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which the catkin is produced; stalk of the catkin pilose, } to } inch 
long. Flowers 3 to 12 in the female catkins. The capsule is very 
shortly stalked, often tinged with purple; style shorter than the 
stigmas, which are recurved. The male catkins I have not seen in a 
recent state; the anthers are described by Dr. Arnott as yellow or 
brown when empty, by Wimmer as sometimes violet, sometimes golden. 
Least Willow. 
French, Saule herbacé. German, Krautartige Weide. 
SPECIES XXXIV.-SALIX RETICULATA. Lin, 
Prare MCCCLXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DLVILI. Fig. 1184. 
Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 129. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1908. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 
900. Hook. in Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 861. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 405. 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 316. 
“ Chamitia reticulata, Kerner,” test. Wimm. Lc. 
Stems mostly buried, rooting ; branches short, ascending, some of 
the main ones (apparently) terminating in a peduncle. Leaves few, 
subcoriaceous, oval or suborbicular or obovate, rounded at the base 
(rarely wedgeshaped or subcordate), rounded or retuse at the apex, 
entire or repand, dark dull green, glabrous or subglabrous rugose 
above, from the veins being impressed, glabrous and hoary and with 
elevated reticulated yellowish veins beneath. Stipules absent or rudi- 
mentary. Bud-scales often persistent. Catkins opening after the leaf- 
buds, on rather long leafless peduncles apparently terminating some of 
the main branches, slender, oblong-cylindrical, short, many-flowered ; 
catkin-scales oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, rounded or trun- 
cate, often purplish, at length brown. Stamens 2; filaments free, 
glabrous. Capsule ovate-conical, acuminate, hoary, tomentose, sub- 
sessile; style very short; stigmas oblong, notched, or 2-cleft. Young 
branches glabrous; young leaves pilose with very deciduous hairs ; 
buds pubescent, very soon glabrous. 
On dry rocky ledges and mountains, especially those composed of 
mica-slate. Local. Abundant in the Breadalbane and Clova Mountains; 
sn Aberdeenshire it is known to grow only in Glen Callater; reported 
to have been found by Dr. Graham on Ben Hope, Sutherland ; stated 
to oceur in the counties of Carnarvon, York, Westmoreland, and 
Cumberland, but erroneously, as S. herbacea was the plant meant by 
the older botanists. 
Scotland. Shrub. Summer, Autumn. 
A handsome shrub, very similar in its mode of growth to S. 
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