





CHAP. CIII. 



SALICA CE^E. .S'A^LIX. 



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Char., $c. Leaves orbicular, somewhat elliptical, obtuse, entire, 

 coriaceous, with reticulated veins, nearly glabrous; glaucous beneath. 

 Ovary sessile, downy. (Smith E. F.) The young foliage is often floe- 

 cose. (Br. FL, ed. 2.) A native of England, and the high 

 mountains in Wales and Scotland ; flowering from May to 

 July. Koch has stated its European places of growth to be 

 as follows : Moist rocks, or other moist places, of the/ 

 highest mountains above the limit of perpetual snow, in 

 Piedmont, Savoy, Switzerland, the Pyrenees, Germany, 

 Carpathia, Transylvania, Britain, and Lapland. Hooker has 

 remarked (Br. F/., ed. 2.) that he possesses S. reticulata, 

 obtained from Arc:ic America, and having long silky hairs 

 on both surfaces of the leaf. Mackay has not inserted the species in 

 the Flora Hibernica. Lightfoot, as quoted by Smith, has noted the kind 

 of soil in which it occurs on many of the Scottish highland mountains 

 to be micaceous. " Larger than S. herbacea, with stout, woody, procumbent 

 stems and branches, either mantling the alpine rocks, or spreading on the 

 ground in large patches. Leaves 3 from each l>ud, on long slender foot- 

 stalks, without stipules ; alternate, nearly orbicular, or somewhat elliptical, 

 1 in. broad, firm, coriaceous though deciduous, entire, with an occasional 

 notch at the end ; the upper surface wrinkled, of a deep shining green ; 

 the under surface very glaucous or whitish, beautifully reticulated with 

 abundance of prominent veins, now and then somewhat silky. Catkins 

 solitary at the end of the same branch, above the leaves;" of a purplish 

 red colour, as are the buds. The veins on the under surface of the leaf are 

 of a purplish colour. (LimuEiis.) This is a most remarkable species, totally 

 different from any other; and it ought not to be wanting in any collection. 

 Smith has deemed it akin to S. herbacea. Koch has associated the two in 

 the same group. In its rounded wrinkled leaves, villous when young, in 

 its buds, and in its branches, it bears much similarity to S. caprea, though 

 it is widely different in its inflorescence. There are plants in the arboretum 

 of Messrs. Loddiges, in the Fulham Nursery, and in the Goldworth Ar- 

 boretum. 



A pp. i. Reticiddta described, but not yet introduced. 



S. vestlta Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p 610., Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 76., differs from S. 

 reticulata, in having the under side of its leaves clothed with long silky hairs. Pursh calls it a very 

 elegant species. It is a native of Labrador. 



Group xiv. Glaucce Borrer. 



Small, upright, with soft silky Leaves. 



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Stamens 2 to a flower" Ovary very downy, or silky, sessile, Plants small 

 shrubs, most of them upright ; all, or most of them, remarkable for their 

 foliage, which consists of leaves that are oblong-lanceolate, soft, hairy, silky, 

 and, in most, white and cottony on the under surface. The kinds are very 

 closely akin, each among the rest. (Hook. Br. FL, ed. 2., adapted.) Only 

 S. glauca L., S. arenaria L., and S. Stuartidna Smith, are associated together 

 under the above characteristics in Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2. Of the kinds 

 brought together below, us agreeing more or less in the quality of similarity, 

 Mr. Borrer has indicated S. claeagnifolia Forbes (elaeagnoides Schlcicher), S. 

 glauca L., S. sericea Villars, S. Lapponum L., S. arenaria L., S. arenaria L. 

 ? var., S. leucophylla Schlcicher ; and S. Stuartidna Smith. 



* 60. S. L.EAGNoV DBS Schlcicher. The Elaeagnus-like Willow. 



Identification. SchkU'h. Cat. ; Scringe Sal. Helv., p. !)1. ; both quoted by Koch in Comm., n. 5f>. 



