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a single bush only, which is now eradicated. More recently it has been 
met with by Mr. Mudd in Airyholme Wood, and in two or three places 
by the Leven side near Great Ayton, but only in very small quantities 
in each station.” (Baker, “ North Yorkshire.”) 
England (?). Tree. Early Spring. 
A tree rarely above 10 or 12 feet high, much branched, with slender 
' virgate and frequently drooping branches. Leaves 3 to 6 inches long, 
very similar in shape to those of 8. undulata, but more acute and not 
so firm in texture, quite glabrous. Stipules callous-serrate. Male 
catkins 1 to 1} inch long, very thick and very densely silky from the 
long hairs which adorn the black pointed catkin-scales. The female 
catkins I have not seen. 
Wimmer appears to consider this a species originally from Eastern 
Europe or Asia. 
Violet Willow. 
German, Spitzblittrige Weide. 
SPECIES XXVII—SALIX LANATA. Linn. 
Prats MCCCLXVILI. 
Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 2. Hook. in Engl. Bot. Suppl. No. 2624. Sm. Engl. Fi. 
Vol. IV. p. 205. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 4138. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 
ed. vi, p. 315. 
Leaves oval or suborbicular or elliptical-obovate, rounded or subcor- 
date at the base, abruptly pointed or very shortly acuminate, entire or 
repand, grey with woolly hairs above, glaucous and pilose on the veins 
beneath, reticulate-veined when dry. Stipules generally present, large, 
obliquely ovate, half-cordate, subacute, deciduous. Catkins appearing 
with the young leaves, sessile near the extremities of the branches, 
with a few subfoliaceous bracts at the base, cylindrical, very long, 
dense. Catkin-scales oblong, obtuse, very densely pilose with very 
Jong straight golden hairs turning to white. Stamens 2; filaments 
free, glabrous. Capsule conical-subulate, subcompressed, glabrous, on 
a stalk not exceeding the nectary in length; style long, exceeding the 
stigmas; stigmas oblong, notched or 2-cleft. Young branches and 
buds woolly, soon becoming glabrous ; young leaves woolly on both 
sides, the hairs yellow, soon turning white. 
On wet rocks. Rare. Clova Mountains, Forfarshire; Corrie of 
Loch Keander, Glencallater, Aberdeen ; Maol Cuachlar, 8 miles west of 
Killin, Perth. 
Scotland. Shrub. Late Spring, early Summer. 
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