OLASS XXII. ORDER 1.] SALIX. 1249 
A shrub, from one to two feet high, with dark brown shining bark. 
Leaves oblong lanceolate, acute, entire, white and silky when young, 
becoming green above, and reticulated with veins beneath, very white 
and silky, footstalks short, thick, channeled. Stipules mostly want- 
ing. Cutkins at first sessile when in fruit, elevated on a short stalk, 
bearing two or three small leaves, the barren ones short, thick, ovate, 
the fertile ones cylindrical, about an inch and half long Scales 
ovate, acute, blackish, copiously bearded. Capsule sessile, lanceolate, 
or somewhat ovate, downy, with a long slender style, and linear, 
entire, or bifid stigmas. 
Habitat Highland Mountains of Scotland, especially those of 
Breadalbane and Clove. 
Shrub ; flowering in June. 
26. S. Stuartia'na, Smith. (Fig. 1500.) Small leaved Shaggy 
Willow. Catkins sessile when in fruit, on a short stalk; capsules 
sessile, lanceolate, very woolly; style long, slender ; stigmas capil- 
lary, deeply divided ; scales acute, very silky ; leaves ovate lanceolate, 
acute, nearly entire, shaggy above, silky beneath, woolly. 
English Botany, t. 2586.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 203.—Salict 
Wob. p. 143. t. 72.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 363.— 
S limosa, var.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 237.—S. Lapponum, Walker. 
A shrub, from two to three feet high or more, much branched, the 
bark dark brown, smooth, silky at the top when young. Leaves much 
smaller than those of the last species, lanceolate, acutely pointed, 
entire, or slightly waved or toothed, sometimes they are ovate lanceo- 
late, a greyish green above, and clothed with glossy silky hairs, the 
under side white, densely silky or cottony, with obscure veins, and a 
prominent reddish mid-rib, footstalk slender, shaggy. Catkins sessile, 
ovate oblong, becoming elevated on short leafy stalks. Scales ovate, 
acute, almost black, silky, and densely bearded. Capsule sessile, 
ovate oblong, or lanceolate, clothed with woolly pubescence, crowned 
with a slender style as long as itself. Stigmas filiform, divided to the 
base, very long, recurved. 
Habitat—Breadalbane Mountains, Scotland—Rev. Dr. Stuart. 
Near the upper end of the burn of Fioselarig. 
Shrub ; flowering in August. 
Of this species it is remarked by Sir W. J. Hooker, “] regret that, 
often as JI have visited the Breadaloane Mountains, I have not been 
able to distinguish S. Stuartina from the preceding” (S. arenaria ). 
Group 12. Viminalis. Borr. Koch. Trees of more or less con- 
siderable size, with long pliant branches and lanceolate leaves. 
Germens nearly sessile, hairy or silky, their styles elongated, their 
stigmas linear, mostly entire. 
27. S. vimina'lis, Linn. (Fig. 1501.) Common Osier. Catkins 
sessile, with bracteas at the base; capsules lanceolate, downy, nearly 
