260 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



leaves, which have 5-8 yellow glandular teeth. Leaves lanceolate- 

 elliptical or obovate, entire or serrate, glabrous or slightly hairy 

 when young, dark green and shining above, light green and glaucous 

 beneath. Catkins at apex of short leafy shoots ; scale of catkins 

 2-coloured, brown or blackish at apex. Stamens 2. Anthers yellow. 

 Nectary projecting above the mass of the ovary. Style elongated. 

 Stigmas divaricate. 

 Alpine rocks and pastures. June to August. 



Distribution. Carpathians, Alps, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Norway, 

 Siberia, Greenland. British. 



Salix Mysinites L. 



A low, much-branched shrub, often quite procumbent though 

 not creeping, and sometimes a foot or more high. Leaves small, 

 orbicular, ovate or lanceolate, bright green, with prominent veins, 

 and finely toothed. With long silky hairs when young, afterwards 

 glabrous. Catkins cylindrical, I inch longer flower, ij-2 inches 

 when in fruit, on short leafy shoots. 



Damp places in the mountains. June to August. 



Distribution. Alps, Central Pyrenees, Norway, Northern and 

 Arctic Asia and America. Scotland and Co. Sligo. 



Salix phylicifolia L. 



A shrub with very variable foliage. Young leaves often downy, 

 becoming glabrous when old ; leaves ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 

 1-2 inches long, pointed, with rather prominent veins above, often 

 toothed,' glaucous or whitish underneath. Catkins slender, the 

 males nearly sessile with a few broad bracts at the base ; the 

 females shortly stalked, with more leafy bracts, 1-2 inches long 

 when in fruit. 



Mountain woods, thickets, and near streams. June. 



Distribution. Alps, Central Pyrenees, and other mountains of 

 Central and Southern Europe. Arctic Europe and Asia, N. Britain. 



Salix repens L. Creeping Willow. 



A low creeping shrub, the stems rooting at the base and ascend- 

 ing to a foot or more in height when in rich soil. Leaves more or 

 less silky white when young, oblong or lanceolate, but very variable, 

 usually entire, about ij inches long. Catkins cylindrical, about J 

 inch long, and sessile when in flower, afterwards shortly peduncled 

 and an inch long. 



Moors, heaths, and wet mountain-sides. From sea-level in 

 England to the sub-alpine region on the Continent. April, May. 



Distribution. Arctic, Northern, and Central Europe, and 

 occasionally in the mountains of Southern Europe. Russian Asia. 



