CHAP. cm. 



5ALICA CEiE. -SA'LIX. 



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Group X. Rosmari?iifdli(e Boner 



Low Shrubs, with narrow Leaves. 



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. (Hook. 

 Br. FL, ed. 2.) 



J* 48. S. iiosMARiNiFo'LiA L. The Rosemary-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1448. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 697. ; Hayne Abbild., p. 2-14. ; Pursh Fl. 



Ainer. Sept., 2. p. 612. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 109. ; Eng. Bot., t. lSti5. ; Eiig. Fl., 4. p. 214.; 



Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 87. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3. p. 423. 

 Synonyjne. S. josniarinifdlia, part of, Koch Conim., p. 49. 

 The Sexes. Tlie 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 originally described, and both sexes are figured, in 



Sal. {fob. Both are described in Willd. Sp. PI., and figured in Hayne Abbild. 

 Engravings. Hayne Abbild., 1. 186. ; Eng. Bot., t. 1365. ; Sal. Wob., No 87. ; oxixfig. 1320. ; and^. 87. 



in p. 1618. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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-acuiiinate. Style 

 about as long as the linear divided stigmas. Bracteas short, 

 villous. {Hook. Br. 17,, ed. 3.) "Native of moist sandy or 

 turfy places in Sweden, (Tcrmany, and the northern parts of ^ 

 Britain ; flowering in April. Pursh, finding it likewise ' in wet 

 meadows and mountain swamps from Pennsj'lvania to Ca- 

 rolina,' presumes that it has been imported thence into 

 England. Our specimens, however, accord exactly with 

 the Finland ones of Linnaeus, and the German one of 

 Ehrhart, so that it seems common to both quarters of the 

 world." (Smith in Recs^s Ct/c/o.) Flowering in April and 

 May. A slender upright shrub, 2 ft. or 3 ft. high ; allied in 

 its habits (silky silvery foliage, and short ovate catkins) to 

 S. angustifolia P Wulf., Borrer, Hooker ; but much more 

 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, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, hardly ever more than i in. broad at most, and from 1 in. to 2 in. 

 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. 



J* J; 49. S. angustifo'lia Boner, Hooker, fWulf. The narrow-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Borrer and Hook, in Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2., p. 417. ; ? Wulf in Jacq. Coll., 3. 48. 

 Synonymes. S. arbi'iscula Smith Fl. Brit., p. KIjO., Eng. Bot., t. 1366., Rees's CyclopceJia, No. 6.5., 



Eng. Flora, 4. p. 198., exclusively ol the synonymes of Lm., perhaps of other synonyme.s, Forbes 



in Sal. yVob., No. 86., not No. 138. ; S. >osmarinif61ia a Koch Comni., p. 49. Smith, in his Eng. 



Flora, has referred S. angustif.lia IVulf. to S. incub^cea L.; and Koch has referred S. incubicea L. 



to S. >-osmarinilblia 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 tlie flowers of the male were unknown to 'lim. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1366. ; the female, Sal.;Wob., t. 86. ; out fig. 1321. ; andfig. 86. in p. 1618. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous, with minute glan- 

 dular teeth ; the } oung 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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