366 DIOECIA — DIANDRIA. [SaliJ:. 



* 14. Nigricaiites. JBorr. A group as difficiilt to define as are 

 the species which compose it. Many approach the last division 

 verij nearly, having more or less ovate or obovate leaves, but 

 they are less tvrinkled, and, whe?i dry, generally become black, 



whatever care may be taken in the preservation of them Shrubs 



loith long branches, or small trees. Germens glabrous or silky, 

 stalked. Style more or less bifid. 



39. S. cotinifolia, Sm, (^Quince -leaved Sallow); leaves ellipti- 

 cal-orbicular obsoletely toothed slightly downy above, more so 

 glaucous and veiny beneath, germens stalked lanceolato-acumi- 

 nate, style bifid, stigmas roundish notched. E. Bot. t. 1403. 

 Salict. JVob.p. 227, t. 114. 



Norfolk; and near Glenluce and Forfar, Scotland. Fl. April, Maj'. Tj . 

 — A low shrub, with leaves 2 or more inches long, shaped almost like 

 those of the g-arden Rhus Cotinus. In my plant the styles are distinctly 

 and deeply bifid, each segment bearing a short, emarginate stigma. 



40. S. Mrta, Sm. (Jiairy -branched Sallowi) ; ''stem erect, 

 branches densely hairy, leaves elliptic-heart-shaped pointed 

 finely crenate downy on both sides, stipules half-heart-shaped 

 flat-toothed nearly glabrous." Sm. E. Bot.t. 1404. Salict. Wob. 

 p. 225, t. 113. 



Norfolk. Castle Eden, Yorkshire. Fl. April, May. Tj . — A small ^?-ee, 

 in many respects approaching the preceding: the leaves, however, in my 

 specimens, are less broad at the base, or as Mr Forbes jnstly observes, 

 less heart-shaped. The fertile catkin was unknown to Sir J. E. Smith, 

 as it was to the author of the " Salictum," till after the plate had been 

 engraved. But I have a fertile branch from Mr Borrer, as well as from 

 Mr Backhouse; in which, as in the preceding species, the style is bifid, 

 though only for a very short way, bearing capitate emarginate stigmas. 



41. S. nigricans, Sm. (dark-leaved Willow); "leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate acute crenate glabrous with a downy rib above glau- 

 cous beneath, stamens 2 thrice the length of the hairy scales, 

 germens lanceolate downy on a short downy stalk." Sin. — E. 

 Bot.t. 1213. Salict. Wob. p. 73, t. 37. — S. phylicifolia, j3. Linn. 

 (Sin.) 



Fens, osier-grounds, woods, and thickets. Wrongay fen, Norfolk, and 

 near Shobden Court, Herefordshire. Fl. April. Tj . — A large shrub, of 

 which it does not appear that the fertile catkins have been found in 

 Britain. 



42. S. Andersonidna, Sm. (green Mountaiii Sallow); leaves el- 

 liptic-oblong acute faintly crenato-dentate the upper ones chief- 

 ly subpubescent all glaucous beneath, stipules small sub-ovate, 

 branches minutely downy, germens stalked linear-subulate gla- 

 brous, style elongated bifid at the extremity, stigmas bifid, scales 

 fringed with a few long silky hairs. E. Bot. t. 2343. Salict. 

 Wob. p. 217, t. 109. 



Sides of streams, among the Breadalbane mountains. Banks of the 

 Tyne, below Newcastle; Mr Winch, Fl. May, June.T^. 



