OLASS XXII, ORDER 1.] SALIX. 1271 
Group 16. Vaceinifolie, Borr. Small, procumbent, or rarely erect 
shrubs, with leaves bearing a considerable resemblance to those of 
a Vaccinium, opaque, glaucous beneath. Germens downy, sessile. 
62. S. vaccinifo'lia, Walk. Ess. (Fig. 1531.) Bilberry-leaved Willow. 
Catkins on short leafy stalks; capsules ovate, conical, downy, sessile; 
style cleft; stigmas bifid; leaves lanceolate, ovate, smooth and even 
above, glaucous and silky beneath ; stems decumbent. 
English Botany, t. 2341.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 194.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 871—Salict. Wob. p. 118. t 57.— 
S. prunifolia, var.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 237. 
A low shrub, with decumbent or trailing branches, slender, brown, 
silky when young. eaves lanceolate ovate, green, smooth and even 
above, glaucous, and clothed with very fine silky hairs beneath, the 
margin finely serrated, the footstalk short, silky. Stipules very 
minute,or wanting. Catkins on short silky leafy stalks’ Scales ovate, 
obtuse, or rather acute, very silky, and fringed, brown or purplish in 
the upper half. Capsules sessile, very silky, ovate, conical, with a 
short bifid style and cleft spreading stigmas. 
Habitat—Highland Mountains of Scotland; not unfrequent. 
Shrub; flowering in April. 
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A pretty little shrub, nearly allied to the three foliowing, and pro- 
bably all form but varieties of a single species. 
63. S. carina'ta, Smith. (Fig. 1532.) Folded-leaved Willow. Cat- 
kins on short leafy stalks; capsules ovate, conical, downy, sessile ; 
style short; stigmas emarginate; leaves ovate, serrated, glabrous, 
glaucous beneath, and frequently folded, so as to form a keel; stem 
erect, with spreading branches. 
English Botany, t. 1363.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 197.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 372.—Salict. Wob. p. 117. t. 59.— 
S. prunifolia, var.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 237. 
An erect shrub, about two feet high, with straight nearly smooth 
brownish green branches. Leaves ovate lanceolate, more than an 
inch Jong, dark green, and numerously serrated, with minute teeth, 
glaucous beneath, smooth on both sides, often recurved, and folded, 
so as to form a keeled back with the mid-rib, of a rigid texture, the 
footstalks short, thick. Stipules very minute, mostly wanting. Cut- 
kins on short leafy stalks. Scales ovate, obtuse, silky. Capsules 
ovate, conical, very downy, sessile. Style short. Szigmas ovate, 
spreading, entire, or notched, thick. 
Habitat. Highlands of Scotland. 
Shrub ; flowering in April and June. 
64. S. prunifo'lia, Smith. (Fig. 1533.) Plum-leaved Willow. Cat- 
kins on short leafy stalks ; capsules ovate, conical, silky, sessile; style 
short, stigmas emarginate; leaves ovate, serrated, smooth, more or 
less yeiny, glaucous beneath ; stem mostly erect, with lax branches. 
