CHAP. CIII. . SALICA CEH. SA‘LIX. 1543 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves orbicular, somewhat elliptical, obtuse, entire, 
coriaceous, with reticulated veins, nearly glabrous; glaucous beneath. 
Ovary sessile, downy. (Smith E. F.) The young foliage is often floc- 
cose. (Br. Fi., ed. 2.) A native of England, and the high my 
mountains in Wales and Scotland; flowering from May to 
July. Koch has stated its European places of growth to be 
as follows :— Moist rocks, or other moist places, of the 
highest mountains above the limit of perpetual snow, in 
Piedmont, Savoy, Switzerland, the Pyrenees, Germany, 
Carpathia, Transylvania, Britain, and Lapland. Hooker has 
remarked (Br. Fi., ed. 2.) that he possesses S. reticulata, 
obtained from Arczic America, and having long silky hairs 1323 
on both surfaces of the leaf. Mackay has not inserted the species in 
the Flora Hibernica. Lightfoot, as quoted by Smith, has noted the kind 
of soil in which it occurs on many of the Scottish highland mountains 
to be micaceous. “ Larger than S. herbacea, with stout, woody, procumbent 
stems and branches, either mantling the alpine rocks, or spreading on the 
ground in large patches. Leaves 3 from each bud, on long slender foot- 
stalks, without stipules; alternate, nearly orbicular, or somewhat elliptical, 
lin. broad, firm, coriaceous though deciduous, entire, with an occasional 
notch at the end; the upper surface wrinkled, of a deep shining green ; 
the under surface very glaucous or whitish, beautifully reticulated with 
abundance of prominent veins, now and then somewhat silky. Catkins 
solitary at the end of the same branch, above the leaves;” of a purplish 
red colour, as are the buds. The veins on the under surface of the leaf are 
‘of a purplish colour. (Linneus.) This is a most remarkable species, totally 
different from any other; and it ought not to be wanting in any collection. 
‘Smith has deemed it akin to S. herbacea. Koch has associated the two in 
the same group. In its rounded wrinkled leaves, villous when young, in 
its buds, and in its branches, it bears much similarity to S. caprea, though 
it is widely different in its inflorescence. There are plants in the arboretum 
of Messrs. Loddiges, in the Fulham Nursery, and in the Goldworth Ar- 
boretum. 
App. i. Reticuldte described, but not yet introduced. 
S. vestita Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 610., Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No, 76., differs from S. 
reticulata, in having the under side of its leaves clothed with long silky hairs. Pursh calls it a very 
elegant species. It is a native of Labrador. 
Group xiv. Glatce Borrer. 
Small, upright, with soft silky Leaves. 
tall 
Stamens 2 to a flower, Ovary very downy, or silky, sessile. Plants small 
shrubs, most of them upright; all, or most of them, remarkable for their 
foliage, which consists of leaves that are oblong-lanceolate, soft, hairy, silky, 
and, in most, white and cottony on the under surface. The kinds are very 
closely akin, each among the rest. (Hook. Br. Fi., ed. 2., adapted.) Only 
S. glauca L., S. arenaria L., and S. Stuartidna Smith, are associated together 
under the above characteristics in Hook. Br. Fl., ed.2. Of the kinds 
brought together below, as agreeing more or less in the quality of similarity, 
Mr. Borrer has indicated S. eleagnifolia Forbes (elaeagndides Schleicher), S. 
glaica L., S. sericea Villars, S. Lapponum L., S. arenaria Z., S. arenaria L. 
? var., S. leucoph¥lla Schleicher ; and S. Stuartidna Smith. 
& 60. S. ELZAGNOMDEsS Schleicher. The Elaagnus-like Willow. 
Identification. Schleich, Cat. ; Seringe Sal. Helv., p. 91. ; both quoted by Koch in Comm., p. 56. 
