212 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



ing, branches, are ready off-hand marks, and the stalk of its 

 germen is longer. 

 There is a mistake in Engl. Bot. as to the time of flowering of 

 S. prostrata. 



46. S. mcubacea. Trailing Silky Willow. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, pointed, straight, nearly entire : 

 convex and smooth above, with prominent reticulated 

 veins ; glaucous and silky beneath. Stem recumbent. 

 Catkins ovate-oblong. Stalks of the silky germ ens longer 

 than the scales. Capsules smooth. 



S. incubacea. Linn. Sp. PL 1447. Fl. Suec. erf. 2. 351. fVilld. 

 V.4. 696. 



S. angustifolia. TVulf. in Jacq. Coll. v. 3. 48. 



S. pumila angustifolia prima. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 85./. 86. 



S. pumila angustifolia, prona parte cinerea. Bauh. Hist. vA.p. 2. 

 213./. 214. 



S. pumila altera. Dod. Pempt. S44./. 



Chamseitea, sive Salix pumila. Ger. Em. 1391./ 



In sandy meadows, especially near the sea. 



At Hopton, Suffolk. Mr.E.Forster. 



Shrub. Maij. 



Root woody, long and creeping. Stems reclining or prostrate, 

 about 2 feet in length, round, dark brown, sending off numerous 

 crowded branches, mostly towards the end of each principal one, 

 which are copiously leafy, downy, or partly silky, accompanied 

 by short flowering shoots, intermixed or alternate with them. 

 Leaves on shortish downy stalks, elliptic-lanceolate, very various 

 in breadth, from 1 inch to 1|- long, slightly revolute and some- 

 what pointed, either quite entire, or here and there notched j 

 the upper side convex, dark green, at first minutely downy 

 with close hairs, but soon becoming very smooth and polished, 

 remarkable for its prominent veins, which meet towards the 

 margin in strong, rectangular network, much more conspicuous 

 than in any other of this tribe, and common to all the varieties, 

 however different in length or breadth of leaf j the under side is 

 concave, glaucous, very silky at an early period, finally nearly 

 smooth, the midrib chiefly prominent. Stipulas small, ovate, 

 acute, rarely present. Catkins earlier than the foliage, lateral, 

 either sessile, or on short bracteated stalks, ovate-oblong, or 

 shortly cylindrical. Scales small, obovate, blackish, bearded. 

 Germ, on a silky stalk, which is equal in length to the scales, or 

 longer; ovate-lanceolate, silky, with a small slender 5i!z//e, about 

 as long as the thick, divided, reddish stigmas. Caps, finally light 

 brown, nearly or quite smooth. 



The principal diagnostic of this species, in which all our Swiss, 



