1268 SALIX. [CLASS XXII. ORDER 1. 
Catkins on short stalks, bearing several small lanceolate leaves. 
Scales oblong, obtuse, hairy, dark in the upper half, pale at the base. 
Capsule lanceolate, with an ovate base, downy, on a short hairy stalk. 
Style smooth, rather longer than the pale entire stigmas. 
Habitat.--Scotland, MZ. G. Anderson. Teesdale, Yorkshire. 
Shrub; flowering in April. 
This species, it is observed by Mr. Borrer, is nearly allied to S. 
Weigeliana, and still more nearly to the following, S. Croweana. 
58. S. Crowea'na, Smith. (Fig. 1527.) Crowean Willow. Catkins 
nearly sessile ; capsules ovate lanceolate, downy; style long; stigmas 
ovate, obtuse; stamens, combined below; leaves elliptic, slightly 
serrated, nearly smooth, glaucous beneath ; stipules half heart-shaped, 
rounded, crenated, often wanting. 
English Botany, t. 1146.—English Flora, vol 4. p. 192.~Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 370.—Salict. Wob. p. 103. t. 52.—S. 
arbuscula, var..—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 235. 
A bushy shrub, about five feet high, with smooth spreading brown- 
ish yellow branches. eaves elliptic lanceolate, dark green, and 
nearly smooth above, glaucous beneath, with a prominent mid-rib, the 
margin slightly serrated, curled or recurved at the point, the footstalk 
short, broad. Stipules small, half heart-shaped, obtuse, crenated, 
often wanting. Catkins on short stalks, mostly bearing two small 
floral leaves. Scales oblong, hairy, black inthe upper half. Stamens 
with the filaments combined a greater or less height from the base. 
Capsules lanceolate, with an ovate base, downy, or smooth, on a short 
stalk. Style long. Stigmas entire, ovate, obtuse, becoming cloven, 
persistent. 
Habitat.—Swampy meadows in Norfolk, and several parts of the 
North of England. 
Shrub ; flowering in May. 
This species is remarkable in having the filaments more or less 
combined, a circumstance which Mr. Borrer, as stated in the British 
Flora, considers to be butan accidental monstrosity in that individual, 
from which all the plants that he has examined have originated. Mr. 
Forbes has described and figured in the “ Salictum Wobornensis ;” 
the barren catkins changing into fertile ones, with the style and 
stigma perfect, as in the fertile florets. This remarkable metamorphose 
of parts has also been observed by Mr. Borrer in 8. oleifolia ; and 
Sir J. E. Smith, under S. cinerea, says, “a very curious specimen, 
gathered at Duckenfield, near Stockport, Cheshire, by Mr. Robert 
Gee, bears a monoecious catkin, the lower half of which consists 
of perfect germens, with their styles and stigmas, the upper of a few 
misshapen bodies, with apparently perfect stamens at the top.” The 
change of stamens into style and stigma, and then bearing fruit, is 
extremely curious, and well worth the minutest investigation; the 
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