CHAP. CIII. SALICA‘CEH. SALIX. 1545 
in the willow garden at Woburn Abbey, in April and May. This species 
grows to the height of 5 ft. or 6 ft.; quite erect, with dark green, rounded, 
pubescent branches; the old ones shining and glabrous after the first year. 
Leaves from 2 in. to nearly 3 in. or 33 in. long, and from lin, to 14 in, broad ; 
densely silky on both sides, elliptic-lanceolate, with acute oblique points; the 
lower rather obtuse ; margins entire ; whitish and glaucous beneath ; closely 
covered with long, compressed, silky hairs. Midrib prominent, yellow. 
Footstalks yellow, pubescent, very stout, and much dilated at the base. 
Catkins lin. or more in length, appearing before the expansion of the 
leaves. They remain on the plant during the greater part of the summer ; 
by which peculiarity this very distinct species is readily known from every 
other. The female plant is figured and described in the Salictum Woburnense. 
* 63. S. Lappo‘Num L. The Laplanders’ Willow. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1447.; Fl. Lapp., 366.t. 8. f. ¢, ed. 2., 500. t. 8. f.¢; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. 
p. 689. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 89., but the syn. S, ser{cea Villars, there applied to S. Lappo - 
num, Koch has applied to S. glatica ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 73. 
Synonyme. S. arenaria Fl. Dan.,, t. 197. (Smith.) 
The Sexes. ‘The female is described in Willd. Sp. bi, and described and figured in Sal. Wob. 
aagroviegs: Lin. Fl. Lapp., t. 8. £ t, ed.2., t. 8. ££; Sal. Wob., No. 73.; our fig. 1325, ; and fig. 73. 
in p. . 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, very entire, bluntish ; hoary above, woolly 
beneath. Seed-vessels woolly and oblong. (Forbes S. W.) A native of 
Lapland; flowering there in May and June, and, in the Woburn collection, 
in April. Introduced in 1812. “ This appears to be a very 
distinct species from glatca, eleagnifolia, arenaria, lanata, and 
Stuartidna. It grows with me to about | ft. high, with short, 
pale, decumbent branches; sometimes the young twigs are 
tinged, with red. Leaves from 1 in. to 14 in. long, often un- 
equal at the base, densely downy on both surfaces, and white 
beneath. Catkins from 1 in. to 14 in. long.” ( Forbes.) Smith 
has incidentally noted in Eng. F/., iv. p. 202., the following 395 
ri 5 i d 1325 
characters of S. Lapponum L. : —“ Leaves 2 in. to 2} in. long, 
greyish, all over very silky, both sides alike at every period of their growth, 
and never cottony. Catkins large, with large floral leaves, like the proper 
leaves. Bracteas oblong, hairy. Ovary and capsule sessile, peculiarly 
woolly.” It grows wild in the alps of Lapland, everywhere. ( Willd.) 
& * 64. S. oprusiro‘LIA Willd. The blunt-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. P1., 4 p. 705.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 131. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, wedge-shaped at the base, finely villous on both surfaces, 
glaucous on the under one ; the upper leaves acute and entire; the lower bluntish and distantly 
toothed. Frequent in the woods and on the mountains of Lapland. (Lin. and Smith.) A slender 
shrub, not unfrequently(arborescent. Young branches clothed with long silky down. Leaves 
rather more than 2in. long, and jin. wide. It is remarkable that, contrary to the nature of most 
willows, the lower blunter leaves of each branch are furnished with minute distant teeth ; while 
the i and pointed ones are quite entire. Except in the teeth of the leaves, it comes nearer . 
to S. Lappdnum than any other. (Smith.) Introduced in 1818. 
2 65. S. aRENA‘RIA L. The sand Willow. 
Identification. Lin. Sp, P1., 1447. ; Lin. Fil. Lapp., ed. 2., 298. t. 8. f. 0, q¢; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 689., 
exclusively of the synonymes ; Hayne Abbild., p. 236.; Fl. Dan., t. 197., and Il., No. 1642. ; 
Smith in Rees’s Cyclo, No. 90.; Smith Eng, Bot., t. 1809;, Eng. Fil., 4. 204. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., 
No. 70. ; Hook. Br. F1., ed. 3., p. 426. 
9 ton S. limdsa Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp., 265., Koch Comm., p. 54. 
he Sexes. Both are described in Eng. Flora, and both are figured in Sai. Wob.: the male is 
figured in Eng. Bot. 
c Te. Fl Lapp., ed. 2., t. 8. f. 0, 9; Gmel. Sib., 1. t. 36. f.1.; Wahlenb. FL Lapp.» 
t. 16. f. 4; Hayne Abbild., t. 179; Eng. Bot., t. 1809.; Sal. Wob., No, 70.; and jig. 70. in p. 1 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves nearly entire, ovate, acute; reticulated and some- 
what downy above; veiny and densely woolly beneath. Style as long as the 
sessile woolly ovary.  Stigmas linear, deeply divided, the length of the 
style. (Smith E. F.) A native of the Highland mountains, especially 
those of Breadalbane and Clova; flowering there in June, but, in the willow 
garden at Woburn Abbey,in May. A larger and stouter shrub than S.glaica, 
of which it was supposed by the original finder to be the female plant ; but 
