210 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



distinct, twice the length of their scale. Germ, ovate, downy, 

 stalked. Style shorter than the thick divided stigmas. Caps. 

 elongated and tapering, finally smooth, brown, tipped, for a 

 while only, with thtunalteied style and stigmas; its siaZA: elon- 

 gated, so as to equal the scale, but still always more or less 

 downy. 

 The long-stalked, very downy, bluntish germen, and short style, 

 contrasted with the sessile germen of S.fusca tapering into a 

 longish style, clearly distinguish these two very similar species, 

 which have often too heedlessly been confounded. A wrong 

 fertile plant, sent for S.fusca, gave rise to an erroneous descrip- 

 tion in Fl. Brit, corrected in Engl.Bot. 1960. 



44. S./usca. Brownish Dwarf Willow. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, acute, straight, flat, with a few 

 glandular teeth ; glaucous and silky beneath. Stipulas 

 none. Stem erect, much branched. Germen sessile, 

 nearly smooth, tapering into an elongated style. 



S. fusca. Linn. Sp. PL 1447. FL Suec. ed. 2.351. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 

 299. t.S.f.r; omitting the syn. of Ray. Willd.v. 4.694. Fl.Br. 

 i060. EngLBot.v. 2%. L\960. Hoffm. SaL v. 2.14. L28, 29. 

 Wulf. in Jacq. ColL v. 2.200 j but not Jacq. FL Austr. t. 409. 



S. humilis alpina, MyrtiTarentini folio. Rudb. in Act. Suec. 1720. 

 100. 



On moist mountainous heaths in the north. 



Shrub. May. 



Stem bushy, erect, copiously branched, densely leafy, from 6 to 12 

 inches high ; the branches spreading, brown ; downy, with fine 

 close hairs, when young. Footstalks longer and more slender 

 than in the last, though dilated at the base. Leaves an inch, 

 more or less, in length, elliptic-oblong, straight and nearly flat, 

 rather acute, not revolute, the margin quite entire, though beset 

 with distant glandular teeth, most conspicuous in the older ones ; 

 upper side dark green, nearly or quite smooth ; under glaucous, 

 and, till the leaves are far advanced, silky, with close dense hairs ; 

 both sides reticulated with veins. Buds large, ovate, downy, 

 red and shining. The whole of the foliage becomes blackish 

 when dried. Catkins generally before the leaves, numerous, 

 on short bracteated stalks, ovate, short. Scales dark brown, 

 obovate, hairy. iVeci. a brown, oblong, papillary gland. Stam. 

 full twice as long as the scale. Germ, according to Hoffmann, 

 who first gave a figure of it, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, dark pur- 

 ple, either quite smooth, or here and there a little downy, taper- 

 ing at the summit into a longish style, with cloven stigmas. 



Hoffmann's plant appears to be our's, except that he does not men- 

 tion the glaucous backs of the leaves. S.fusca is totally unlike 

 argentea, with which Willdenow compares it. 



