DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 209 



They are, however, well-marked varieties, variable in their sti- 

 pukis, and in the margins of their leaves being more or less per- 

 fectly entire. They are both distinguishable from every other 

 Willow, known to me, by a most nauseous scent, like that of 

 some fresh-water fish, or certain aquatic herbs, or Sponges. 

 This odour becomes powerfully oflensive, when fresh specimens 

 have been confined for 2 or 3 days in a tin box. Neither of 

 the original names being very suitable, nor either of them appli- 

 cable to both varieties, I have preferred one which, though not 

 admissible into an essential character, will ever readily assist in 

 determining the S./ceiida from all its allies. 



43. S. repens. Common Dwarf Willow. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, straight, somewhat pointed, nearly 

 entire ; almost naked above ; glaucous and silky beneath. 

 Stipulas none. Stem depressed, with short upright 

 branches. Germen stalked, ovate, downy. Capsules 

 smooth. 



S. repens. Linn. Sp. PI. 1447. mild. v. 4. 693. Fl. Br. 1061. 



Engl. Bof. V. 3. f. 183. kees's Cycl. n. 100. 

 S. depressa. Hoffm. Sal. v. 1. 63. t.l5,\ 6. Sibth. 1 6. 

 S. n. 1644. Hall. Hist. v. 2.307 ; according to the son of the 



author, 

 S. pumila angustifolia, prona parte cinerea. Raii Syn. 447 ; with 



doubtful synonyms. 

 S. humilis repens. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 138./; good. Ger. Em. 1391 ./• 



same as that of Clusius. 

 S. pumila angustifolia secunda. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 86./. 



On sandy mountainous heaths, where the ground is rather moist, 

 very common. 



Shrub. May. 



Stem woody, depressed, often creeping, sending up numerous up- 

 right branches, about a finger's length, sometimes subdivided 

 and spreading, sometimes procumbent and moderately elon- 

 gated ; all round and smooth, except the small leafy shoots of 

 the present year, which are downy. Leaves small, from | to 4 

 of an inch long, elliptical, or broadly lanceolate, somewhat re- 

 volute, nearly or quite entire, veiny, bluntish, with a minute 

 straight point ; the upper surface dark-green, smooth ; under 

 glaucous, densely silky when young. Footstalks short and broad, 

 frequently downy. Stipulas none. Catkins before the leaves, 

 numerous, scattered, short, sessile, or nearly so, erect, with 

 a few small ovate bracteas, most plentiful under the fertile ones ; 

 which are rather larger than the others, and finally almost an 

 inch long. Scales of both obovate, brown, fringed or slightly 

 hairy, deciduous. Nect. a green oblong gland. Stam. 2, smooth, 



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