DICECIA-DIANJDRIA. 



5. & Forbiana, branches erect ; leaves alternate, with small 

 stipulas, lanceolate-oblong, with shallow serratures, smooth, 

 rounded at the base, glaucous beneath ; stamen 1 ; style nearly 

 as long as the linear divided stigmas. Basket Osier* 



Hob. Banks of Wooler Water, above Wooler. April. 



A bushy shrub, a with upright, slender, smooth twigs, very 

 flexible and tough, of a greyish yellow hue, highly es- 

 teemed, and much cultivated for the finer kinds of basket- 

 work." 



* * Leaves all shaggy, woolly or silky. 



6. S. argentea^ stem upright ; leaves elliptical, entire, some- 

 what revolute, with a recurved point, rather downy above, silky 

 and shining beneath, as well as the branches ; germen ovate- 

 lanceolate, silky, its silky stalk nearly equal to the linear- oblong 

 scale ; style not longer than the stigmas. Silky Sand Willow. 



Hob. The sea-shoie in loose sand. I have a specimen col- 

 lected in this neighbourhood, but I have omitted to 

 mark the station. May. 



The leaves are alternate, about an inch long, and half as 

 much in breadth, covered underneath with close satin-like 

 silky hairs, which give them a remarkably brilliant silvery 

 appearance. 



7. S.prostrata, stem prostrate, with elongated straight branches ; 

 leaves elliptic-oblong, convex, somewhat toothed, with a curved 

 point, glaucous, silky and veiny beneath ; stipulas minute ; ger- 

 men stalked, ovate, silky ; style shorter than the stigmas. Pros- 

 trate Willow. 



Hab. On heaths frequent. Murton craigs. Coldingham 

 moor. In the bog at Mountfair, Berwickshire. April. 



8. S. repens, stem depressed, with short upright branches ; 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate, straight, somewhat pointed, nearly en- 

 tire, almost naked above, glaucous and silky beneath ; stipulas 

 none ; germen stalked, ovate, downy ; capsules smooth. Dwarf 

 Willow. 



Hab. Bogs on heaths. Longridge dean, plentiful. May. 



This and the preceding have been confidently pronounced 

 varieties of the same species, by some botanists of de- 



