176 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



Brought from Scotland, and cultivated, like the preceding, by the 

 late Mr. G. Anderson. Mr. W. Boner. 



Shrub. May. 



About 6 feet high, bushy, with upright, smooth, brown branches. 

 Leaves about an inch and half long, broadest above the middle, 

 sharp-pointed, bordered with shallow serratures, or minute 

 glandular teeth ; tapering at the base ; smooth, except a slight 

 downiness on the midrib of the youngest ; their veins reticu- 

 lated at right angles. Siipulas scarcely ever discernible. Foot- 

 stalks slender, downy on their upper side ; slightly dilated at 

 the base. Fertile catkins rather earlier than the leaves, on 

 short, lateral, leafless stalks ; the main stalk of each, as wrell as 

 the small, rounded, though variable, scales, the stalks of the 

 germens, and the germens themselves, all more or less silky, 

 not hairy, the latter in a Swiss specimen nearly smooth. They 

 are always lanceolate, moderately stalked, each with a smooth 

 style, full as long as the blunt, deeply divided, stigmas. Cap- 

 sules lanceolate, smooth, or somewhat silky. Seeds few, with 

 long, not very copious, down. The barren plant I have not 

 seen. 



My late friend Mr. Davall sent a specimen of this Salix from 

 Switzerland in 1790, which, when shown to Prof. Mertens, was 

 pronounced by the latter to be S.phylicifolia of Willdenow and 

 other German botanists. It is not however that of Linnaeus, 

 nor apparently of Wahlenberg. A plant brought from Scotland, 

 and seen by the same able botanist in Mr. Borrer's garden, 

 received from him the same appellation. This agrees with the 

 original Swiss specimen, except that the germens, and indeed 

 all parts of the catkins, are much more silky ; a character which 

 often proves variable. Possibly Fl. Dan. 1. 1052 may represent 

 this Willow, but it is not sufficiently like, in the outline of the 

 leaves, to be taken for it. At any rate, this species deserves to 

 be recorded, as admitted, on all hands, to be distinct, by the 

 meritorious name of its earliest discoverer. S. appendiculata 

 of Villars, t. 50./. 19, is evidently very different, though cited 

 by Willdenow. 



11. S. rFtilfe?iiafia. WuUemsinWiWow. 



Leaves obovate or elliptical, somewhat pointed, finely 

 serrated, smooth ; glaucous beneath. Catkins dense, 

 with hairy scales, longer than the stalks of the awl- 

 shaped germens. Style longer than the stigmas. 



S. Wulfeniana. Willd. Sp.Pl. v. 4. 660. Sm. in Rees's Cycl. n. 16. 



S. phylicifolia. Host. Syn. 526. Wulf. in Jacq. Coll. v. 2. 139 ; ex- 

 clusive of the references to Linnceus. 



In valleys among the Highlands of Scotland, and in Westmore- 

 land. 



