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shining, with elevated veins above, green beneath, where they are 
more or less hairy on the veins. Stipules absent (?). Catkins opening 
at the same time as the leaf-buds or after them, at the apex of 
numerous leafy lateral shoots arranged along the branches, rather 
slender, oblong-ovoid, short, few-flowered. Catkin-scales oblong- 
oblanceolate, obtuse, olive, pilose. Stamens unknown. Capsule 
lanceolate-conical, glabrous, on a silky-hairy stalk, longer than the 
nectary ; style long; stigmas rather slender, 2-cleft. Young branches 
thinly woolly; young leaves slightly pilose. 
At Frouvyn, Sutherlandshire; found by the late Dr. Graham. 
Scotland. Shrub. Early Summer. (?) 
Of this plant I have seen only one wild specimen, in Mr. Borrer’s 
herbarium, and a few from his garden. In Mr. Watson’s herbarium 
there are specimens from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. The 
growth of the plant is more like that of S. phylicifolia or 5. nigricans 
than of any of the present group, but in the catkins and texture 
of the leaves it eee nearly to S. herbacea, between which and 
S. phylicifolia or S. nigricans I suspect it to be a hybrid. 
Stems (in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden plant) exposed, 1 to 3 feet 
long, ascending. Leaves, when full-grown, 1 to 13 inch long, much 
less orbicular than in S. herbacea, and disposed all along the elongate 
barren, and short fertile branches. Catkins few-flowered, about } inch 
long, on a short glabrous peduncle, bare of flowers at its base. Catkin- 
scales similar to those of S. Myrsinites, not subpellucid as in 8. her- 
bacea. The stalk of the capsule is silky-hairy in 8. Grahami: in S$. 
herbacea it is glabrous; the style is also longer in the present plant. 
It has been compared with 8. polaris of Wahlenberg, which has a 
hairy capsule, but the mode of growth of that plant is precisely like 
that of S. herbacea, and quite different from that of S. Grahami. 
Dr. Walker-Arnott, I suppose, speaks of S. Grahami as the willow 
which resembles S. retusa, but I can see no resemblance to that species. 
Graham’s Willow. 
Group.—GLACIALIS. Koch. 
Very small shrubs, with the main stems buried in the soil, the 
branches only exposed; main branches “terminating in a pedun- 
cle” (?), or in an undeveloped bud with a peduncle at its side. 
Catkin-scales scarious, coloured, and subpellucid. 
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