1270 SALIX. [CLASS XXII, ORDER 1, 
half, fringed with silky hairs. Capsule lanceolate, smooth, on a 
smooth short stalk. Style rather long, bifid above. Stigmas spread- 
ing, bifid. 
Habitat—Highland Valleys of Scotland; Glen Tarfe, near Fort 
Augustus, Inverness-shire and Perthshire. 
Shrub ; flowering in April, and sometimes again at Midsummer. 
Mr. Borrer says that this beautiful and apparently distinct Willow 
bears no slight resemblance in the size, figure, and serratures of the 
leaves to Phillyrea latifolia. In the arrangement of the genus it may 
stand between S. bicolor and S. Dicksoniuna, in both of which the 
leaves are, for the most part, obsoletely serrated, and of a figure ap- 
proaching to obovate, with a point. S Dicksoniana is, moreover, of 
more humble stature, and has both the germens and its stalk densely 
silky. 
61 S. Dicksonia'na, Smith, (Fig. 1530.) Broad leaved Mountain 
Willow. Catkins on short leafy stalks; capsules ovate, stalked, 
silky; style very short; stigmas ovate, obtuse ; scales oblong, purple; 
leaves elliptical, acute, slightly toothed, smooth, glaucous beneath ; 
stipules very minute; branches quite smooth. 
English Botany, t. 1390.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 196.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p. 8371.—Salict. Wob. p. 109. t. 55. £ 2.— 
S. arbuscula, var..—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 235. 
A small erect shrub, about a foot high, with smooth green branches, 
becoming brown. Leaves about an inch long, elliptic, acute, flat, 
scarcely serrated, a bright smooth green and even above, glaucous 
and finely veined beneath, the footstalk short, thick. Stipules half 
ovate, very minute, often wanting. Catkins appearing before the 
leaves, nearly sessile, with two or three small leaves at the base. 
Scales oblong, obtuse, or notched, brown or purplish, clothed and 
fringed with long silky hairs. Capsule ovate, downy, on a short 
stalk. Style short. Stigmas ovate, obtuse, thick, and yellow. 
fabitat.—Highlands of Scotland—Mr. Dickson. 
Shrub ; flowering in April. 
This is a very doubtful species, and is regarded as such both by Sir 
W. J. Hooker and Mr. Forbes; but Mr. Borrer still seems to consider 
it as a distinct species. We, however, regard its characters, as 
good as those of many other plants which are considered as species, 
aud though we have followed Mr. Borrer and Sir W. J. Hooker in 
our arrangement, still it does appear to us quite as reasonable to 
apply the same rules of distinction in species to this tribe of plants as 
to the others, and if reduced by their rules, the species must be 
arranged, as will be seen in our arrangement of the whole Flora, 
according to the natural orders, and as given by Koch and others, by 
which system the whole of the British plants are reduced from their 
present number to thirty, 
