3G0 DIOECJA — DIANDUIA. [Suiix. 



with short soft hairs : in a young state, even silvery beneath. The cat- 

 kins are scarcely an inch long, rather lax ; much smaller in my speci- 

 mens and in the /iff. in Salict. Wob, than in E. BoL, and remarkable 

 for the lengthened stalks of the germens and dense silky covering of 

 the latter. I have never seen native specimens.' 



* 7. Rosmarinifolise. Borr. Small, erect shrubs. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, entire, or loith extremely minute, fjlandular teeth. 

 Catkins short, lax. Germens stalked, silky. 



18. S. rosmarinifolia, h. {Rosemary-leaved Willow); loaves 

 linear-lanceolate silky, the young ones especially, quite entire 

 or with a h\v very minute glandular teeth, catkins shortly ob- 

 long curved lax, germens stalked silky lanceolate-acuminate, 

 style about as long as the linear divided stigmas, scales short 

 villous. E. Bot. t. 1365. Salict. Wob. p. 173, t. 87. 



Found by Sherard. Sent hy Mr Dickson to Mr Crowe. (Sm.) Fl. 

 Apr. T2 . — A slender, upright shrub, 2 — 3 feet high, with silky leaves, 

 nearly glabrous in the adult plant. Whole plant, when dry, turning 

 almost black, as does the following. 



19, S. angustifoUa, Wulf. ? (lillle Tree Willow); leaves lin- 

 ear-lanceolate nearly glabrous with minute glandular teeth, the 

 young leaves silky glaucous beneath, catkins ovate erect, ger- 

 mens ovato-acuminate densely silky stalked, style about as long 

 as the broad erect entire stigmas, scales very villous nearly as 

 long as the young germens. — S. Arbuscula, Sm. E. Bot. t. 

 1366. Salict. Wob. p. 171, t. 86. (not of continental authors.) 



Highlands of Scotland. Clova mountains. Near Dumfries. Apr. T^ . 

 — Mr Forbes has well observed that the present is closely allied to the 

 last, and he is even disposed to consider them the same ; and it is cer- 

 tainly a matter of surprise, that two plants so much resembling each 

 other, should be placed so far apart as they are in E. FL Still I agree 

 with Mr Borrer in thinking them distinct, though the difference lies 

 almost entirely in their yermens ; these are shorter in the present plant, 

 with denser, less glossy and less truly silky hairs, with ovate and quite 

 entire stiymas, and more shaggy scales. Although this may be, as Sir 

 J. E. Smith assures us, the S. Arbuscula of Linn. Herb., yet Mr Bor- 

 rer, on a recent examination, has come to a different opinion, and the 

 plant is quite at variance with the Arbuscida of other continental authors, 

 and with the figures both of Linnieus and Wahlenberg, which repre- 

 sent the leaves distinctly serrated. This latter is well figured in the 

 Salictum Woburnense, t. 138, having been introduced to the gardens 

 at Woburn by Lord John Russell, from Switzerland. The name of 

 our plant, I have, at the suggestion of Mr Borrer, changed to S. angus- 

 tifoUa, as being, probably, the plant of Wulfen. 



* 8. Fusca?. Borr. Small shrubs, with generally procumbent 

 stems and leaves bettvten elliptical and lanceolate, mostly silky 

 beneath, nearly entire. Catkins ovate or cylindrical. Germens 

 silky, stalked. — The habit of S. iusca rather approaches the 

 Monandrae group). 



» Dr Lindley lajs that this is not a British, nor even a European species. 



