CLASS XX1I, ORDER 1. ] SALIX. 12738 
An erect bushy shrub, about two feet high, with numerous short 
purplish leafy branches, hairy when young. Leaves a thick rigid 
texture, veiny, of a greyish green on both sides, and quite smooth, or 
scattered over with a few hairs, elliptic ovate, sometimes almost 
orbicular, and in the variety obovate lanceolate, with a short acute 
point, the margin finely serrated, the footstalk short, stout. Stipules 
somewhat ovate, toothed, smooth, of variable size. Catkins loosely 
flowered, ovate, on a long stalk, naked above, leafy at the base. 
Scales ovate, notched, brown, downy. Capsules sessile, or on a short 
stalk, lanceolate, with an ovate base, downy. Style rather long, 
bifid, with linear cleft stigmas, 
Habitat Highland Mountains of Scotland, rare; Craigalleach, 
Brae-Riach, Clove Mountains ; 6. Craigalleach. 
Shrub ; flowering in June. 
This forms a low shrub, with a thick much branching stem, and its 
thick glossy green leaves frequently remain withered upon the 
branches until the following year, and the flowers appear when the 
plant is in full leaf. The whole plant becomes almost black in 
drying. 
67. S. procum'bens, Forbes. (Fig. 1536.) Smooth leaved Alpine 
Willow Catkins on long leafy stalks; capsules lanceolate, with an 
ovate base, nearly sessile, very silky; style very short, deeply cleft ; 
stigmas short, bifid, obtuse; leaves oval (rarely acute), obscurely 
serrated, shining, quite glabrous. 
Salict. Wob. p. 121. t. 61.—English Botany Suppl. t. 2753 — 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 473.—S. levis—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 2. p. 482.—S. retusa.— Withering, ed. 4. vol. ii. p. 
49.—S\. Myrsinites.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 238. 
A bushy shrub, about three feet high, with spreading procumbent 
branches, and stout brownish twigs, hairy when young. Leaves 
numerous, oval, or sometimes oblong, and occasionally cordate at the 
base, of a thin reddish texture, somewhat recurved, the margins 
regularly serrated, with glandular teeth, a smooth shining green, 
somewhat paler beneath, sometimes scattered over with silky hairs, 
especially beneath, footstalk very short, channeled, dilated. Stipules 
small, ovate, flat, serrated, with glandular teeth. Catkins erect, cylin- 
drical, obtuse, about two inches long, on long hairy leafy stalks. 
Scales ovate, obtuse, black, densely silky. Capsules sessile, or on a 
very short stalk, lanceolate, tapering upwards with an ovate base, 
silky. Style short, mostly cleft almost to the base. Szigmas thick, 
bifid, spreading. 
Habitat— Highlands of Scotland; Glen Coe, Breadalbane Moun- 
tains, and Brae-Riach, one of the Cairngorum range. 
Shrub ; flowering in June. 
This very beautiful species, it is observed by Sir W. J. Hooker, has 
been cultivated for years in the Hdinburgh Botanical Gardens, where 
it retains all its characters. 
