CHAP. Clir. ^ALICA^CEiE. .S'a'LIX. 1537 



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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. 

 Fl.y 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. 



-" S. /: 1 rnliidris ; S. f. var. « Hook: Br. FL, ed. 2. ; S. fusca Smith Eng. 

 Bot., t.'^IOGO., Eiig. FL, iv. p. 210., Forbes in Sal. Woh,, No.83. ; S. 

 repens KocJi fi Koch Comm., p. 47. ; and our Jig. 83. in p. 1618. — Stem 

 decumbent below, then upright, much branched. Leaves elliptic 

 lanceolate. {Id.) Mr. Borrer is disposed to deem the S. fusca Smith 

 * different from the S. fusca 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 !)im." {Hooker.) " The 

 plant" of Smith "itself is usually a small procumbent shrub, with 

 rather long straight branches ; but varying exceedingly, acconiing 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." {Id.) 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 Botam/ and the Salictum Woburncnse. Tiicre 

 are plants at Woburn Abbev, Henfield, and Flitwick House. 



J; S. / 2 repens ; S. f. ^ Hook. Br. FL, ed. 2. ; .V. repens Lin. Sp. PL, 

 144.7. (Smith), JVilld. Sp. PL, iv. p. 693., at least in part, Smith in 

 Bees's Cijclo., No. 100., Eng. Bot., t. 183., Eng. FL, iv. p. 209., 

 Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 84., our/s^.84. in p. 1618., ? Hayne Abbild., 

 p. 241.t. 183., ? Pitrsh FL Amer^, ii. p. 610. ; .S". repens 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 

 silk)' 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 i in. to ^in. long, elliptical or broadly lanceolate, 

 somewhat revolute; nearly or quite entire, veiny, bluntish, with a 

 minute straight poi^t ; the upper surface dark green, glabrous; 

 under surface glaucous, densely silky when young. Footstalks short 

 and broad, frequently down} . Catkins appearing before the leaves, 

 numerous, and attaining 1 in. in length, in the fertile plant, when 

 the seeds are ripe. Both sexes are described in Eiig. Fkrra, and 

 both are figured in Eng. Bot., in Sal. JVob., and in Hayne Abbild., if 

 the latter engraving belongs to this willow. There are plants at 

 Woburn Abbey and in the Goldworth Arboretum. 



-* S. f. 3 prostrdta ; S. f. var, y Hook. Br. FL, ed. 2. ; S. prostrata Smith 



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