1264 SALIX. [CLASS XXII. ORDER L. 
young shoots slightly pubescent ; leaves naked, flat, broadly obovate, 
narrowed at the base, slightly toothed, glaucescent beneath, upper 
ones acute; stipules small, concave; catkins loose ; germens stalked, 
bluntish, naked in the lower part; style as long as the linear divided 
stigma.” — Borrer. 
English Botany Suppl. t. 2749.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. 
vol. i. p. 888.—S. arbuscula, var.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 235. 
A small tree or shrub, with crooked spreading branches, with 
shining twigs, of a greyish green colour, often tinged with brown. 
Leaves from one to one and a half inches long, of a bright shining 
green above, more or less glaucous beneath, of a thin texture, with 
minute glandular teeth, or entire, quite smooth, the footstalk slightly 
downy. Stipules small, ovate, or half cordate, mostly concave, the 
edges and disk glandulous. Catkins about an inch long when in 
flower, on thick hairy stalks, with a few small floral leaves, soon 
falling away, flowers loosely set. Scale oblong, mostly rounded, 
silky, black in the upper half. Germen rounded, and bulging at the 
base, contracted in the middle, and again rather enlarged towards 
the somewhat blunt apex, the lower part naked, the upper beset with 
white appressed shining hairs, its stalk more or less hairy, about half 
as long as the scale. Style about half as long as the germen, naked. 
Stigmas scarcely as long as the style, deeply cleft into spreading 
linear segments, pale, soon turning brown. (See English Botany 
Suppl. t. 2749.) 
Habitat.—Killin, in Breadalbane, Scotland. 
Shrub or low tree ; flowering in April. 
“ This Willow resembles S. laurina in the figure of the leaves; 
but that plant differs by its more acute angled ramifications, its ma- 
hogany coloured twigs densely cottony while young, the abundance 
of the short appressed hairs on both surfaces of the young leaves, 
the more subulate germen white all over, with cottony hairs, and the 
shorter style with short stigmas, the segments of which usually adhere 
together.”— Borrer. 
51. S radi'cans, Smith. (Fig. 1521.) Tea leaved Willow. Catkins 
leafy at the base, becoming elevated on elongated stalks ; capsules 
lanceolate, downy, with an ovate base, stalked ; style elongated ; 
stigmas entire, or bifid; leaves obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, smooth; 
glaucous beneath, the margin with wavy serratures. 
Hooker, Britsh Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 368.—S. phylicifolia.— 
English Botany, t. 1958.—English Flora, vol. iv. p 173.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 91. t. 46.—S. arbuscula, var—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 235. 
A low spreading shrub, with brown or purplish recumbent 
branches, taking root from the joimts. Leaves mostly elliptic lanceo- 
late, about two inches long, and less than one broad, on short stalks, 
smooth, a dark green above, glaucous beneath, and quite smooth, 
