Salix.1 DIOECIA — DIANDRIA. 4/3 



most black when dry. My Craigalleach specimens agree not only with 

 those from Lapland but also with one from the Linnaean Herb, in my 

 possession. 



67. S. procumbens, Forbes, (^smooth-leaved alpine Willow); 

 leaves oval (rarely acute) obscurely serrated shining- quite gla- 

 brous, gerruens nearly sessile lanceolate very silky, style very 

 short cleft almost to the base, stigmas short bifid obtuse. Sal. 

 Wob. p. \'2\, t. &l. E. Bat. Suppl. t. 2753— /S'. Icevis, Br. Fl. 



ed. 1 . p. 432. 



Highlands of Scotland ; Glen Coe. Breadalbane mountains, 1801. 

 Brae-Riach one of the Cairngorura range. FL June. Tj . — A low shrub, 

 bearing a considerable resemblance to the last, but I think truly distinct. 

 I have long had from Mr Winch both cult, and wild specimens. This, 

 in all its parts, especially the foliage, catkins and germens, is twice the 

 size of the preceding, with tlatter leaves, less serrated at the margin and 

 drying to a yellowish-brown colour. The germen, style and stigma, too, 

 will be found to differ from those oi S. mj/rsiidles, and the scales are much 

 longer and more hairy. It is a beautiful shrub, and has been cultivated 

 for years, in the Edinb. Bot. Garden, where it retains all its characters. 

 Tliis seems to be the S. retusa, With. Bot. Arr. ed. 8. v. ii, p. 49. 

 loith a Jig. 



* 18. Herbacese. Borr. A mimite shrub ; remarkable for its small, 



few-jlowered catkins. 



68. S. herbdcea, L. (^least Willow); leaves orbicular serrated 

 glabrous shining veined, germens sessile lanceolate glabrous, 

 style and stigmas bifid, catkins of few flowers. E. Bot. t. 1907. 

 Salict. Wob. p. 1 2S, t. 62. 



Snowdon and other Welsh mountains. On Skiddaw. Plentiful 

 upon the summits of all the Highland mountains. FL June. T^ . — The 

 least of our British species ; though not so small as is generally suppos- 

 ed, for its stetns divide and creep below the surface of the earth, scarcely 

 rising an inch above. In the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh it has 

 acquired a prostrate, woody stem, 2 — -3 feet long and nearly as thick as 

 the little finger. Dr Graham. 



* 19. HastatEe. Borr. Loiv shrubs ; with very broad leaves and 



exceedingly shaggy and silky catkins. 



69. S. hastuta, L. {Apple-leaved Willow); leaves broadly el- 

 liptical waved thin and crackling quite glabrous glaucous beneath, 

 stipules large heart-shaped about as long as the footstalks, ger- 

 mens on a short stalk lanceolate acuminated glabrous, styles 

 elongated, stigmas cloven, scales very shaggy with long silky 

 hairs. Salict. Wob. p. 69, t. 33. — S. malijolia, Sni. FL Brit, 

 p. 1053. E. BoL t. 1617. Salict Wob. p. 71, t. 36. 



Scotland. Sands of Barrie, near Dundee. Norfolk? F/. May. '^ . 

 — 2 — 6 ft. high. Remarkable for its broadly elliptical, shortly acumi- 

 nated leaves, large stipules and very silky or shaggy compact catkins, 

 about IJ inch long. Mr Borrer assures me that .S*. malifoUa, Sin. is 

 only a state of S. hastata, Linn., with a more attenuated base to its 

 leaf, and this opinion is confirmed by Mr Forbes, who received from 



