DIOECIA-DIANDRIA. Salix. 201 



Dicks. Dr. PL 44. Hook. Scot. 283. Fl. Dan. t. 212. Hoffm. 

 Sal. v.2,S. t.25—27. Wahlenb. Lapp. 262. 



S. n. 1650. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 309. 



S. pumila, folio rotundo. Bauh. Hist.v.l. p.2.2\7 .f. RaiiSyn. 449. 



On the loftiest mountains of Yorkshire, Wales and Scotland. 



Upon Ingleborough and Whern-side, Yorkshire ; T. Willisell. Raij. 

 On the tops of the highest mountains of North Wales. Ray. On 

 many of the Highland mountains, in a micaceous soil. Light- 

 foot. 



Shrub. June. 



Larger than the last, with stout, woody, procumbent stems and 

 branches, either mantling the Alpine rocks, or spreading on the 

 ground, in large patches. Leaves 3 from each bud^ on long 

 slender footstalks, without stipulas, alternate, nearly orbicular, 

 or somewhat elliptical, an inch broad^ firm, coriaceous, though 

 deciduous, entire, with an occasional notch at the end ; the 

 upper surface wrinkled, of a deep shining green ; under very 

 glaucous, or whitish, beautifully reticulated with abundance of pro- 

 minent veins, now and then somewhat silky, but I have not seen 

 them so in British specimens, except perhaps when very young. 

 The summit of each footstalk is often bearded with silky hairs. 

 Catkins solitary at the end of the same branch, above the leaves, 

 each on a simple, often downy, leafless stalk, longer than the 

 footstalks, exactly cylindrical, obtuse, reddish, dense, many- 

 flowered, about an inch long, with obovate, partly woolly, 

 scales. Stam. 2, distinct, twice /he length of the scales, with an 

 awl-shaped nectary at their base. Germ, ovate, often curved, 

 sessile, downy ; sometimes, if not always, with a nectary of 4 

 club-shaped glands at its base. Hofi'mann represents a single 

 gland only, and it is possible the 4 glands drawn in Engl.Bot. 

 may be accidental. Stigmas nearly sessile, deeply divided. 

 Caps, ovate, tumid, brown, downy or cottony, twice as long 

 as the close-pressed, permanent scale. 



A most elegant little Willow, which, as Dr. Wahlenberg remarks, 

 seems scarcely related to any other. Yet the spreading woody 

 roots, dwari stems, round veiny leaves, and terminal long-stalked 

 catkins, coming after the foliage, from the same bud, and unat- 

 tended hyjloral-leaves, accord singularly with S. herbacea ; to 

 which the plant before us, however widely and essentially distinct 

 as a species, is evidently akin. S. p.olaris, Wahlenb. Lapp. 261 . 

 L 13./. 1, belongs to the same tribe. 



*** Leaves all shaggy/, vooolly, or silky. 



37. ^. glauca. Glaucous Mountain Willow. 



Leaves nearly entire, elliptic-lanceolate ; even and nearly 

 smooth above ; woolly and snow-white beneath. Foot- 

 stalks decurrent, Gernien sessile, ovate, woolly. 



