. var. y Hook. Br. Fi., ed. 2.; S. prostrata Smith 
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