280 DIGECIA. DIAND. 



broad, bright, very shining leaves, and its broad sterile catkins, with 

 numerous crowded yellow stam. Smith says that the small yellow 

 glands upon the footstalks of the leaves cause the agreeable fra~ 

 grance of this plant. 



13. S. nigrica?is (dark broad-leaved Willow}, leaves mostly 

 obovate acute crenato-serrate glaucous and often downy be- 

 neath, germens pedicellate lanceolalo-subulate very silky, styles 

 elongated, stigmas mostly entire, scales villous. E. B. t. 1213. 



HAB. Banks of the Esk, I). Don. Craigcrook, Edinb. (fertile plant), 

 Maugh. Fl. April, May. J? . 



Leaves dark green, turning black when dry, very variable in size, but 

 always more or less elliptical or obovate, veiny. - Catkins rather 

 short. Germens long, extremely silky. Scales brownish or almost 

 black at the tips. I have some plants from Switzerland whose 

 leaves are quite silky beneath, and a series of specimens gradually 

 less so, till they have the common nearly glabrous appearance. 



14. S. biwlor (shining dark green Willow), " leaves elliptical 

 acute denticulato-serrate smoothisb glaucous beneath, ger- 

 mens pedicellate lanceolate silky," Sm. E. B. t. 1806. 



HAB. Banks of the Clyde, a little above Glasgow, Maugh. Banks 

 of the Esk, D. Don. Fl. April, May. ^ . . 



I have never seen this species j but the characters do not appear at 

 all to distinguish it from the last. " Grows in an upright wand- 

 like form, with dark mahogany-coloured stems," Sm. Germens and 

 scctles, according to the fig. as above quoted, exactly as in S.nigricans. 



15. S. petwlaru (dark long-leaved Willow), leaves lanceolate 

 serrated glabrous glaucous and often silky beneath, " germens 

 pedicellate ovate silky, stigmas sessile 2-lobed," Sm. E. B. 

 t. 1147. 



HAB. Fossil Marsh, N. side of the canal, D. Don. Marshes, Angus- 

 shire, G. Don. FL April. ^ . 



Of this I am unacquainted with the germens, which, according to 

 Smith, are much shorter than in the two last species, while at the 

 same time the leaves are longer and truly lanceolate : they, how- 

 ever, turn almost black in drying. 



1C. S. radicans (rooting-lranc/ied Willow), leaves obovato- or 

 elliptico- lanceolate with often wavy serratures glabrous glau- 

 cous beneath, germens lanceolate pedicellate very silky as well 

 as the scales, style elongated, stigma sentire or bifid. S. ra- 

 dicans, Sm. Fl.'Brit.p. 1053. S.phylicifolia, E.B. t. 1958; 

 not of Wahl. or Limi. 



HAB. Scotland, Diclcson. Banks of the river Nith towards Sanquha v , 

 Maugh. Fl. May. T? . 



My specimens are from Sir James Smith, but they do not at all accord 

 in the germens with the S. plnjlicifolia of Wahl., which that author 

 considers to be the same as Linnaeus's. He describes and figures 

 them as subulate and glabrous, and expressly says he never knew 

 them to be otherwise. Unfortunately Linnaeus himself says nothing 1 



