DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. " 173 



2 inches long when fully grown. Germen awl-shaped, downy, 

 on a short, thick, likewise downy, stalk. Style smooth, longer 

 than the stigmas, permanent like them. Caps, ovate-lanceolate, 

 silky, of 2 recurved, light-brown valves. Seed obovate, polished, 

 with a copious woolly crown. 

 The young buds are tipped with a small tuft of deciduous down, 

 as remarked by Linnaeus, who in his Fl. Lapp, justly distin- 

 guished this Willow from his phylicifolia. It ought rather per- 

 haps to be placed near .S'. Forsteriana, n. b7 , and its allies, the 

 leaves being seldom perfectly smooth on both sides. The sup- 

 posed fertile plant, indicated in the Linnsean Transactions, is, 

 at best, very doubtful, and I have not adverted to it in the above 

 description. S. nigricans is of no known economical use. 

 Whatever Wahlenberg may intend under this name, t. 1053 of 

 Fl. Dan., cannot be our plant, for which Engl. Bot. is the ori- 

 ginal authority. 



7. S. phylicifolia. Tea-leaved Willow. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, with wavy serratures, very smooth ; 

 glaucous beneath. Stipulas glandular on the inside. 

 Germen lanceolate, stalked, silky. Style twice the length 

 of the stigmas. Branches trailing. 



S. phylicifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 1442, a Fl. Lapp. n. 351. t.8.f. d. 

 Willd.v.A.&5^. Fl.Br.\049. Engl. Bot. v. 28. t. \9b8. Tr. of 

 L. Soc.i'.e. 123. Wahlenb. Lapp. 270. t. \7.f. 2 ? 



S. radicans. Fl. Br. 1053. Willd. v. 4. 6/6. Hook. Scot. 280. 



In the Highlands of Scotland. 



At Finlarig, Breadalbane. Rev. Dr. Stuart, in Light/oofs Herba- 

 rium. 



Shrub. Mat/. 



A low, spreading, smooth bush, whose long, recumbent, brown 

 or purplish, branches take root as they extend in every direc- 

 tion. Leaves on shortish stalks, not much spreading, about 2 

 inches long, not 1 broad ; very acute at the point ; not at all 

 rounded at the base ; smooth at all times, except an obscure 

 downiness on the mid-rib above ; harsh to the touch, bitter, 

 variously crenate or serrated, the serratures peculiarly, and 

 sometimes very remarkably, undulated ; the upper side of a dark 

 shining green ; under glaucous. Stipulas half-ovate, inclining 

 to lunate, small, glandular at the inside towards the base. Ca^- 

 kins from small lateral branches, accompanied by 2 or 3 small 

 bracteas rather than leaves, terminal, solitary j the fertile ones, 

 which alone 1 have seen, all over hoary, with fine dense silky 

 hairs. Scales linear-oblong, obtuse. Nectary single, abrupt. 

 Germen lanceolate, or almost awl-shaped, on a stalk about a 

 third its own length, and half as long as the scale. Style smooth^, 

 except at the base, about as long as the notched, spreading. 



