DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 193 



Dickson appears to have sent the latter to Mr. Crowe formerly, 

 we know not from whence. 



Shrub. Jpril, May. 



Stem bushy, usually 4 or 5 feet high, with many stout, irregularly 

 spreading, smooth, leafy, brittle, brownish-yellow branches, of 

 no value for any economical use hitherto discovered. Leaves 

 alternate, perfectly smooth, on broadish smooth footstalks, uni- 

 formly elliptical, very rarely inclining to obovate, l-i- inch long, 

 more or less ; acute, and often recurved, at the extremity ; 

 contracted gradually at the base ; the margin copiously though 

 not conspicuously, serrated, or rather crenate ; the upper side 

 of a deep shining green ; under glaucous, veiny. Stipulas, if 

 present, half-heartshaped, rounded, crenate, coloured like the 

 leaves. Catkins before the leaves, about an inch long, thickish 

 and obtuse, or elliptic-oblong, almost sessile, with 2 very small 

 Jloral leaves ; the barren ones bright yellow, and remarkably 

 ornamental, when young. Scales elliptic-oblong, black in their 

 upper half, hairy. Filam. much longer than the scales, white, 

 capillary, partially combined, or monadelphous, sometimes at 

 the bottom only, sometimes for half or three-fourths of their 

 length, occasionally unequal. Anth. orange-coloured, of 2 cells. 

 Germ, sessile, lanceolate, silky. Caps, ovate, tapering, downy, 

 tipped with the permanent style and stigmas, the former of con- 

 siderable length j the latter ovate, obtuse, long remaining un- 

 divided, though finally cloven. 



When covered with barren blossoms, this Salix is among the most 

 handsome, nor are the leaves destitute of beauty. It has no 

 other value, except to commemorate an ardent and very accurate 

 botanist, whose name is also perpetuated in the beautiful Crowea 

 saligna of New South Wales. 



27. '&. prunifolia. Plum-leaved Willow. 



Leaves broadly ovate, serrated, smooth on both sides ; even 

 above ; glaucous beneath. Stem erect, much branched. 

 Capsules ovate, shaggy, like the scales, with silky hairs. 



S. prunifolia. Fl. Br. 1054. Engl. Bot. u. 19. M361 . Reess Cycl. 

 W.55. fVilld.Sp.Pl.v.4.677. 



S. myrsinites. Lightf. 599. Herb. Lightf. 



On the Highland mountains of Scotland, frequent. 



Shrub. Jpril, May. 



A bushy shrub, often 3 feet high, with spreading branches, the 

 whole erect, or ascending, not decumbent. Young branches 

 brown, bearing a little short, soft, curved down, not rigid pro- 

 minent hairs as in the true myrsinites. Leaves broadly ovate, 

 tolerably uniform, an inch long or rather more, bluntly pointed, 

 serrated thoughout, but not deeply ; quite smooth, even, of a 

 full shining green, on the upper surface, without any prominent 



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