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peduncles. “ Nectary of 2 pieces” [one between the catkin-scale and 
the germen, the other opposite to it]. Stamens 2. 
Small alpine shrubs, with glabrous or pubescent leaves, and the 
bark of the older stems commonly breaking off in flakes. 
Group I.—FRIGIDZ. Fes. 
Small shrubs, with the main stems and branches exposed; main 
branches terminating in a barren shoot; flowering branches lateral. 
Catkin-scales coloured, subscarious. 
SPECIES XXX SALIX ARBUSCUL A, Tinn. 
Pirates MCCCLXXI.—MCCCLXXVI. 
Rech. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tabs. DLXI. DLXII. Figs. 1196 to 2000, and 
DLXVI. Fig. 2006. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1962. 
Wimmer, Sal. Europ. p. 102. Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 145. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fi. 
ed. viii. p. 411. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 314. 
Stems exposed, decumbent or erect; main branches terminating in a 
barren shoot. Leaves firm, flat or recurved, elliptical or oval and acute, 
or obovate and acuminate, serrulate, bright green, glabrous, shining, 
with slightly elevated veins above, more or less glaucous and very spar- 
ingly hairy with adpressed hairs beneath, at length usually glabrous. 
Stipules generally absent or very minute and ovate. Catkins opening 
at the same time as the leaf-buds, at the apex of numerous short 
leafless or leafy lateral shoots, not confined to the termination of the 
branches, but arranged along them, slender, cylindrical. Catkin-scales 
oblong-obovate, obtuse, embracing the base of the capsule, brown, 
very thickly and shortly pilose. Stamens 2; filaments free, glabrous. 
Capsule ovate-conical, tomentose, subsessile; style elongated, deeply 
cleft; stigmas thick, 2-cleft. Young branches downy, rarely sub- 
glabrous; young leaves silky pilose, at least on the underside. 
Var. a, carinata. 
Prats MCCCLXXI. 
S. carinata, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1363, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 197. Hook. 
Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 372. 
Suberect. Leaves broadly elliptical, folded into a keel and 
recurved, denticulate, underside slightly glaucous, veins slightly 
prominent. 
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