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SPECIES XXXTI-—-SALIX HE RBACEA, Linn. 
Prare MCCCLXXVIII. , 
Reich, Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLVII. No. 1182. 
Wanm. Sal. Europ. p. 125. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1907, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. 
p- 199. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 473. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 413. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 316. 
Stems buried, rooting; branches short, ascending or erect, some of 
the main ones (apparently) terminating in a peduncle. Leaves few, 
rather rigid, flat, suborbicular or broadly-oval, rounded or subcordate 
at the base, obtuse or retuse at the apex, crenate-serrate or serrate, 
green, glabrous, shining, and with strongly elevated reticulated veins 
on both surfaces. Stipules absent or minute, ovate. Bud-scales 
sometimes persistent. Catkins opening after the leaf-buds, on very 
short leafless peduncles apparently terminating some of the main 
branches, rather slender, oblong-ovoid, short, few-flowered; catkin- 
scales oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse, yellowish-olive, or 
purplish, subglabrous, ciliated and sometimes pilose within on the 
inside. Stamens 2; filaments free, glabrous. Capsule lanceolate- 
conical, on a glabrous (rarely slightly silky-hairy) stalk shorter than 
the nectary ; style short; stigmas rather slender, 2-cleft. Young 
branches pubescent; under side of the midrib of the leaves sparingly 
pilose, soon glabrous; buds glabrous. 
On the tops of high mountains; on the Beacon of Breckon, Snow- 
don, the mountains of the north of England and south of Scotland. 
Very plentiful on most of the Highland mountains, from 2,500 to 3,000 
feet. The lowest elevation at which it is known to occur in Scotland 
is on Hoy Hill, Orkney, the height of which is, I believe, under 
1,600 feet. Local, but widely distributed in Ireland, and descending 
as low as 1,200 feet. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A very small plant, the greater part of it buried in the barren 
rocky débris in which it grows, and in which the stems often ramily 
for some distance; the exposed part of the branches from 1 to 3 inches 
long, each with 2 to 6 leaves on each twig. Leaves on very short 
petioles, } to 1 inch long, deep green, beautifully marked with a net- 
work of veins, and generally marked with minute white points. The 
branches which terminate in peduncles are similar to the others, but 
the peduncle is not truly terminal, as there is a bud in the axil of the 
uppermost leaf, which represents the real direct prolongation of the 
branch, but this bud is not developed till the year succeeding that in 
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