6c6 DIOECIA DIANDRIA, 



repens 1 3. SALIX foliis integerrimis lanceolatis utrinque fuB- 

 pilot's, caule repente. Sp. pi, 1447. (^^^« ^^* 

 1 3§1. /. 6. i^^»^. Fkr. lappon. t. 8. /. jR. qiias pro 

 Si. fufca dcfignatur, noftram bene reprsfentat.) 



Little creeping Willow. Jnglis. 



This is frequent in moorifh groundS) heaths, and 

 fometimes in woods. 7^. V, 

 . This feldom rifts above fix or eight inches high, 

 the twigs are dark, red, and decumbent. The 

 leaves are generally oval, but are fometimes 

 lengthened fo as to become lanceolate-, their 

 general fize about 2-5ths of an inch long, and 

 I -5th wide, often lefs than than. They are 

 fmooth on both fides, except at their firlt erup- 

 tion, when they are (lightly hairy, but particu- 

 larly fo underneath. This villofity foon wears 

 cff, and the upper furface becomes of a dark 

 green colour, the under one glaucous : the up- 

 per ones are alternate, the lower ones nearly op- 

 pofite, and fupported on fiiort footftalks. The 

 catkins arc lateral, oval, and numerous ; the 

 fcalcs brown and hairy, the filaments and antbe- 

 r^e yellow, the capfules white and woolly at firft, 

 but reddilh and almoft fmooth when ripe. We 

 have never yet been able todifcover any effential 

 difference between this and S. fujca LtJh and it 

 is probable that S. rofmarinifoUa may be only a 

 variety of the fame. See Halkr hiji. n, 1644. 



Foliis 



